These views and convictions had been very strongly agitating my mind even before 30th January 48. But Mahatmaji’s tragic demise has aggravated the agitation to its highest pitch, and I now find myself unable to resist some sort of an inner urge that I should not, under any circumstances, allow myself to any further postpone the putting into action, be it in my own way, of these very deep-rooted and irresistibly persistent convictions. I therefore hereby announce, and intimate to all men and women that people India’ and World, that I shall and should hence-forth (i. e. On and from 4-4-48) call myself and be called “Franklin Ram Mahomed”, and appeal to them all, as well, to rename themselves in the manner suggested, and to thus hasten the alighting on this, Mother Earth of ours the Goddesses of Peace, Amity and Happiness.
