The Danish Peace Academy
GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES
Collected by E. S. Reddy - EReddy@aol.com and Holger TerpLetter, January 5, 1935
Delhi,
January 5, 1935
My dear child,
If this letter can intensify the wishes, then this is to reciprocate your wishes. It is freezingly cold here. The 4 o’clock prayer bell has gone.
Of course, Harijans need ever so much more than mere temple-entry for their spiritual satisfaction.185 Temple-entry is not so much their spiritual need, as its grant is that of the arrogant caste Hindus. They can have no spiritual grace so long as they deny to their fellows in faith the same right of worship that they claim for themselves. Is not this quite clear?
With love and kisses added for the children,
Yours,
Bapu
[PS ]
In Delhi till 20th at least, 28th at the most. Then Wardha.
Source: My Dear Child, page 109; Collected Works, Volume 60, pages 57-58
185 Harijans (members of the “untouchable” caste), though Hindu, were excluded from many Hindu temples. Gandhi and his followers opposed the exclusion and resorted to passive resistance to open the temples to Harijans.
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