#26, All are saints for nothing!
Swami Vivekananda wrote to Rakhal (Brahmananda) from London on the 10th August 1899 from London. "...If all the money even for the magazine is to be collected by me and all the articles too are from my pen — what will you all do? What are our Sahibs then doing? I have finished my part. You do what remains to be done. Nobody is there to collect a single penny, nobody to do any preaching, none has brains enough to take proper care of his own affairs, none has the capacity to write one line, and all are saints for nothing! ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWs *So courteous to brother disciples? This writer's observation: This cannot be the way, a brother-disciple is addressed, though he may not have the skills of lecturing in foreign countries and collecting foreign funds. The tone of Swamiji's letters changed to a somewhat "bitter" and "pungent" language, including self-pity. This change seems to be more pronounced after Mr. Sturdy and Mrs. Ole Bull as...