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#040, Akhanda: Trust only wealthy householders

DISTRUST POOR HOUSEHOLDERS! THEY TAKE TO TRICKS TO FILL THEIR WANTS! RICH WILL NOT DO! Swami Vivekananda advised his brother disciple Swami Akhandananda to keep funds in custody of trusty HOUSEHOLDER OF WEALTH . Vivekananda wrote to Swami Akhandananda fro London on the 13th November 1895. "... Whenever you hear of any householder collecting funds in my or our name on the plea of erecting a Math, or some such thing, the first thing you should do is to distrust him, and never set your hand to it. The more so, as householders of poor means take to various tricks to supply their wants . Therefore, if ever a trusty devotee or a householder with a heart, being of affluent circumstances, undertakes such works as the founding of a Math, or if the funds raised be kept in the custody of a trusty householder of wealth — well and good, otherwise never have a hand in it. ... " BLOGGER'S VIEWS *Are only wealthy persons trustworthy? *Do householders of poor means take to various tri...

#039, Now this tremendous regulation of law is there

Swami Vivekananda in his Complete Works consisting of nine volumes does not anywhere mention anything about Karl Marx or Marxism. A person who professes to think day and night about the ways of serving the poor (called "daridra Narayan") does not think it fit enough to mention even a word about Karl Marx, his Communist Manifesto. At about five places he makes a mention about socialism but nothing about social ownership of productive assets is discussed. VIVEKANANDA THEORY: SPEECH Swamy Vivekananda's speech "Buddhist India" at Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, California, on 2nd Feb. 1900: "...The more of law you make, the more of police and socialism, the more of blackguards there are. Now this tremendous regulation of law [is] there. As soon as a child is born, he knows that he is born a slave: slave to his caste, first; slave to his nation, next. Slave, slave, slave. Every action - his drinking and his eating. He must eat under a regular method; this prayer wi...