"We have just finished our prayer in Naba Barsha and my mind is fully satisfied. I was thinking of going to somewhere. Last time, before going to London, restlessness got me. This time also similar feeling arrested me.But there was no way of going to foreign due to War. But when I got the invitation from America I felt that the blockage had been removed because invitation had come from the great country. I thought many times, tasted myself and found that I was not born for maintaining a family life to be stationed at a particular place. Perhaps for this reason I was roaming from this place to that throughout my life. From my very childhood I could not settle anywhere. The world had welcome me and I too was moving through the path used by travellers.
He came to Calcutta to get a reservation in a ship. He intimated the concerned authority but after many attempts he could not get seats in a ship which he got with the help of the then Japan's Consulate on 29th April, 1916. Pearson and Andrews would accompany him and Mukul was to go with them as a passenger in a deck. .
Rabindranath informed all that he would receive any letter addressed to Indo-Japanese Association, Tokyo.
