LETTERS FROM ABROAD
chance of my letters not coming at all, and it may become a Lent week for me. Your letters have been a never-failing source of sustenance for my mind all through my days of exile—and you have been so generously lavish in your supply.
To-morrow I am going to start on a tour in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. I feel sure of the welcome awaiting me in those countries. I cannot imagine how I could have merited so great a reward. J feel that I am being greatly overpaid for my service, and one day I shall be called upon to refund the excess, and a great deal more!
There was a proposal made by some friend of mine in England to form a Board of Trustees to help me in my work of Visvabharati. But it is needless so assure you that I am not going to allow my Institution to be tied to the tow-boat of any official body. I know it would have saved me from a great deal of trouble and opposition. But when, by some artificial protection, we save ourselves from trouble in the beginning, it crops up in a worse form in the end.
My letters will grow more and more irregular till they meet their Nirvana in our meeting at Santiniketan.
AUTOUR, DU MONDE, PARIS, April 24, 1921.
When I sent my appeal for an International Institution to the western people I made use of
