This was Monday, the day of Gandhiji's weekly silence. So he wrote considerably more than his normal written output. Another note this morning was addressed to Dr. Amiya Chakravarty of Calcutta University, who had called at the Ashram. In it, Gandhiji showed that while he recoiled in horror at mass massacres of human beings, individual deaths caused him little grief. It is in reality no loss.
Death is but a sleep and a forgetting.
So far as I know, happily there is no meeting in the beyond as we have it here. When the isolated drops of individual lives melt, they share the majesty of the Great Ocean to which they belong. I do not know whether I have been clear enough to give you comfort. Right in the middle of vicissitudes great and small, there winds through and through, a golden thread of eternal continuity. Amidst death and destruction, occur birth and life.