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
Days rolled on. The course in flower arrangement was over.
It was a fine sunny day, 2nd September 1959. Aravinda Basu, his son Sudipta (Sabi) and I left London for Durham. We started from King's Cross station. Aravinda and Babi took me round. What I learnt about Durham was as follows:
The Bishop of Durham used to be Prince Bishop, because he was responsible for the political, military and religious affairs of the County Palatinate. Durham used to be a stronghold of the English against the invading Scots. It is two and a half hours from Edinburgh. The Bishop had a castle in the city which is the capital of County Durham. His See is the third most important in the Church of England—that is, after the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York. His castle has been given over to the University of Durham, which is now renamed University College. He has now a castle which is his residence in Bishop Auckland, about twenty miles from Durham. Durham University is the third oldest in England after Oxford and Cambridge, and like them it is residential. As is to be expected, this University has a very good and strong School of Theology.
The University of Durham at the time I visited it in September 1959 had two branches—one in Durham and the other in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. In fact, the Durham division was called Durham College. Both divisions were autonomous and the head of one was called The Warden and the head of the other, the Provost. Each became Vice-Chancellor by rotation. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is now a separate University.
The then Warden of the Durham section, Sir James Duff, a very well-known educationist in Great Britain, was a member of the University Education Commission appointed by the Government of India, of which Prof. S. Radhakrishnan was the Chairman.
Aravinda Basu had been there since 1953 as Spalding Lecturer in Indian Philosophy and Religion in the School of Oriental Studies in the Durham College. He organised the Section of Indian Studies there. He had gone there with the Mother's approval and blessings. While I was visiting the School of Oriental Studies in Durham, Aravinda took me to the Indian Section of the Library in the School, showed me around and pointed out many valuable and rare Sanskrit books including the first printed Edition of the Rigveda published by Max Muller. The Indian Section was quite well-equipped and was expanding, I was fascinated to see the books in the Section of Egyptology—some of them were so huge that they could only be lifted by four persons!
Babi took me to several places. The most striking were the Castle and the Cathedral.
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