Tribute to Mary Helen – Susan and Richard

 

8^th February, 2002

 

Dear Narad,

                  Bob came into the computer room just now with the sad news of Mary Helen's passing.  Out thoughts, love and prayers have been with you these past days since your last email and now it is as though we were there with you in sorrow, but with gratitude and love that our dear Mary Helen is safely with The Mother and Sri Aurobindo and that their love and protection are with you.  We will always remember Mary Helen for her extreme beauty, delicacy and intensity of soul which always shone so clearly through her.

 

                  When Bob came just now we were looking at an unused passage of Savitri for the Book of Love, which never fitted into the final version, but seems to have been written for you; we append it below.

 

(Savitri)

O Satyavan, our souls can never part.

I go who am with thee for ever now.

 

(Satyavan)

Better the world should break than we two part.

Our severance and our union was its sense

And our deep oneness its supreme result.

O now is the Immortal's victory sure

Since after blinding centuries we have met

And heart has recognised replying heart

And even in the veiling mind we have known ourselves

And body leaped to body for delight

For surely through the ages thou wert mine

As mother, sister, daughter, comrade, wife,

For the completeness of our growing souls.

 

In Their Love always,

 

Susan and Richard