May 1959
(Letter to Mother from Satprem)
Pondicherry, May 1959
Sweet Mother,
You have rid me of my headache in a spectacular way, not to mention the beginning of an infection in a wisdom tooth. So I am writing you.
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I was prompted to speak to X about the financial difficulties of the Ashram and I took the opportunity to tell him about the subtle ‘détente’ that has occurred. I told him that you had wondered whether he had not done something (I am putting all this very succinctly). He replied that as soon as he returned to Rameswaram, he made a special puja of gratitude to you for three days and prayed to his divinity to repay you a hundredfold (these are my words; I am translating freely what X meant). So I spoke to him of these men with their crores of rupees coming near the Ashram and of the money that is suddenly diverted in another direction by a hostile thrust. All this left him reflective. I will speak to him another time of what you are trying to realize here materially. He has felt something.
Your child, with love.
Signed: Satprem
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