Wednesday 5 June 2013

24th May Swami Vivekananda Life

24th May, 1893:
 
Letter to Shrimati Indumati Mitra

I cannot go to Belgaum now as arrangements are all ready for my starting for America on the 31st next. The Lord willing, I shall see you on returning from my travels in America and Europe. Always resign yourselves to the Lord Shri Krishna. Always remember that we are but puppets in the Lord's hands. Remain pure always. Please be careful not to become impure even in thought, as also in speech and action; always try to do good to others as far as in you lies. And remember hat the paramount duty of a woman is to serve her husband by thought, word, and deed. Please read the Gita every day to the best of your opportunity. Why have you signed yourself as . . . Dasi (maidservant)? The Vaishya and the Shudra should sign as Dasa and Dasi, but the Brahmin and Kshatriya should write Deva and Devi (goddess). Moreover, these distinctions of caste and the like have been the invention of our modern sapient Brahmins. Who is a servant, and to whom? Everyone is a servant of the Lord Hari. Hence a woman should use her patronymic, that is, the surname of her husband. This is the ancient Vedic custom, as for example, such and such Mitra, or the like. It is needless to write much, dear mother; always know that I am constantly praying for your well - being.



24th May, 1894:
 
Letter to Adhyapakji

I hope, after your perusal, you will kindly send the letters over to me, except the pamphlet which I do not care for. I am bound, my dear friend, to give you every satisfaction of my being a genuine Sannyasin, but to you alone. I do not care what the rabbles say or think about me. "Some would call you a saint, some a chandala ; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either"-- thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

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