Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother

7 September 1962

Ma, I have had a problem for some time. When I look at Your photographs, no matter which ones, a suggestion comes to me: “This is not Mother”, even though I know it is You. Ma, I don’t know if it is a hostile suggestion. In the photograph You have a form, yet it is not the form one usually sees. It is difficult to express.

Ma, You know everything. I have put the problem as clearly as possible and the rest you know.

It is not a hostile suggestion but a partial, incomplete experience. Photographs merely show an incomplete fragmentary image of a form that is itself transient and fleeting.

My consciousness, my true being not only has an eternal form but many immortal forms, and each person can see the form that is in accord with him. Some day you will surely see one of my true forms.

With my blessings

7 September 1962