Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother

30 March 1936

My dear Mother,

Many days back I gave S cumin seeds to clean, but she returned them immediately without cleaning them. I saw sand and other foreign matter in them and sent them back to her. The next day she told me: "The Mother has asked me not to clean the cumin much; it is to be thrown away." I kept quiet for a time and then said: "Do as the Mother has said."

She sent me the cumin a few days back through N, saying that it was too difficult to clean, that she could not do it. I answered through N that she had to take a few grains at a time and spread them and thus it became easy. I showed N what I meant by doing it before him. I never spoke of not cleaning much and still less of throwing anything away. Now what N has exactly told her, I don't know.

30 March 1936