The Danish Peace Academy

GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES

Letter, May 2, 1917

Motihari,

Champaran,

May 2, 1917

Dear Esther,

I have just received your letter from Ahmedabad. To say "I thank you" would be in your case an empty form. Your interest is much deeper. My experiences here give the greatest joy. The suffering I see around me gives me equal pain. I know that you feel for me because you would like to be in the thick of it all yourself. But your work is cut out for you. For those who are at a distance from you, you can but pray. And that you are doing with all your heart.

I may not be able to leave this place for six months. One of these days, I shall describe to you the nature of the work I am doing here.

Do please go to the ashram whenever you can. It is one of your homes if one may have more than one.

You may write to me at the address given at the top.

With love,

Yours,

Bapu

Source:My Dear Child, page 7; Collected Works, Volume 13, page 381

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