Chapter 4January 16, 1965

(From Mother to Satprem)

Saturday evening Satprem, mon cher petit, Today at noon, I spoke to the doctor about you, and he explained your case to me and told me what has to be done.

He has convinced me, and I think it is the swiftest way of being radically cured. Thus you will take that week6 as an exercise in "inner contact."

Naturally, I will be with you in light and love.

Signed: Mother

(From Mother to Satprem)

(All of Satprem's letters from Vellore, like the others, unfortunately disappeared. Satprem had written

to Mother asking for a mantra, especially since he had given up the Tantric discipline.)

Satprem, Here is Ganesh who dances so you may be cured SOON.

Tenderness 6That "week" in the Vellore hospital was to last more than a month. Mother's letter astounded Satprem, as he did not believe in medicine; he held quite a grudge against Mother, without understanding that She perhaps had other, "educational" intentions. But in reality, during that month in Vellore, Satprem kept fighting not against the so-called "illness," but against