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વાત જરાયે માનતા નથી, પણ તેને તરત ઇનકાર તો કરવો જ જોઈએ.” | બાપુએ પોલાકને લાંબા મજાને કાગળ લખ્યા. એમાં કાગળ ફરી પાછો ન વાંચી જવાનાં પરિણામો વર્ણવ્યાં. પોતે એક વાર એક કાગળમાં no (ના) લખતાં રહી ગયેલા તેનું કેવું પરિણામ આવ્યું તે વર્ણવ્યું. બાને વિષે લખ્યું : "She has aged considerably in some respects perhaps more than I have. Spiritually she has made wonderful progress. {« એ ઘરડી થઈ ગઈ છે, કેટલીક બાબતમાં તો મારા કરતાંયે વધારે. આધ્યાત્મિક દૃષ્ટિએ એણે ગજબ પ્રગતિ સાધી છે.” અને પછી ચરખાને વિશે લખ્યું : " It will take me many incarnations to become disillusioned with the slowness of the Charkha. The slowness of the Charkha is perhaps its most appealing part for me. But it has so many attractions for me that I can never get tired of it. It has a perennial interest for me. Its implications are growing on me and I make discoveries of its beauties almost from day to day. I am not using a sewing machine in its place or at all. I know how the mistake crept into the papers. My right elbow, having been used for turning the wheel, almost without a break for over ten years, began to give pain and the doctors here came to the conclusion that the pain was of the same type that tennis players often have after continuous use of the racquet. They therefore advised complete rest for the elbow. That might have meant cessation of spinning for some time, but for Prabhudas's invention. You know Prabhudas - Chhaganlal's son. His invention consists in turning the wheel with a pedal and thus freeing the right hand also for drawing the thread and practically doubling the output of yarn. I forestalled the doctors by having this wheel brought to me, and before the peremptory order to stop all work with the right elbow came, I was master of the pedal Charkha called 'Magan Charkha' after the late Maganlal. A stupid reporter who knew nothing about the invention, when he heard that I was moving the wheel with the pedal came to the conclusion that I was working at the sewing machine and since there are pressmen good enough to imagine many things of me and impute all sorts of २०८
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