Read Parichand's correspondence with The Mother - in two parts, 'Sadhana and Life' and 'Gardening Work'; it covers the period from 1936 to 1961.
The Mother : correspondence
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Born on 30 October 1904, the Bengali disciple Parichand Kothari joined the Ashram on 11 November 1934 at the age of thirty. During the first few years, he worked as a gatekeeper, librarian and English teacher. Then in 1938 he began working in the garden of the Ashram's main building. For the next fifty years he was head of that garden and head also of the Ashram Garden Service. He lived in the Ashram for fifty-six years, until his passing on 27 August 1991 at the age of eighty-six.
Parichand's correspondence with the Mother is arranged in two parts, "Sadhana and Life" and "Gardening Work"; it covers the period from 1936 to 1961.
SADHANA AND LIFE
Mother,
Sometimes the vegetables in the Dining Room have an unpleasant taste, but I am eating them in spite of it in order to break old formations and achieve an equality of taste. Is this what You wish me to do?
Certainly it is indispensable to break down the narrowness and limitations of taste—the vegetables that taste bad to you others find excellent.
c. 1936
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