|| Vyaptam Yena Chara Charam ||

Saint Baba Maharaj Arvikar says that letters are an instrument (sadhan) that brings two minds together and blends them, making them one. A letter is a wonderful resource through which, conventional interactions/communications may be conducted even in the absence of speech.

Every day, along with all his other work (discourses, writing, meeting disciples, establishing the Machnur ashram and its arrangements, establishment of Sant Dharma Prasarak Mandal and its arrangements, etc.), Saint Baba, without fail, wrote almost 60 letters after everyone had gone to sleep.

At the gentle insistency of Kakuma’s love, Baba would send his beloved Ma a letter every day-as possible. 

Since Baba would travel a lot for his work in service of god, though, he once told Kakuma, “When it isn’t possible to send me letters through the postal service, in those circumstances, write the letter and let it go into the wind, river or ocean, so that I’ll know. They will carry your letters to me.”

Once, though, Kakuma didn’t know Baba’s address while he was traveling, but she became restless while missing Sadguru Mauli and wrote a letter to Baba, went up to the terrace and let it go—to be carried by the wind. 

Surprisingly, within a few days, Baba sent her a letter in response, answering that letter. 

Sometimes, even a mother does not know why her child is crying. But a sadguru, the one who has been a true mother to a soul for many lifetimes always understands/recognizes why their child is restless, the intense call of the heart, and what they are longing for, beyond any measurement, and immediately comes running for the child. 

Many times, we make the mistake of seeing sadugurus only as their physical form. But this story reminds us that the relation between a sadguru and their disciple is beyond the material world, one of selflessness and a tender closeness.

Saint Baba Maharaj Arvikar once even said to Kakuma,  “Do not be fooled by mistaking me for a man. Remember that there is someone else wandering around in the shape of this body.”