NARAD REMEMBERS (Mother India - November 2006) (Continued from the issue of September 2006) THEMIS—THE POET On Poetry (Mother India - November 2006) July 13,2004 Tehmi: (On Savitri) The very first line. What a tremendous opening. It says so much. You have to read it differently. It is simple. Nothing dramatic. You imagine it. It is very powerful. It gives the sense of transition from the night to the dawn. I can hear it. The word "eyeless" (in the phras

THEMIS—NARAD REMEMBERS (Mother India - June 2007) (Continued from the issue of January 2007) Her Visions and Experiences THOUGH Tehmi would say that she had very few experiences she spoke to me many times of two that were so powerful they were inscribed in her consciousness as on a perpetual tablet of Divine Grace. She actually was blessed with many other visions, some of which she recounted to me during her last two years and others that were recently found in one of her o

NARAD REMEMBERS (Mother India - December 2006) (Continued from the issue of November 2006) THEMIS—THE POET On Poetry Tehmi: [again on her own poetry] The poetry came so naturally to me and then I stopped it, which was a stupidity. On Shakespeare: No poet comes close to Shakespeare. [We quote lines together from Hamlet and Macbeth.] On Henry V: I don't care for it. Too rhetorical and pompous.

NARAD REMEMBERS (Mother India - January 2007) (Continued from the issue of December2006) THEMIS—THE POET On Poetry HERE are some more of Tehmi's comments on poets and poetry. Tehmi: Sri Aurobindo wrote a short commentary on my poems. * Those who don't love poetry must be missing so much. * I think it is a real grace and a gift if one loves poetry.

Chanting OM   ̶ December 14, 2002 I was amazed the other evening when I chanted OM and read Savitri at Huta's home, Gratitude, amazed that there was still some voice left after nearly forty years without practicing. Perhaps Mother will give me more and more openings to the New Music but I am aware that at the OM Choirs She is the leader and my offering must be egoless ̶ not even a hint of 'personal' satisfaction. If all can be offered to the Divine then, perhaps...

Trust and Consecration March 13, 1999 What is needed now and always has been is a complete trust in the Divine Grace, an exclusive turning to the Mother with total faith that She will do the best thing for the progress of Mary Helen's soul as mine and to progressively surrender ourselves to Her and Sri Aurobindo. If all the years of our life together have led us to this point then we must use the opportunity for a leap forward in consecration and sincerity. Each moment presents an occasion to establish a deeper calm, to accept to be nothing, a

Diary ̶ October 3, 2001 Divine Mother, My soul knows and needs no convincing tat Thou art with Mary Helen at every moment. Though the words of Arabinda Basu, Huta and Deshpande, emphasizing Thy ever present help for Mary Helen, doing what is best for her soul, are an added comfort for the outer being, within I am certain of Thy Grace and Blessings. Therefore how can I pray for Thee and Sri Aurobindo to be with her? And yet I pray. All I can do is offer myself in gratitude, knowing that the Lord's Will shall be done. In that knowledge I rest in calm tr

Diary September 28, 1998 Surgery Day 7:47 a.m. Mary Helen, Thou hast been such a blessing to this soul. No human can know what Mother and Sri Aurobindo have done for us and for the body of the earth. Cherished are all my memories of thee, steadfast companion on the way. Your deep gentle love, your thoughts of others always before yourself, your quiet depths, your calm revealing smile rising from the inner recesses of your soul of light, your voice ever soft and gentle,