12 February :
12 Feb 1893 : Swami Vivekananda met Sri Khurshid Jah, Premier of
Hyderabad State - discussed on Hindu, Islam & Christianity - Prince
promised to give Rs 1000/- for Swamiji's America visit to preach 'the
gospel of Eternal Religion'
12 Feb 1896 : Lecture: "Steps of Hindu
philosophical thought" (The highest ideal of Jnana Yoga) at NY -Those of
you who are non-dualists look back to the period
of your lives when you were strong dualists. As soon as you think you
are a body and a mind, you will have to take the whole of this dream. If
you take one portion, you must take the whole. The man who says, here
is this world, and there is no (Personal) God, is a fool; because if
there is a world, there will have to be a cause, and that is what is
called God. You cannot have an effect without knowing that there is a
cause. God will only vanish when this world vanishes; then you will
become God (Absolute), and this world will be no longer for you. So long
as the dream that you are a body exists, you are bound to see yourself
as being born and dying; but as soon as that dream vanishes, so will the
dream vanish that you are being born and dying, and so will the other
dream that there is a universe vanish. That very thing which we now see
as the universe will appear to us as God (Absolute), and that very God
who has so long been external will appear to be internal, as our own
Self.
12 Feb 1897 - in a letter to Swami Brahmananda, he writes -
The Theosophists and others wanted to intimidate me. Therefore I had to
give them a bit of my mind. You know they persecuted me all the time in
America, because I did not join them. They wanted to begin it here. So I
had to clear my position. If that displeases any of my Calcutta
friends, "God help them". You need not be afraid, I do not work alone,
but He is always with me. What could I do otherwise?
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