From 1965 until 1998 Sunil Bhattacharya composed and orchestrated the New Year Music and the musical accompaniment for the Mother's readings of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. In his compositions he incorporated the chanting of mantras from the Vedas, the Upanishads, and various stavas and stotras. This compilation brings together all these mantras in the original Sanskrit with their transliterations and with the English translations, many of them done by Sri Aurobindo and Nolini Kanta Gupta. The Mother's New Year messages until 1973 and the lines used in subsequent years as prayers in English and French have also been included.
