My Savitri work with the Mother

07 February 1957

I received a letter from the Mother, dated 7th February 1957:

7.2.57

Bonjour
To My dear little child,
To my sweet Huta

I have received your nice letter. Yes, we are going towards a painting that will be able to express the supramental truth of things.

My love and blessings and the Presence of the Divine Grace are always with you.

That same evening she explained to me:

I want you to do something new You must try to do the Future Painting in the New Light.

There is a reason why I always ask you to paint mostly on a white background. It is an attempt to express the Divine Light without shadow in the Future Painting. But everything will come in its own time.

In the Future Painting, you must not copy blindly the outer appearance without the inner vision. Never let people's ideas influence your mind and impose their advice about the Future Painting. Do not try to adopt the technique either of modern art or of old classical art. But always try to express the true inner vision of your soul and its deep impression behind everything to bring out the Eternal Truth and to express the glory of the Higher Worlds.

Truth is behind everything. For the Divine dwells in flowers, trees, animals, birds, and rivers as well as human beings—in fact, in every creation of Nature.

You must have the psychic touch to see and feel the vibrations, the sensations and the essence of the Truth in everything and that Truth is to be expressed in the Future Painting.

To paint perfectly is not an easy thing. It certainly takes time. But by the growth of consciousness you can have inspiration, intense vision, delicacy of colours, harmony and subtlety of true beauty. Then you can surely express wonderful things in painting. Otherwise painting will be a lifeless confusion.

The growth of consciousness is essential for doing marvellous paintings. I shall help you, I shall put my Force into you so that there will be a link between our two consciousnesses.

I asked the Mother: "Without seeing the Divine Light, how can I paint?" She laughed softly and said:

Child, it will come.

Now it was apparent that I had to learn numerous things from various angles in painting to step into the unknown domain of the secret and higher worlds where I could release lavishly, freely, my imaginations, reveries and inspirations to express exactly what the Mother wished me to do.

The play of colour—balanced distribution of light and shadow to bring out the perfect harmony of colour—the subtle infusion of light, the transcendent spontaneity, the magical changes of Nature—the Supreme Colourist's realism and visions—all these I had to put on canvases with vibrant, various strokes of brushes.

I was perfectly aware that it was not going to be easy, but life now beckoned me along strange paths which I must tread. There was no turning back since I had committed myself to the spiritual life and the higher artistic sphere.

The Mother has stated:

If you want art to be true and highest art, it must be the expression of a Divine World brought down into this material world.

She valued true feeling and right consciousness more than only precise and decorative work without vibrations and vividness. She put stress on "White Light without shadow". It is the vibration of Light which alone can give life and colour to every scene painted.

The Mother gave a proper training to my hands. In 1956 she asked me, as I have stated already, to clean the inside of her two carved cupboards which are in the Meditation Hall upstairs, so that I might learn to hold the most precious, delicate and fragile objects with steadiness, great care and concentration. She made my hands conscious, receptive and sensitive by putting her Force, Light and Consciousness into them. She also sent me thousands of the most exquisite picture-cards, so that I might perceive and grasp their beauties and obtain inspiration from Nature: trees, flowers, mountains, rivers, animals and so on. These cards were prepared by Champaklal. He used to paste the pictures on folders, on which the Mother wrote to me.

Surely the Mother did not take up the Savitri work abruptly. She educated me both outwardly and inwardly, knowing that these types of paintings were not of the common kind. This training went on for years with patience and perseverance. Nobody knew of it!

There was in me an overwhelming disappointment, a sense of disillusionment and bitterness. But my soul persisted to go on—no matter how many hideous phases and setbacks I had to face. I would not budge from this life and the work the Mother had entrusted to me. I sent a letter to her about my determination. She responded:

Indeed I am very glad of your resolution, the firmness with which you carried it out and the strength of your will.

I fully agree with your nice letter and appreciate the decision you have taken.

You can rely entirely on the Divine Grace as well as my love and my blessings that will lead you without fail to your goal.