The Danish Peace Academy

GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES

Letter, January 29, 1920

January 29, 1920

My dear child,

I passed two days by without writing but not without thinking or talking of you. Your health is not what it should be. You may not be able to digest chapati.⁸⁹ You should then take the usual loaf. Anasuyabehn will bring it for you. Tell Imam Sahib about it. And you may take milk in the morning with some fruit and bread and dahi⁹⁰ in rice for breakfast, with some vegetables simply boiled. Perhaps the dal⁹¹ may not suit you. Thus a little bread, a little rice, a little vegetable and dahi may be your breakfast. In the evening too it may be this. And a little fresh fruit, an orange, say, at noon; whether this is proper or something else you will finally decide. Only you must put your body right even as an artisan’s first duty is to keep his tools in order. God has given us this body as a tool to be used efficiently for His service, neither for pampering nor for keeping in cotton wool but not even for abusing or spoiling it by neglect. This is a wretched sermon but much needed.

With love,

Yours,

Bapu

Source: My Dear Child, pages 51-52; Collected Works, Volume 16, page 520

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