Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother

8 November 1966

Do You like flattery? Even certain persons close to You don’t tell You things as they are, and when one asks them why, the answer is: “It would not please Sweet Mother.”

It is not necessarily a question of flattery. Since I am extremely busy and don’t have time to listen to what each person would like to tell me, it is quite natural that those around me prefer to tell me pleasant things first and keep the unpleasant ones for afterwards.

To tell the truth, it is important to tell me things only when I have to intervene, and those things are not so many.

8 November 1966