Prayer of March 23, 2001 Thou who art with me day and night and at every moment, help me to know and live consciously in Thy Presence.

-12_Prayer for Mary Helen (June 10, 2000).htm Prayer for Mary Helen June 10, 2000 Divine Mother, For the soul known in its present manifestation as Mary Helen, I offer these prayers in humility and adoration. May she ever be wrapped in the folds of Thy love. May she know and feel concretely at each moment Sri Aurobindo's force protecting and enveloping her. May she experience in each part of her being, even the very cells, Thy Grace and transforming power. May she grow progressively and constantly towards the Supramental consciousness. May I in the purifying golden light of Thy truth be purged of all pettiness, egoism, desire, impatience, anger, ego, to

Prayer Surgery Day-Sept. 28, 1998-5 9:27 I now await, on the physical plane, the words from the doctor. He has prepared us for the worst - but what can be tragic if we rest anchored in Thee. If we truly love Thee and lift ourselves to meet Thee on the summits of our being, we have nothing to fear. My faith is firm, I am in Thy hands. My prayer to Thee is to allow Mary Helen to make the greatest possible inner progress though this illness and I know that Thou hast heard my prayers and hers and that at all times do what is best for our souls. I thank Thee, Mother, always. 9:38 a.m. I have said before, a thou

Prayer Surgery Day – September 28, 1998 9:02 a.m. Divine Puissance, descend into her today, heal all that is suffering and failing, infuse her body with Thy concrete Peace, Thy rapture of delight and the sweetness of Thy touch on her human heart. 9:05 a.m. In these long and painful moments when nothing I can see and with the limited progress of this soul, nothing know, I trust alone to Thy wisdom, Thy divine beneficence and Thy love for this special earth and Thy errant children who struggle so violently with the unseen and the unknown, with the forces of greed, ego, ambition, hatred and rage: descen

June 24, 1997 Mother, I have not soared to Thee. The great potentialities you told me that you saw in me lie unexpressed. Rather, as I approach my 59th year, I am still bound up in the conflicts of the mental-vital-physical. How I remember those moments with Thee - more living than life itself - and the times when Sri Aurobindo came to me. I realize that all my life has now become an unparalleled blessing through Thy grace, and though I falter and fail, yet Thy name remains upon my lips, rising from the core of my inner being. For more than 35 years now I have held the Word, erratic at times, inconsistently at others, but returning again and again to speak within

Prayer of December 10, 2001 Day after day the need for an essential silence of the being deepens as does the need to draw deeper within. I am being shown the areas that need immediate attention and these are addressed in my prayers at the feet of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. And then, there is so much to pray for, especially for others. For this being She named Narad, the flaws and weakness are highlighted in the simplest actions, brought to awareness of the deeper self and offered up for transformation. I pray for the purification of the heart, for a full and joyous surrender, for a total sincerity in all parts of the being, for the demolition of the

Prayer - August 4, 2001   Sri Aurobindo,   Although I have felt in the past a guidance and help when I opened any of Thy books or Mother’s, these days it seems to me that each time I open ‘randomly’ any book, the message speaks to me specifically, explaining and illuminating aspects of my personal sadhana. It is an incomparable gift and I am humbly grateful. Last night I read about poetry and now understand that it is a response of my inner being and a channel of its expression of my love and devotion to Thee I also read of the way in which poetry came to Thee and Thy help to others through the application of the Force. Lord, I pray to be worthy of Thy gifts. Grant me humi

Prayer of July 6, 2001 I pray to Thee, Mother, that in this life I may truly and fully belong to Thee. And my prayer is that the mind, vital and physical understand that these are not merely words of aspiration but the commitment of my soul and therefore all the parts of my being should accept the finality of the soul's decision. Help me, Mother to remember Thee in the rush of events that flow over us and to focus the consciousness on the flame Thou hast lit, to remember and offer ever in gratitude for Thy endless Grace. There are thousands of forces tugging at our minds, distracting and attracting our consciousness toward petty things that pull us

Prayer to Sri Aurobindo June 10, 2000 Sri Aurobindo, Lord, how can we coalesce the disparate strands of our diffused and hardly conscious lives other than by surrender in gratitude? How many millions of lives hast Thou touched, how many souls have been guided by Thy love to tread the path leading to superhumanity. O Lord Thou hast established a new principle on earth, the true unifying field, the truth-consciousness, with the force to change physical matter and to remould man in the divine image. How many of us have strayed only to be led gently back by the sweetness of Thy infinite love for earth and mankind? I believe that even those un

Sept. 26, 2001 Lord, grant me the humility to read and begin to understand Savitri on the deeper levels of the spirit. In years past I have marvelled at the beauty of certain lines and passages, have been moved to tears of rapture when I felt the strains of overhead poetry and mantric force, but now, Lord, as the Presence grows in the heart and the being aspires for calm and deep surrender, even the reading of a few lines transports my soul. Help me to grow aware of Savitri in my inner being, to understand slowly and progressively with an awareness beyond the mind’s capability, this supreme gift Thou hast given to humanity.