Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

24 September 1960

Mother,

G showed me the letter you had written to her a few days back. I remarked to her that the concluding part was of very general application and that it was too beautiful to be left in the dark. She fully agreed. So if you approve, may I use it for the Mother India of October? There is a second text here too for your consideration.

WORDS OF THE MOTHER

Never forget that, as much outside as in the Ashram, if you want to lead a happy life, you must be the master of your lower nature and control your desires and vital impulses; otherwise there is no end to the miseries and the troubles. (20 September 1960)

That knee of yours is still troubling you? But you must keep in touch with athletics. Otherwise you will become incapable. Do you want to go about with a stick and, in your old age, get all weak and tottering? Learn from X’s example. Look at what he is doing even at his age!

The trouble is not the mere fact of the knee being bad. You have to put your full consciousness there and be obstinate at it. It is by constantly putting your consciousness, day after day, month after month, and by doing exercise, that you can cure the knee. Truly you have to be very obstinate and do consciously the movements which do not allow the dislocation to recur. Of course, you can’t go on thinking of the knee all the time. You have to do so many things together. But it is not necessary to go on thinking. You have just to fix the consciousness at the place and it will take care automatically to ward off the forces of accident. This is the only way, and it is by persistently pursuing it that people have cured themselves.¹³ (24 August 1960)

24 September 1960