Letter to Isabelle Mckindley 02

From Epistles – First Series of Volume 5 of The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda XVI Boston, 26th Sept, 1894. Dear Sister, [1] Your letter with the India mail just to hand. A quantity of newspaper clippings were sent over to me from India. I send them back...

Letter to Shri Alasinga Perumal 33

There is yet a vast untrodden field, namely — the writing of the lives and works of Tulasidâsa, Kabir, Nânak, and of the saints of Southern India. They should be written in a thorough-going, scholarly style, and not in a slipshod, slovenly way.

Letter to Mr. Kidi 01

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

Letter to Mr. Alasinga Perumal 08

I have made some nice friends here amongst the liberal people, and a few amongst the orthodox. I hope to return soon to India — I have had enough of this country and especially as too much work is making me nervous. The giving of too many public lectures and constant hurry have brought on this nervousness.

Letter to Pandit Shankarlal of Khetri

In all our philosophies, we always find hair-splitting arguments, taking for granted some general proposition, but the proposition itself may be as childish as possible. Nobody ever asked or searched the truth of these general propositions.