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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'.

My Savitri work with the Mother

  The Mother : Contact   On Savitri

Huta
Huta

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.

My Savitri work with the Mother
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 The Mother : Contact  On Savitri

17 November 1961

On 17th November in the morning the Mother made me understand the seventeenth picture:

And Savitri too awoke among these tribes
That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner's chant.... . ||2.1||
A narrow movement on Time's deep abysm,
Life's fragile littleness denied the power,
The proud and conscious wideness and the bliss
She had brought with her into the human form,
The calm delight that weds one soul to all,
The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ||2.7||

The Mother did the sketch and explained the colour-scheme:

Child, when you do the painting of Savitri's portrait, you must see that throughout you have to paint her face the same with, of course, various expressions. It will certainly look odd if you paint Savitri with different features.

I asked her about Savitri's complexion. The Mother said:

Why, fair Indian complexion—ivory—sunny ivory complexion.

I asked her: "What is sunny ivory?"

She leaned a little forward from her high-backed carved chair, touching my arms and said with a sweet smile:

Like your complexion.

Yes, indeed, previously I had a fair complexion but gradually the awful weather, my ill-health, psychological struggles, perpetual attacks of invisible entities, setbacks and hideous difficulties spoiled considerably my skin and long silky dark brown hair. However, the essential thing in life, I believe, is the charm and beauty of the soul.

The painting of Savitri was done, which the Mother admired.

The following morning she gave an insight into the eighteenth picture:

Earth's grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears
Rejected the undying rapture's boon:
Offered to the daughter of infinity
Her passion flower of love and doom she gave. ||2.8||

Here I perceived that Savitri brought the gift of Divine Grace and Divine Love but the Earth rejected it and on her part gave Savitri the opposite.









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