Minna Paladino and Amal Kiran on Mary Helen   March 13, 2002   Dear Narad,   On the 9th I mailed a letter to Mary Helen.  And then on the 9th afternoon your letter and diary notes to Amal arrived in his letter box.  He read them on the 10th. I hardly knew her. Only met her a few times on your last visit to Pondicherry.  But I feel so close to her.  I prayed for her healing practically every day.  And even after the 10th of March when I learned of her leaving, I still pray for her. Funny thing... today when I got to the Nursing Home there were two packets of pecan nuts and dried fruits from Mary Helen waiting in front of Sri Aurobindo's photo.  One is for Amal and one is for

Dean Nair to Narad – On Mary Helen's Passing                     Much moved by your experience on Mary Helen's departure.  There Was undoubtedly a passage into another unseizable dimension.                    Remain calm and peaceful in the certainty of Mother's love and protection.   Yours, as ever,   Devan

Tribute to Mary Helen – Nilanjan   Although in pauses of our human lives Earth keeps for man some short and perfect hours When the inconscient tread of Time can seem The eternal moment which the deathless live, Yet rare that touch upon the mortals world: Hardly a soul and body here are born In the fierce difficult movement of the stars, Whose life can keep the paradisal note.                                                       Savitri – Book 6, Canto 1   was moved by the message . . . with the bereaved . . .   Empathetically,   Nilanjan

Tribute to Mary Helen – Madge Estes                     The Lord laid Mary Helen on my heart and there was nothing                   I could do but pray for her.                                                                                                                                 Madge Estes

Tribute to Mary Helen – Lilou, Pushpa, Maniben, Jayantibhai, Anandi and Vidyut   Dear Narad,   You are in our thoughts and in our hearts.   We remember Mary Helen with her beautiful smile and we feel she is still here.   We pray for you both.   In Their Light and Peace.   Lilou, Pushpa, Maniben, Jayantibhai, Anandi and Vidyut   Wilfy was very sad to hear about Mary Helen and sends you his love.    

Tribute to Mary Helen – Lilo   Dear Narad,   I still remember when I saw Mary Helen for the first time on your last visit to the Ashram.  She became like a twin sister to me, we had so much in common.  I was hoping we would get another chance to deepen our relationship.  It will be for the future.   We all know what it means to you to have lost a beautiful companion, but as Bob said you are the Mother's child and she will be more than ever with you.   Narad, we all hope you will see us soon, back here in the Ashram.  We all need you, in the Ashram and even more so in Auroville.  You are the Matrimandir gardener.   With all my love to both of you.   Lilo

  Tribute to Mary Helen – June Maher   Dear Narad,   I returned to find the poignant, uplifting tribute to Mary Helen's life and that she had left us on February 7th.  All my thoughts, love flow to you and Chali at this moment.  Actually it is a moment that embraces all of us who are so intimately linked and know our source of being in Them.   I slipped for a moment into a deep sense of sadness, then remembered Mary Helen was given only 3 weeks to live which became 3 years, thanks to courage, determination and an absolute faith and call to the Mother by you both.  It was a triumph.  The immersion in Savitri and the work on the Lexicon together must have illumined these last yea

Tribute to Mary Helen – B. (Bill Sullivan)   Dear Chali   Peace I have appreciated all that I have read about Mary Helen and feel her very close.  When I first heard about her passing, I got out that book I gave you about how to raise a child because you had not remembered the two pictures in there of you and Mary Helen. I opened it to the picture of you in the backpack and set it on the table with some large yellow mums, Mother's Flower Book and a candle.  I needed to do that because there was a call for some action in the physical to represent a spiritual offering. About two weeks before, Mary Helen had come to me in a dream.  She was radiant, silent and smiling.  We sat together

Tribute to Mary Helen – Skye (Diane)   Yesterday morning early when the phone rang and the sobbing voice identified itself as Chali,  I knew what had happened even as I ran across the yard to comfort her.  It is only now, sitting down to write this, just having seen Chali off to her mother's funeral, that my own grief assails me.   Mary Helen was my first true friend in the Yoga.  We got to know each other travelling across the States to a symposium on Auroville held in New York when Chali was a baby.  Through all these years and numerous interruptions in our communication, she has remained one of my dearest loved sisters.  We often spoke of how, after not hearing from one another for a ti

Tribute to Mary Helen – Gauri Pinto   Dear Narad,                     My mother received your message from Lilou and she has kept a place for you in Golconde for December 2002.  We shall really miss seeing Mary Helen again but we know what a beautiful and pure life she led and the joy of that remains.   The work you both did to save the Service Tree is so visible today.  The first blooms started a few days ago and it is a beautiful sight.   Gauri Pinto