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
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Thou art pleasing ; more pleasing than all the pleasing things ; thou art exceedingly beautiful. The lofty one beyond the superior and inferior, thou alone art the Supreme Sovereign.
O Soul of all ! Whatever may be a thing, existent or non-existent, the power, śakti, in all those things is myself. How can I praise thee ?
Devimahatmyam 1.81-82
Translation by Sankaranarayan
Glory of the Mother, p 149.
Recitation by The Mother
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Lines
209 I glimpsed the presence of the One in all.
210 But still there lacked the last transcendent power . . .
216 I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
217 And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.
