#010, boiled cabbage and potatoes and boiled rice and boiled lentils, three times a day
Question: How a Sanyaasi living on Bhiksaas`ana (alms) conduct himself particularly in his eating and other habits? During his second stay in US, Swami Vivekananda wrote to Mr. E.T. Sturdy one of his hosts in England during his first visit. Mr. Sturdy was a Sanskrit scholar. It appears that Vivekananda and Mr. Sturdy did some joint collaborative work in writing and publishing books. We can find from Vivekananda's letter that Mr. Sturdy took Vivekananda to his home as a guest and got him served by his wife meals three times a day. Thereafter, Vivekananda seems to have moved to a Hotel Room with the help of Miss Muller. When Vivekananda visited England and US second time in 1899, some misunderstandings seem to have developed between Mr. Sturdy and Vivekananda and Miss Muller and Vivekananda. According to Swami Vivekananda's letter of Nov. 1899 addressed to Mr. Sturdy, it is a reply addressed to the later for expressing a view about luxuries provided to Vivekananda durin