Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother

12 November 1966

One loves someone — that person loves someone else. It is rare that people love each other with the same intensity. Why?

Because what men call “love” is rarely love. It is usually a physical desire or a vital attraction or a sentimental affinity.

Love is something very profound, very intense and very lasting; it does not need reciprocation in order to exist, and it manifests very rarely among human beings because it cannot exist along with egoism.

12 November 1966