He notes with deep satisfaction the important steps taken by your N.S.A.
for intensifying the spread of the Cause throughout India and Burma, and
particularly values the encouragement and help which they have extended to
dear Mr. Pritam Singh in his teaching tour in Northern India. He is
praying from the depth of his heart for the success of this trip, as well
as for the speedy and complete materialisation of the plans which you, in
close collaboration with your fellow-members in the National Assembly, are
initiating for the wider diffusion of the teachings throughout your
country.
He fully appreciates, indeed, the suggestions you have offered him in this
connection. The lack of competent teachers is no doubt a serious obstacle
facing the Indian believers at present. But it is by no means the most
difficult problem with which they have to deal. The essential is that all
the friends, without any exception whatever, should realise the full
measure of the responsibility which Baha'u'llah has placed on them for
teaching far and wide His Message. It is only through such an awakened
consciousness of their heavy and sacred responsibilities and duties that
the believers can hope to effectively promote and safeguard the interests
of the Cause. The Baha'i era is thus the age of individual
responsibility--the age in which everyone is called to consider the spread
of the Cause as his most sacred and vital obligation.
This is the point which the Guardian wishes your Assembly to emphasize in
connection with the problem of teaching in India. He hopes that through
their collective efforts a new zeal for teaching will come to animate the
entire community of the believers throughout India and Burma.
Shoghi Effendi approves of your suggestion to utilize the fifty pounds
which he sent to you, for the publication of the Bengali translation of
the "New Era". He hopes that this work will soon be ready for
distribution.