Devon Nair on Mary Helen   Dear Narad,   My thoughts flew to you when I read about the passing of Mary Helen. For one to whom Mother said "I am with you, fear not", one need not grieve.  She IS safe and well in Mother's embrace.  Let this unshakeable faith sustain all those who loved her.   Yours in Her Love,   Devon Nair

A Vision from Sunanda on Mary Helen's Passing   It was an abode as if in white clouds and snow.  But there were sharp steeples at the top. It was not one of Natural scapes that are seen so often in our visions.  It was more concrete and yet in the subtle way. Then I found myself in contact with the inside of this place.  It was the same familiar place I see often.  Some familiar presences and others not intimately known were there.  The sight glided all around without any effort. The physical "I" knew it to be one of the boons given and there was no need for me to try to see anything.  It was just there, taking place inside that familiar place.  It was as usual all shimmering white with ra

“Progress is the very heart of the significance of human life, for it means our evolution into greater and richer being; and these ages by insisting on it, by forcing us to recognize it as our aim and our necessity, by making impossible hereafter the attempt to subsist in the dullness or the gross beatitude of a stationary self-content, have done a priceless service to the earth-life and cleared the ways of heaven. Outward progress was the greater part of its aim and the inward is the more essential, but the inward too is not complete if the outward is left out of account. Even if the insistence of our progress fall for a time too excl

Progress Feb No. 4 Since the previous issue on Greenwork a number of opinions have been expressed within Auroville concerning the inclusion of three communities: Pitchandikulam, Utilite and Auro-Orchard. These opinions were communicated both privately and in a Pour Tous general meeting and reflected different, often opposing point of view. It was finally agreed that the matter should be referred to the twelve member Cooperative. Here it was decided that these three communities should, for the present, be excluded from Progress and other publications and that an explanation of the position of these communities vis-a-vis the collective

November ’79 NO.3 Sri Aurobindo’s Action Center Auroville Association P.O. Box 1977 Boulder, CO 80306 “The opposition between spirituality and material life, the division between the two, has no sense for me, as in truth life and the spirit are one and it is in and by the physical work that the highest spirit must be manifest.” The Mother