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tion both on Gurudev and myself. I have found no real
conflict between us. I started with a disposition to detect
a conflict between Gurudev and myself but ended with the
glorious discovery that there was none.
Regarding your first question, all I can say is that the
feeling, 1 am all right but there is something wrong with
the institution', betrays self-righteousness. It is killing.
When you feel within yourself that you are all right but
everything around you is wrong, die conclusion which you
should draw for yourself is that everything is all right but
there is something wrong within you.
Gandhiji had allotted half an hour to the function. Just as
he was preparing to leave, Srimati Indira Devi asked a final
question. 'Is there not too much music and dancing here?
Is there not the danger of "the music of the voice drowning
the music of life?' Gandhiji had no time to answer the
question then. Much as he would have loved to prolong his
stay in Santiniketan the mission which had brought him to
Bengal peremptorily called him back to Calcutta. Reluc-
tantly he took leave and boarded the car that was waiting
for him. But his thoughts continued to linger on the scene
he had left behind. From Calcutta he wrote answering
Srimati Indira Devi's question as also some other questions
that had been posed but which he had not the time to
answer:
I have a suspicion that perhaps there is'more of
music than is warranted by life, or I will put the thought
in another way. The music of life is in danger of
being lost in the music of the voice. Why not the
music of the walk, of the march, of every movement
of ours and of every activity? It was not an idle remark
which I made at the Mandir service about the way in
which boys and girls were sitting anyhow in the
Mandir. I think our boys and girls should know how
to walk, how to march, how to sit, how to eat, in short
how to perform every function of life. That is my