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Poona
17th May 1966
Dear Amiya,
Your letter of 13 May was received and it was read out to Beloved Baba and He felt very pleased to hear it. Baba wants you to go to a good doctor and get your stomach trouble treated and get medicines and not to worry at all. Baba is with you, and His nazar is with you. Therefore you should go on working for Him and never get nervous. Baba will always help you in His own way, internally. Please keep Seth Govindas informed about Baba and also tell him to remember Baba. It is now necessary for him to remember Baba. Please convey to the daughters and son of Tiwarijee that they should surrender the results of their examination at the feet of Beloved Baba and they should remain unattached to the results. Rather, they should become attached wholeheartedly to Baba in His remembrance.
It is hoped that the Exhibition1 in Jabalpur will become helpful. You should all be feeling very much satisfied with the work that has been done. Baba is Baba. What can we say about His pain and suffering? When His silence is broken, automatically all His pain and suffering will come to an end.
Your postcard of 14th May has just been received and we read it out to Baba. Baba wants that you should give the child the name "Meher." Begin it with Meher2 and then you can write anything else after that, like Meher Kumar or any other.
Baba sends His kiss to Gauri, to the newborn child and to Mehernandini. Baba is happy with you and Baba sends His love to you and Matajee.
Jai Baba
Yours affectionately,
Bhau
1. Amiya: "We had taken up a stall (perhaps like a miniature version of the Baba booth at the New York World's Fair) in an exhibition (fair) in Jabalpur, where we exhibited Baba's pictures and books. The work lasted for a month and a half and it was a novel experience for us. We used to staff the booth with two people at a time, and the booth was open until 11 PM at night. Hundreds of people used to come to visit the fair and obviously many of them would come and look into the stall, see the books and the photos, and ask us questions about Baba. They were sometimes quite awkward, difficult questions and we had a wonderful experience in telling people about Baba. Of course it was an exercise in patience. Meher Kumar was born was on 11th of May during my work at the exhibition, so I wasn't at the birth. Gauri had gone to Diamond Harbor, a town some 40 miles away from Calcutta, where her maternal uncle and his wife lived."
2. Amiya explains, for anyone who may not be familiar with his family, that a first son was born to him, and they named him Meher Kumar, after consulting Baba about a name. This child was born with a cleft palate and could not suck milk, and the doctors were afraid the child would die young unless an operation were to be performed. In the letters that follow, Baba is involved (naturally) in the process of obtaining that operation. "Meher Kumar" means "son of Meher."
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