11 April :
11 Apr 1895 : Letter to Mrs Ole Bull - Miss Hamlin has been helping me
a good deal. I am very grateful to her. She is very kind and, I hope,
sincere. She wants me to be introduced to the ... "right kind of
people". This is the second edition of the "Hold yourself steady"
business, I am afraid. The only "right sort of people" are those whom
the Lord sends--that is what I understand in my life's experience. They alone can and will help me. As for the rest, Lord help them in a mass and save me from them.
MY DEAR SHASHI,
You write that you have recovered from your illness; but you must
henceforth be very careful. Late dinners or unwholesome food, or living
in a stinking place may bring on a relapse, and make it hard to escape
the clutches of malaria. First of all you should hire a small
garden-house — you may get one for thirty or forty rupees. Secondly, see
that cooking and drinking water be filtered — a bamboo filter of a big
size will do. Water is the cause of all sorts of disease. It is not the
clearness or dirtiness of water, but its being full of disease germs,
that causes disease. Let the water be boiled and filtered. You must all
pay attention to your health first. A cook, a servant, clean beds, and
timely meals — these are absolutely necessary. Please see that all these
suggestions be carried out in toto. . . . The success of your
undertakings depends wholly upon your mutual love. There is no good in
store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. ...
Kali's pamphlet is very well written and has no exaggerations. Know that
talking ill of others in private is a sin. You must wholly avoid it.
Many things may occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a mountain of a
molehill if you try to express them. Everything is ended if you forgive
and forget.....Onward and forward, my old watchword. I am doing well.
No use going back to India in a hurry. Summon all your energies and set
yourselves to work heart and soul; that will really be heroic.
11 Apr 1896 : Reached NY
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