India - the Mother

December 29, 1971

I have received a letter from Indira.

Oh, really? [Mother hands an envelope, Satprem reads out the letter:]

Revered Mother,

Through these critical months I have thought constantly of you. I can find no words with which to express my gratitude for your support. Your blessings are a great source of strength. Our difficulties are not over. (Mother nods her head) The American administration is most upset that its calculations were so completely wrong, and they will use their power to try to humble us and specially to create division between Bangla Desh and ourselves.

I think our nation has taken a step towards maturity. Yet there are many who look only to today. If India is to be great we must improve the quality of the minds of our people. I know that this is your desire. In my humble way I am trying to do what I can.

With respectful regards,

Yours sincerely,

Indira Gandhi

That's good, indeed.

It's good. So I replied this:

To Indira

With blessings.

India must be proud of your leadership.

Let the country take its true place in the world for showing the way towards the supreme Truth.

with love

Mother

It's good she has this attitude.

Yes, it's good.⁷⁵

But there are still many difficulties.

Oh! ... Oh, it's a scoundrel who's become the ... [president of Pakistan, Bhutto].

Oh, you mean that one!

Quite a scoundrel. And he's killing his own people. Some teachers have been executed because they had a different opinion. He's committing atrocities in his own country.... In a way, it's what is needed to show the falsehood of the thing [i.e., the division of Pakistan and India].

And yet Pakistan's new president is putting up a democratic faҫade.

By murdering people!

Several provinces of West Pakistan have rebelled against the people he had put in place to govern them.⁷⁶

We'll see.

(After a silence) Things are moving fast.

Mother's Agenda: December 29, 1971