Acharya M. Winternitz,
Before you came to us we had been aware of your reputation as one of the foremost scholars whose knowledge comprehended an amazingly vast field of Indian literature. We felt grateful to you for having accepted our invitation and were proud to be able to receive you as our honoured guest . On the day when we must bid you farewell, let us assure you that our love for your personality has become equal to our reverence for your scholarship, and that though in outward appearence the time of your stay with us has been short, spiritually it has acquired a permanence in our heart.
Through the reticence of your modesty has sweetly shown the love of truth, and the love of manwhich is so completely free from race prejudice, from the narrow spirit of egotism, your intellectual outlook has found its moral background in the unity of man ; and this has strengthened our love for the Viswabharati ideal. In fact, your personal contact with the inmates of this Asrama has been a living contribution to the building up of our Institution which for its materials must never depend upon bricks and mortar, rules and regulations, but upon its faith in human history of the ceaseless endeavour to reach the highest expression of the spiritual meaning of existence.
It is needless to tell you that we have started our Viswabharati with the expectation of attracting round it, from all parts of the world, individuals, who, in the present turmoil of contradiction, still cherish hope in the ultimate triump of the Shantam and Shivam, who in the light of the Adaitam will recognize themselves as brothers when they meet, though belonging to different climates and rcaes. We have found you, dear friend, as one such, and our brothers' greetings we offer to you at this of our parting."
On the next day Rabindranath went along him to the station and helped him to get his seat in the train.
