26 January :
26 Jan 1897 : Swami Vivekananda started from Jaffana and reached Pamban
where Raja of Ramnad prostrated before Him. As he bent his knees - the
place is now known as KUNDKAL (Kund means to bend and Kal means legs in
Tamil). The Raja spoke with all feeling after the welcome address. Swami
Vivekananda replied : Dharma is the backbone and all developments would
be done through that alone...We Hindus
have now been placed, under God's providence, in a very critical and
responsible position. The nations of the West are coming to us for
spiritual help..
26 Jan 1899 : Letter to Sister Christine - I have
carefully weighed your plans for coming over. I will be ever so glad to
see you, you know it well; but, my dear, the Indian summer will not suit
you, and if you start now it will be midsummer when you reach India.
Then, you must not hope of making any living here. It is impossible for
me to make a living most times in my own country. Then all the
surroundings are so, so wretched and different from what you see around
you, e.g. you will find me going about in loin-cloth--will that shock
you? Three-fourths of the population only wearing a strip of white cloth
about their loins--can you bear that?....Things must be as "Mother"
wishes. Ours is only to obey and work.
26 Jan 1901 : Letter to Mrs
Ole Bull - I am going to take my mother on pilgrimage next week. It may
take months to make the complete round of pilgrimages. This is the one
great wish of a Hindu widow. I have brought only misery to my people all
my life. I am trying at least to fulfil this one wish of hers.
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