2001 Dear Amal, As I read The Secret Splendour and go more deeply into your poems and Sri Aurobindo's comments on them, I feel His help and your love reaching out to me. "In these very difficult times when Mary Helen is valiantly and heroically battling the cancer, I feel, too, Mother's help constantly. As the Presence grows stronger in my heart and I pray for purification, surrender and complete sincerity, I feel a contact with you on a higher plane. "One exam-le is the experience of the Presence in the heart as a pressure, occasionally even a slight pain." Th

February 23, 2002 Dear Amal, By now you will have heard that Mary Helen left the earth on Feb. 7th. Just a few months before I had read in your book, Life - Poetry -Yoga what Mother said should be done when a disciple of Sri Aurobindo passes away. I followed this exactly. Although the days are not easy, I am getting through and think of you often. I do hope I am not burdening you too much with these diary notes but there is no one else I would want to share them with just now except perhaps, Arindam Basu. You have meant so much to me these past two years. At Their Feet, Narad

LETTER FROM AMAL – 30.11.2001 Very dear Narad, Your long letter has been a great joy and all the more so because I feel a fine subtle light shining through it! You and Mary Helen are often in our mind and heart. I have been reduced to absolute immobility but the presence of the divine absolute can be contacted through everything. I don’t know whether I shall physically see Mary Helen And you again but inwardly there is no distance. With love from Minna and me,

Correspondence with Amal – August 27, 1999 P.O. Box 2826 Cleveland, GA 30528 August 27, 1999 Dear Amal, We returned home today after a three week visit to the majestic mountains of Wyoming and a four day AUM Conference in Colorado, the theme of which was Savitri, to find your most welcome letter. "I have been reading Savitri for 38 years since I first arrived in the Ashram in" 1961. "I read once a week to the workers at the Matrimandir for many years as Mother encouraged me to do so and send me Her blessings packets specifically for reading Savitri." It is in the last few "years, however, that I have made the decision to devote myse

Letter to Amal – 2000.htm Letter to Amal – 2000 Dear Amal, On Saturday afternoon I concentrated before Sri Aurobindo's photograph for a long time. Man days ago a poem began to come but I could not get the right words in many of the lines. So I prayer to him for guidance and I received a strong feeling that it would be alright to go and seek your help. I remembered how you told us tat you had tried to find the inevitable word, how Dilip had tried to help and Sri Aurobindo's comment when you found exactly the word that was needed. On Sunday sometime after 10:00 a.m. I went to see you. Dayabhai had given me flowers of 'Adoration' which I brought you. You seemed to be in deep meditation so I could

He is the inner or inmost being in us which knows the rhythms of the world, but the conditions under which we live at present prevent them from being fully caught.

My dear Narad, The word in connection with the hippogriff is "occurring". Re: the "lands", the word is "plane". I think the word 'mantra" involves vocalisation - either inward or outward. In the famous Shakespeare line – "To be or not to be" - I believe the word "that" is to be emphasized in order to give the question its point. The "mantra" is something to be heard. So its function is best served if it is spoken. In the line - "To be or not to be"..." – the word "that" is to be accented. The emphasis is to go to the o

On the New Music - Part 4 After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Aldous Huxley Introduction Initially I was inspired to write on the New Music and thought a few articles would be sufficient to express the background and direction of our effort in OM Choirs throughout the world, the aspiration of the collective body and the method of the music's descent, but I find myself inspired to write still more in the light of recent experiences, correspondence and talks with others who see the eme

ON THE NEW MUSIC Part Five Introduction To begin this fifth article on the New Music I look back on the Om Choirs of the past four months, in Auroville, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in New Delhi. During January and February the New Music began to descend in waves of extraordinary power and sweetness. The first vast opening came in Auroville with the collective body receiving one sound with infinite reverberations as we chanted OM. Melodies within melodies, harmonies built upon harmonies, al