LETTER-29
Dear.................*
…Take
courage and work on. Patience and steady work — this is the only way. Go on;
remember — patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as
you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail — Mother will never
leave you, and all blessings will be yours.
Yours with love,
VIVEKANANDA.
*[You
may treat these letters as if addressed to you]
SOURCE: The Complete Works of Swami
Vivekananda,
Volume-5 [Epistles-First
Series-LIII]
LETTER-30
Dear.................*
As
for me, mind you, I stand at nobody's dictation. I know my mission in life, and
no chauvinism about me; I belong as much
to India as to the world, no humbug about that. … What country has any
special claim on me? Am I any nation's slave?
…I see a greater Power than man, or God, or
devil at my back. I require nobody's help. I have been all my life helping
others. . . .
Do
you mean to say I am born to live and die one of those caste-ridden,
superstitious, merciless, hypocritical, atheistic cowards that you find only
amongst the educated Hindus? I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with
cowards or political nonsense. I do not believe in any politics. God and truth are
the only politics in the world, everything else is trash.
Ever yours with
blessings,
VIVEKANANDA.
*[You
may treat these letters as if addressed to you]
SOURCE: The Complete Works of Swami
Vivekananda,
Volume-5 [Epistles-First
Series-LII]
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