[In a long letter to Ramchandra Gadekar, who was ailing with cancer, dated 1 February 1959, Baba wrote:]
Baba knows how you have taken, and are taking great pains to spread your beloved Baba’s message of Love and Truth in Poona and elsewhere — wherever you are posted. All this labor of love will never and cannot go in vain.
Baba also knows how much pain and discomfort you are undergoing at present due to the swollen glands. All this pain should never be taken by you as “paying for your sins.” No! It is to give you greater opportunity to remember Baba more frequently. Baba wants you to bear the pain patiently in loving him the more.
-www.lordmeher.org, p4496