Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother

10 November 1966

What good is it to tell You pleasant things? — because it is always You. What is not pleasant is what we are — and if we hide ourselves from You, if we are not ready to tell the truth, how can we live the truth?

For me, pleasant or unpleasant has little meaning; these are very relative ways of seeing and feeling the play of the eternal consciousness — and the proof of this is that the same thing or circumstance can be pleasant for some people and unpleasant for others.

From the practical point of view, I always take note of things that are useful to say because they require my intervention (compassion for a mistake committed is certainly part of them). And words that are spoken only for the pleasure of speaking, that is to say, useless [end of reply missing]

10 November 1966