Prayer of July 28, 2001

Divine Mother,

I realize more each day how great a gift I have been given to have been able to share these thirty years with Mary Helen and grow towards Thee at her side. Her gentle care and quietness, her refinement and her need for order and conscious organization, her aesthetic taste and unostentatious devotion are only a few of the many blessings she daily sheds upon my soul.

This night, on the eve of my 63^rd birthday, I kneel before Thee in gratitude, offer a prayer for the rapid progress of her soul, for illumined days and radiant nights enfolded in Thy care. I thank Thee for all Thy Grace descending, the ever-living memory of Thy Feet on whose lotuses I placed my offered head.

Sri Aurobindo, my gratitude is beyond measure for the openings thou hast given me and the constant help that enables me to slowly ascend to Thy Feet.

My prayer tonight is one - May I belong to Thee and Mother.

Narad