In 1966,The Mother asked Sunil Bhattacharya to compose the musical accompaniment for Her readings of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. He continued to compose music for Savitri (and for the New Year) till his passing in 1998.
In his compositions for Savitri and for the New Year, Sunilda incorporated chantings of mantras from the Vedas, the Upanishads and various Stavas and Stotras, invoking the diverse Godheads of India. To him, the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were the Supreme as well as all the Goddesses and Gods of Indian mythology. As a result, we often find him replacing the names of the different deities mentioned in the originals with the names of the Mother or Sri Aurobindo.
MANTRAS IN SUNILDA'S SAVITRI MUSIC
SAVITRI BOOK 02 CANTO 11
Eye cannot seize, speech cannot grasp Him, nor these other godheads ; not by austerity can he be held nor by works : only when the inner being is purified by a glad serenity of knowledge, then indeed, meditating, one beholds the Spirit in-divisible.
This self is subtle and has to be known by a thought-mind into which the life-force has made its fivefold entry : all the conscious heart of creatures is shot through and inwoven with the currents of the life-force and only when it is purified can this Self manifest its power.
Whatever world the man whose is purified sheds the light of his mind upon, and whatsoever desires he cherishes, that world he takes by conquest and those desires. Then, let whosoever seeks for success and well-being approach with homage a self-knower.
Mundaka Upanishad 3,1,8.9.10
Translation by Sri Aurobindo
SABCL, Vol 12, pp 282-83.
RECITATION BY THE MOTHER
SAVITRI BOOK 02 CANTO 11
LINES
134 His privilege regained of shadowless sight
135 The Thinker entered the immortals’ air
136 And drank again his pure and mighty source.
