Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother

26 January 1969

Mother,

As I informed you last Tuesday, I am going next Thursday, the 30th January, to Calcutta, and maybe to Delhi also, returning home on the 3rd or 4th February. The idea behind the trip is to be of some service.

Grant me, if you please, the energy to be able to serve you. This wish is the reason why I do not want any illness. Not that I am hankering to live for ever! I should live as long as you find it necessary and when die let it be without illness and of free will, since illness, I gather, is not the Divine Dispensation.

And faith, I believe, is the bulwark against illness. By faith, I understand faith in you, faith that you are the Divine. I have that faith. If I am right in my understanding of faith, I suppose I could rightly consider myself basically free from illness and live and move in that confidence.

Keep the unshaken faith that the Divine wants you in good health—and it will be all right.

With love and blessings

26 January 1969