Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

22 December 1943

Mother,

If a person who was declared by you to be “saintly” in nature could come away from a Yogic life of many years, I can’t help feeling quite sad and discouraged.

Amal,

I do not propose to write anything about the main subject of your letter. Only, as you write of discouragement, I may point out to you that nothing irreparable has happened. Of course, the further one wanders away from the path, the more radical will be the conversion needed to return to it; but the return is always possible.

With my love and blessings

22 December 1943