the moral foundation of our society begins to show dangerous cracks and civilisations are undermined. What is truly tragic about it is the fact that the kind of argument that Mahatmaji used by exploiting an event of cosmic disturbances, far better suits the psychology of his opponents than his own and it would not have surprised me at all if they had taken this op portunity of holding him and his followers responsible for the visitation of divine anger. As for us we feel perfectly secure in the faith that our own sins and errors, however enormous, have not got enough force to drag down the structure of creation to ruins. We can depend upon it, sinners and saints, bigots and breakers of conventions. We who are immensely grateful to Mahatmaji for inducing, by his wonderful inspiration, freedom from fear and feebleness in the minds of his countrymen, feel profoundly hurt when any words from his mouth may emphasise elements of unreason in those very minds, unreason which is the fundamental source of all blind powers that drive us against freedom and self-respect, Rabindranath Tagore এই বিবৃতির উত্তরে ও মহাত্মা গান্ধী Harijan পত্রে ( ১৬ ফেব্রুয়ারি ১৯৩৪ ) স্বীয় মন্তব্যে র্তাহার গভীর বিশ্বাস দৃঢ়তার সহিত ব্যক্ত করেন । ৫২৯
