MANTRAS IN SUNILDA'S SAVITRI MUSIC

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 04 CANTO 02

1
ॐ तत् सवितुर्वरं रूपं ज्योतिः परस्य धीमहि ।
यन्नः सत्येन दीपयेत्॥

1
Let us meditate on the most auspicious (best) form of Savitri, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth.

Gayatri Mantra
Translation by Sri Aurobindo
SABCL Vol 26, p 513.

2
ॐ आनंदमयि चैतन्यमयि सत्यमयि परमे॥

2
OM – She, the Delight
She, the Consciousness
She, the Truth
She, the Supreme.

Translation by The Mother
Unpublished.

3
कृष्णं नियानं हरयः सुपर्णा अपो वसाना दिवमुत्पतन्ति ।
त आववृत्रन् त्सदनाद्रतस्यादिद् घृतेन पृथिवी व्युद्यते॥
समानमेतदुदकमुचैत्यव चाहभिः ।
भूमिं पर्जन्या जिन्वन्ति दिवं जिन्वन्त्यग्नयः॥

3
The luminous birds with wings of beauty have clothed themselves with waters and they surge up along a dark path towards the heaven. They have returned from the seat of Truth and in their bright energy lift up the earth to the wideness.

The same waters flow upward and again flow downward, day by day.

The divine showers give life to the earth ; the fires give life to the heaven.

Rig Veda 1.164.47,51.
Translation by Nolini Kanta Gupta
CWNKG Vol 5, pp 138-39.

RECITATION BY THE MOTHER

SAVITRI BOOK 04 CANTO 02
Lines
301 A key to a Light still kept in being’s cave,
302 The sun-word of an ancient mystery’s sense,
303 Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men