19. My respects to you.

      Your letters were received.

      I have just got back from a camp at Ranakpur.

      It was just for friends from Rajasthan,

      that’s why you weren’t informed.

      It lasted five days and about sixty people participated.

      It was a wonderful success

      and it was obvious that much happened.

      Encouraged by the results

      the organizers are planning a camp on an all-India basis.

      You must come to that.

      I am glad to hear your meditation is progressing.

      You have only to be silent.

      To be silent is everything.

      Silence does not mean absence of speech,

      it means absence of thoughts.

      When the mind quietens down

      it becomes linked to the infinite.

      Don’t do anything,

      just sit and watch the flow of thoughts, just watch.

      This just watching dissolves thought by itself.

      The awakening of witnessing

      brings freedom from the modifications of the mind.

      With thoughts finished, consciousness is.

      This is samadhi.

      Love to all friends.

      1965

      20. Love.

      Last night when lamps and lamps

      were lit up all over town

      I thought: My Sohan, too, must have lit lamps

      and a few among them must surely be for me!

      And then I began to see the lamps you had lit,

      and also those your love has kept lit always.

      I shall stay here another day.

      I have talked of you to everybody

      and they are eager to meet you.