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૧૪૮ પોલાકને કાગળ પોલાકને જવાબ આપ્યો : "This is just 4-20 A. M. after morning prayer. I got your letter of the 7th inst. yesterday. The value I attach to your letter you will perceive from the fact that I am devoting to the reply my most precious hour. The value lies in that it is an expression of your love and sincerity. It has little or no value as an agency designed to carry conviction. If I have erred, I should love to have the conviction even after the event, since it would serve to protect me against repetition of the error. But I miss that conviction. "I see that though our mutual love remains the same, our view-points have become different, our way of approaching things has also become different. We have therefore to agree to differ. "In this matter I had thought that even if everybody else would not understand my action, you and Millie would instinctively perceive it and become my shield. But that pleasure was not to be mine. I derive however the richer pleasure that our love can persist even in spite of political and spiritual differences. I was unprepared for the latter. But I see that political, social and the like are inextricably mixed up with and derived from the spiritual outlook. Therefore when we have sharp political differences, the odds are that they are traceable to the spiritual "You seem to have missed the very core of the fast. You have to go back to my speech at the Minorities Committee. It was not a prepared speech. The end of it came irresistibly. The fast was an inevitable result of that solemn declaration. I little knew how that declaration was to find fulfilment. I say that the declaration was from God and so was the fulfilment. If it was so, all argument is useless. If it was a hallucination, friends who believe it to be such are bound to drive home the truth to me with all the love and persistence they can summon to their assistance. "Everything that happened since confirms me in the opinion that the fast was a God-given trust.
