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.
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On 19th May 1973 I wrote a letter to the Mother.
My dearest Mother
Michel has already started to make the movie of the Savitri paintings with your blessings. According to your instructions he will surely give to the paintings vividness, vibrations and liveliness while filming.
Your own organ-music and your recitations of Savitri passages will have stereophonic sound which will give a superb effect to the movie: Meditations on Savitri.
I pray you to make everything possible and done by your Force and Grace. Victory to the Supreme!
With love and kisses
Yours ever, Huta
She sent blessings packets through M. André.
I gave my introduction in the Savitri movie—Meditations on Savitri, thus:
Savitri is Sri Aurobindo's great epic poem. He says in one of his letters: "Savitri is the record of a seeing, of an experience which is not of the common kind and it is often very far from what the general human mind sees and experiences."
The work of illustrating the whole of Savitri through paintings was given to me by the Divine Mother. It was so great, so beyond the capacity of the little instrument she had summoned that only her Grace working in Sri Aurobindo's Light could have seen me through.
As a matter of fact, when I began I did not know how to draw a straight line or how to hold brushes—nor did I have any colour sense. It is the Divine Mother who taught me painting and truly led me to the highest artistic consciousness.
I remember two of her letters which she wrote to me before we actually started our work of expressing through paintings the visions of Savitri. In the first one she wrote: "We shall collaborate to do nice things and express in painting a higher world and consciousness." And in the second letter she said: "We are going towards a painting that will be able to express the Supramental Truth of things."
Now the work is over and I am ever grateful to the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo for making me their instrument.
"All can be done if the God-touch is there." This is what Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri and how true it is!
I am happy—really happy—to share this splendid gift with everybody in the Mother's Consciousness, Truth and Love.
Huta
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