Huta

Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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1 painting collection

"You are my adopted child, I have adopted you and I like to take care of you."

The Mother to Huta, 22 Oct 1956

"Child, we shall express the Supramental Truth through paintings."

The Mother to Huta, 20 Dec, 1957

"Savitri, this prophetic vision of the world's history, including the announcement of the world's future—who can ever dare to put it in pictures?
Yet the Mother and Huta have tried it, this way.
We simply meditate together on the lines chosen, and when the image becomes clear, I describe it with the help of a few strokes, then Huta goes to her studio and brushes the painting.
It is in a meditative mood that these 'meditations' must be looked at, to find the feeling they contain behind their appearance."

The Mother's introduction to 'Meditations on Savitri'

"This means tendresse in French. But it is not 'tenderness'. It is an individual love—it means deep love, sweet care, intensity of compassion.
My child, when I was writing this card for you, I came to know that it is for ages that I have been loving you."

The Mother to Huta, 1 Sep, 1966

"You are the only person in the world to whom I have written so many letters."

The Mother to Huta
(Huta received 8000+ letters & cards from The Mother)

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Huta (Savita Devjibhai Hindocha) (1931, East Africa - 17-11-2011, Pondicherry) was born in East Africa. She was drawn to the Mother even before meeting Her, she joined the Ashram permanently on 10th February 1955 in her late teens and came into close personal contact with the Mother up to the time The Mother left Her body on 17th November 1973. She received the name "Huta" from the Mother, meaning "The Offered One". She has been entrusted by the Mother with a great number of letters, cards, messages, talks, and sketches, also the Mother's recitations of passages from Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri, all tape-recorded by Huta, and corresponding with hundreds of the author's paintings done in the light of the Mother's guidance, the whole project named by the Mother Meditations on Savitri, which contains an unbroken sequence of the The Mother's recitations accompanied by Huta's paintings according to the Mother's comments on Savitri, has also done paintings of selected poems of Sri Aurobindo, has painted many other visionary pictures under the direct instructions of the Mother and has published several books.

The Mother used many sadhaks as instruments for various works; some gave up after a time, but Huta stuck on through all trials and persisted in her efforts to learn how to live the divine life. The Mother had promised her that, "I will teach you not only what is Divine Life but also how to live it so that you will realise in yourself that true divine life."

In March 1967 Huta began the work of expressing some of Sri Aurobindo's poems through paintings. Under the Mother's inspiration and guidance she selected certain passages from the poems and completed fifty-four paintings, which were all shown to the Mother in September of that year. These painting are featured in many of her books.

Huta has done quite a lot of work single-handedly, bringing out many books based on her learning experiences in various fields. In several of her books she tells the story of her life with the Mother - which is indeed the story of a soul.