3 June:
To Sister Nivedita
ALMORA,
ALMORA,
3rd June, 1897:
DEAR MISS NOBLE,
As for myself I am quite content. I have roused a good many of
our people, and that was all I wanted. Let things have their course and
Karma its sway. I have no bonds here below. I have seen life, and it is
all self — life is for self, love for self, honour for self, everything
for self. I look back and scarcely find any action
I have done for self — even my wicked deeds were not for self. So I am
content; not that I feel I have done anything specially good or great,
but the world is so little, life so mean a thing, existence so, so
servile — that I wonder and smile that human beings, rational souls,
should be running after this self — so mean and detestable a prize.
This is the truth. We are caught in a trap, and the sooner one gets out,
the better for one. I have seen the truth — let the body float up or
down, who cares?
I was born for the life of a scholar — retired, quiet, poring over my books. But the Mother dispenses otherwise — yet the tendency is there.
I was born for the life of a scholar — retired, quiet, poring over my books. But the Mother dispenses otherwise — yet the tendency is there.
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