Friday 10 May 2013

6th April Swami Vivekananda Life

6 April :

6 Apr 1896 : Letter To Mrs. Bull from Indiana Ave, Chicago, Ill.
Ref : Letter XCV [CW-VI, p360]

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_6/epistles_second_series/095_mrs_bull.htm

6 Apr 1896 : Letter To Sister Christine from 1628 Indiana Ave, Chicago, Ill.

... "the mind is omnipresent and can be, hear, and feel anywhere."

Ref : Letters XC (Fifth Series) [CW-IX, p83]

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_9/letters_fifth_series/090_christina.htm

6 Apr 1897 : Letter To Shrimati Sarala Ghoshal -- Editor, Bharati from Darjeeling

"May the Lord grant that many women like you be born in this country, and devote their lives to the betterment of their motherland!

I have something to say in regard to the article you have written about me in the Bharati. It is this. It has been for the good of India that religious preaching in the West has been and will be done. It has ever been my conviction that we shall not be able to rise unless the Western people come to our help. In this country no appreciation of merit can yet be found, no financial strength, and what is most lamentable of all, there is not a bit of practicality.

There are many things to be done, but means are wanting in this country. We have brains, but no hands.

We have the doctrine of Vedanta, but we have not the power to reduce it into practice. In our books there is the doctrine of universal equality, but in work we make great distinctions. It was in India that unselfish and disinterested work of the most exalted type was preached; but in practice we are awfully cruel, awfully heartless -- unable to think of anything besides our own mass - of - flesh bodies.

Yet it is only through the present state of things that it is possible to proceed to work. There is no other way. Every one has the power to judge of good and evil, but he is the hero who undaunted by the waves of Samsara -- which is full of errors, delusions, and miseries -- with one hand wipes the tears, and with the other, unshaken, shows the path of deliverance. On the one hand there is the conservative society, like a mass of inert matter; on the other, the restless, impatient, fire - darting reformer; the way to good lies between the two. I heard in Japan that it was the belief of the girls of that country that their dolls would be animated if they were loved with all their heart. The Japanese girl never breaks her doll. O you of great fortune! I too believe that India will awake again if anyone could love with all his heart the people of the country -- bereft of the grace of affluence, of blasted fortune, their discretion totally lost, downtrodden, ever - starved, quarrelsome, and envious. Then only will India awake, when hundreds of large - hearted men and women, giving up all desires of enjoying the luxuries of life, will long and exert themselves to their utmost for the well - being of the millions of their countrymen who are gradually sinking lower and lower in the vortex of destitution and ignorance. I have experienced even in my insignificant life that good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes."

Ref : Letters LXXIV [CW-V, p126]

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_5/epistles_first_series/074_honoured_madam.htm

6th April, 1900 : Letter To Sister Nivedita from U.S.A.

..."The mind is omnipresent and can be heard and felt anywhere."

Ref : EPISTLES (Fourth Series) - CLXXI [CW VIII, p512]

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_8/epistles_fourth_series/171_margot.htm


From : http://www.vivekananda150jayanti.org/vivekvani/todays-special/06-april/Letters-to-Mrs-Bull-Sister-Christine-Sarala-Ghoshal-Sister-Nivedita

Ref Link : http://www.vivekananda150jayanti.org/vivekvani/todays-special/06-april/Letters-to-Mrs-Bull-Sister-Christine-Sarala-Ghoshal-Sister-Nivedita

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