Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother

August 1932

(Letter of Amrita to Champaklal, with the Mother’s reply)

Champaklal,

I do not want an explanation from you. I request you to pass this letter on to the Mother.

This is not the first time you have been rude and inconsiderate towards me. Today you threw such dirt in my face that, but for the grace of the Mother, I would have sunk into depression. In my worst state, in my darkest of moods, I would never dream of saying, “The Mother is ferocious,” a condition generally attributed to wild animals.

You have a special knack of misunderstanding me. How could you even dream that I am capable of saying or feeling that “the Mother is ferocious”? But she is there and knows what I could have said or could not have said.

My poor Amrita

You are perfectly ridiculous. Why do you attach so much importance to a statement which, at the worst, could be considered a bad joke? I DIDN’T.

You must have a little more sense of humour.

Those who take offence are always wrong, to say nothing of those who take revenge!

August 1932