Dear Shri Naresh,

Mumbai 2nd Sept, 1966 Sasneha Namaskar. Your letter was a pleasant surprise. Pleasant: because it gave me a feeling of enjoying, at least for a few moments, your happy company. Surprise: because I did not expect you to write to me from such a far off land.. It is well known that a child begins to know something about itself only through its experience of others. There weng similar examples of persons who could know their motherland and their people more intimately and vividly only on a foreign soil. There is no wonder, therefore, if you start experiencing a sort of a transformation of your ownself, and your ideas about this country, as a result of your sojourning abroad for some time. The only thing that will help accelerating this useful realisa-tion is the spirit of curiosity, research and scholarship that will not stop half way but strive hard to reach the very roots or the fundamentals of the things you may come across during your stay abroad. You have, indeed, a great future. I am not saying this on the basis of any knowledge about stars which are supposed to influence human affairs. I say this because God has endowed you with wonderful talents and potentialities which, if deve-loped and not dissipated, would make you a man with a capital H. Do not, therefore, waste your time and energies in unnece-Bsary brooding over things which are, at present, beyond your control. Utilise the time fully and dive deep into the subjects of your study, both academical and otherwise, realising fully well that the present opportunity is, in fact, a sacred duty which the kind destiny has called upon you to fulfil so that you get yourself properly equipped to shoulder greater respon-sibilities ahead. I am fully engrossed in the implementation of the Vive-kananda Rock Memorial Project, Kanyakumari. It will keep me so engaged for atleast two and half years more. I hope this finds you in good health and spirits. Yours Affectionately,