From Epistles-Second Series of Volume 6 of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

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NEW YORK,

2nd July, 1900.

DEAR NIVEDITA,

. . . Mother knows, as I always say. Pray to Mother. It is hard work to be a leader — one must crush all one’s own self under the feet of the community. . . .

Yours etc.,

VIVEKANANDA.