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 Matrima

Richard and Mary Helen Eggenberger P.O. Box 2826 Cleveland, GA. 30528 Tel: (706) 865-1258 Fax: (706) 219-4866 Email: maryhele@alltel.net Jan. 22, 2002 Dear Amal, Since your last letter in which you mention that we may not see each other again in this life I have thought of you constantly as Mary Helen continues her confrontation with cancer and faces day by day the Spectre although with the full protection and Grace of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Of that I have no doubt. I too am being blessed each day by Their Grace and only pray to be worthy, to purify the heart and to gain the true spiritual humility to be their child. My prayers are so many

There are some things in Savitri which seem seizable and understandable by the inner being or the secret intuitive self but cannot be quite satisfactorily understood by the thinking intellect.

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