After the Poona workers meeting, K. K. Ramakrishnan sent Baba a letter expressing his discouragement, and asked to be relieved of his responsibilities as secretary of the Poona Center. On 16 October, Baba sent him this reply: “A true lover has not only to face such situations of storm and stress, thick and thin, but has also to wade through them neck-deep to have the embrace of the Beloved of his heart.”
-www.lordmeher.org, p5046
October 1963; Meherazad