An account of Huta's sadhana & the grace showered on her by The Mother - especially how Mother prepared her for painting the series: 'Meditations on Savitri'.
The Mother : Contact On Savitri
This book tells the story of how Huta came to the Ashram and began her work with the Mother. It presents a detailed account of how the Mother prepared and encouraged her to learn painting and helped her to create two series of paintings: the 472 pictures comprising Meditations on Savitri and the 116 pictures that accompanied the Mother's comments titled About Savitri. During their meetings, where the Mother revealed her visions for each painting by drawing sketches and explaining which colours should be used, the unique importance of Savitri and the Mother's own experiences connected to the poem come clearly into view. The book is also a representation of Huta's sadhana, her struggles and her progress, and the solicitude and grace showered on her by the Mother.
THEME/S
The year 1957 began. The Message distributed by the Mother ran:
A power greater than that of Evil can alone win the victory. It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save the world
The Mother explained fully its meaning in [Questions and Answers 1957-58, pp. 3-5] (https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/2-january-1957#p23-p26). The last passage is the most striking:
... It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can bring the victory. It is only Delight, a delight which is strength, endurance, supreme courage. The delight brought by the supramental force. It is much more difficult than giving up everything and running away, it asks for an infinitely greater heroism—but that is the only means of conquering.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958): 2 January 1957
The Mother sent me on 1st January 1957 a Japanese card in which there was a painting of an attractive landscape on a bamboo sheet. She wished me:
Bonne Année To My dear little child, to my sweet Huta With all my love
At 10 a.m. I went to the Ashram and sat in the corridor upstairs near the room of Pavitra with some people to listen to the music which the Mother was playing on her old organ.
The Mother has stated about her music in Mother India, May 1960, p. 42:
This music aims at awakening certain profound feelings. To hear it one should make oneself as silent and passive as possible. And if, in the mental silence, a part of the being can take the attitude of the witness who observes without reacting or participating, then one can take account of the effect which the music produces on the feelings and emotions; and if it produces a state of deep calm and semi-trance, then that is quite good
Sri Aurobindo has written about the Mother's music in the Centenary Edition, Vol. 25:
It is not necessary to have technical knowledge in order to feel what is behind the music. Mother, of course, does not play for the sake of a technical musical effect, but to bring down something from the higher planes and that anyone can receive who is open.
The Mother's music reminds me of these lines from Savitri:
Immortal harmonies filled her listening ear; A great spontaneous utterance of the heights. ||148.24||
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