A Letter to a Friend

October 24th, 1972

I can well understand how lonely you must be feeling…. But if you look at it from a different angle, you should be happy that you at least get time for yourself and can live with yourself for some time in peace and tranquillity.

To be alone, especially when one is so used to family life, is a very rare privilege and opportunity. One can reflect and look within. Then we see how much we are attached unnecessarily to the people all around and how we just try to deceive ourselves that we belong to someone or someone belongs to us. The realization that we are alone and nothing in this world belongs to us is a great boon and grace of the Father. Then, naturally, one looks to Him for guidance and help to overcome this loneliness, which ultimately is our goal….

Still, I am not lucky enough to be alone, as I am always surrounded by satsang activities or by friends and family members. Anyway, I have to make the best use of the bargain and be happy with myself…. I have given myself entirely to the duty and cause which has been thrust upon my shoulders and, in my own humble way, am doing my best to attend to it. All the same, I am quite grateful to Him for giving me so much strength to go through this routine and face the ups and downs of the administration….

Sometimes, no doubt, I am pulled by my responsibilities of a husband and father towards my wife and children, but then I know that by myself I can do nothing as everything is in the hands of Maharaj ji.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Treasure Beyond Measure (extracts)}