Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

18 June 1942

Mother,

Your letter of May last year, in reply to mine in which I explained what I thought of doing, runs: “Do as you like. But as you ask my opinion I must say that it is silly.” Is it silly because there is a feeling in me that circumstances are compulsive?

Another thing: why have you omitted those words which mean so much to me and which you have always ended with: “Love and blessings”?

My “it is silly” covered many sides of the question, including the most exterior one. What you suggest as the foolishness of believing that circumstances are compelling when they are not, is part of it.

It is purposely that I have omitted the words “love and blessings”, because I did not wish you to think that I am blessing your enterprise — I do not — just because I find it silly. So, do not be mistaken if I end by love and blessings. These words are for your soul of which you are not, just now, very conscious, and not for your exterior being.

18 June 1942