This reply I have not yet received, and I have been constantly awaiting your reply to my letter, because you had written in one of your postcards, saying, "I shall write the reply within two to three days." Failing to receive your reply, I sent you, only today, the following telegram: "Received letter of 18th but no reply to my last letter of 23rd September. Letter follows." Hope you have received this telegram.
Following up this matter, Chanji further wrote to Gandhi:
1 November 1932, Nasik
Dear Mahatmaji,
I received your letter of the 28th along with the copy of your letter of the 10th enclosed therein.
After reading these, I could not resist showing them to Baba. He read both and then smilingly said:
“”"It is true; there is bound to occur misunderstanding through misrepresentation of facts [recollected and written down by a third person], especially if reproduced by another not directly involved in the conversation that has taken place. Now write what I dictate."
Baba dictated in Gujarati on his board the following as a direct reply to you:
“”"There are many who have delusions of having realized God. After reading Vedanta and Sufi literature, many genuinely believe that they have attained the state of 'Ahm Brahmasmi' or 'Anal Haq' ['I Am God']. Nevertheless, such delusions are far better and more tolerable than the established assumptions of mankind that this world and its affairs are everlasting and real. What I say is that it is far better to be led into believing that 'I am not other than Paramatma,' than to get established into believing that 'I am only a speck of dust, I am a sinner, and I am weak.'
"But there are also some heroes who continually experience within themselves, and in all others, the Eternal One, and they are once and for all time free of all delusions. These who have realized the Truth, and have continual experience of It, can give to others the experience of the Eternal One residing in them; because they who have realized the Truth have neither to do, nor to give, anything except to lay bare the Eternal One by wiping off the film of separative ignorance that has spread over the one and eternal Atma residing equally in themselves as well as in others."
At this point, Shri Baba smilingly indicated on the board, "Tell Dosaji [an affectionate term for an old man] to let us know how he finds my Gujarati!"
