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 07 CANTO 06

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देवो न यः पृथिवीं विश्वधाया उपक्षेति हितमित्रो न राजा ।
पुरःसदः शर्मसदो न वीरा अनवद्या पतिजुष्टेव नारी॥३॥

1
He is like a God upholding the world and he inhabits earth like a good and friendly king : he is like a company of heroes sitting in our front, dwelling in our house ; he is as if a blameless wife beloved of her lord.

Rig Veda 1.73.3
Translation by Sri Aurobindo
SABCL Vol 11, p 64.

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मातेव यद् भरसे पप्रथानो जनंजनं धायसे चक्षसे च ।
वयोवयो जरसे यद् दधानः परि त्मना विषुरूपो जिगासि॥४॥

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When growing wide thou bearest like a mother birth after birth for firm foundation, for vision, when thou holdest and wearest out manifestation after manifestation, taking many forms thou encompassest all things with thyself.

Rig Veda 5.15.4
Translation by Sri Aurobindo
SABCL Vol 11, p 228.

RECITATIONS BY THE MOTHER

SAVITRI BOOK 07 CANTO 06

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LINES
035 Above the cherished head of Satyavan
036 She saw not now Fate’s dark and lethal orb;
037 A golden circle round a mystic sun
038 Disclosed to her new-born predicting sight
039 The cyclic rondure of a sovereign life.

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LINES
607 Unutterably effaced, no one and null,
608 A vanishing vestige like a violet trace,
609 A faint record merely of a self now past,
610 She was a point in the unknowable.