Hitaka(er)

1954 - Ahmednagar, India. Image rendition by Anthony Zois.
1954 - Ahmednagar, India. Image rendition by Anthony Zois.

 

Born : 1912

Died :

 

Japanese

1954, Meherabad, India : Hitaka greeting Meher Baba - Image captured & colourized by Anthony Zois.
1954, Meherabad, India : Hitaka greeting Meher Baba - Image captured & colourized by Anthony Zois.
1954, Meherabad, India : Hitaka greeting Meher Baba - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.
1954, Meherabad, India : Hitaka greeting Meher Baba - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.

1954

 

Baba asked for another Yma Sumac record, and the songs The Dance of the Winds and The Chant of the Chosen Maidens were played. In the midst of one of these, a card was sent inside to Baba which read in part: "If I could see you only for a moment, I would be eternally grateful." It was signed by H. K. Hitaker, a young Japanese man from Tokyo. He came in and, deeply moved, prostrated himself before Baba.

 

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Mr. Hitaka is being spoken to by Pendu Irani ( middle ) in Baba's presence.
Mr. Hitaka is being spoken to by Pendu Irani ( middle ) in Baba's presence.
1954 - India. Image rendition by Anthony Zois.
1954 - India. Image rendition by Anthony Zois.

Kazuteru Hitaka, a 42-year-old Japanese man from Tokyo, had heard of Meher Baba years ago from a Dr. Muir, the head of a Theosophical group in Japan. He had been wanting to meet Baba ever since and seized the opportunity when he was invited to India by the Japanese ambassador, a relative of his. Baba told Hitaka to rise, commenting wryly, "I do not allow anyone to come up on the hill."

Baba gave Hitaka his own fruit juice to drink, saying, "You have come far; drink it all."

When he had finished drinking, Baba asked him, "Why did you come such a long distance? Baba is everywhere."

"I would like you to come to Japan," Hitaka said.

Baba replied, "After 700 years, I will come to Japan."

Hitaka had journeyed to Meherabad from Calcutta and had to go back to get his visa renewed, so Baba directed him, "Go to Calcutta today for your work, and return to Meherabad on the 28th in time for the meetings."

 

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Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.
Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.

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Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.
Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.
Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.
Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call". Image captured by Anthony Zois.
1954 ,Ahmednagar, Trust compound,India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call"
1954 ,Ahmednagar, Trust compound,India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call"
30th Sept. 1954, Upper Meherabad, India ; photo taken by Panday - Courtesy of MN Collection
30th Sept. 1954, Upper Meherabad, India ; photo taken by Panday - Courtesy of MN Collection
1954 , Ahmednagar, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call"
1954 , Ahmednagar, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call"

1954

THE NEXT DAY, September 27th, Dr. Natrajan and Spiers went to Meherabad, where Padri gave them a tour. Baba was not supposed to come to Meherabad until the meetings, but he came unexpectedly in the morning, explaining to the Western men, "I did not want to come, as I have other things to deal with, but the women mandali had presents they wanted me to give you with my own hands, and to distribute my photographs, which I have signed."

The Japanese man Hitaker had returned from Calcutta, and Baba ordered him to keep silence from midnight that night to the evening of the 28th – to think of Baba alone and read his messages.

 

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Baba informed Hitaker, "You may become one of my chief workers in spreading my work in Japan and other places, but you must first absorb me and feel that you love me. To tell others what we do not feel ourselves is hypocrisy. So feel, then speak with conviction. I will help you, for I am in you. For the last seven nights I have had no rest, but I am happy."

 

 

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1954 , Meherabad, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call"
1954 , Meherabad, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together - Courtesy of "Meher Baba's Call"

The Japanese man Hitaker was keeping silence by Baba's instructions. When he came to Baba for his embrace, he handed him a note, asking if he could continue his silence until Baba broke his. Baba permitted it.


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1954 , Meherabad, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together
1954 , Meherabad, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together

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1954 , Meherabad, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together and wearing a dark suit.
1954 , Meherabad, India ; Hitaka sitting with his hands together and wearing a dark suit.

Books written by Kazuteru Hitaka

 

 

 

 

DEGUCHI, Kyotaro

 

Published by : Oomoto Foundation in 1973

& Published by : Kyoto; in 1973

& Published by : Aiki News in 1998

 

226 pages

 

1st Engl ed., photogr., incl letter written and signed by Prof. Kazuteru Hitaka

 

 

Russell's Peace Appeals 

 

(edited by Tsutomu Makino and Kazuteru Hitaka), Japan

 

 

Ningen Baatorando Rasseru

– The Man Bertrand Russell,

 

 

1970, Kodansha, Tokyo