Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

I promised to write some thing very positive about Swamy Vivekananda. One of the finest talks he gave in USA, I tried to pick up. This is the lecture he gave at Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, California on 27th Jan. 1900. The original subject for his talk was Vedanta Philosophy, but he said that it was interesting, but rather dry and vast. Here is the link for the lecture where you can see the whole text: http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_9/vol_9_frame.htm . The talk is superb. It arouses sympathy for Vivekananda and the poor of India. But some lines have tempted me to compare with facts of 1890-93 and Jan.1900 and the surrounding circumstances. In the speech he said: "... I would have to go from house to house to collect sufficient for one meal. And then the bread was so hard, it made my mouth bleed to eat it. Literally, you can break your teeth on that bread. Then I would put it in a pot and pour over it water from the river. For months and months I...

Swami Vivekananda considered relatives as deadly clogs to one's progress. He wrote to Ms. Marie Halboister from Almora on July 25, 1897. At some other places, he showed some feelings of love towards his mother. "... I wish I had nobody to love, and I were an orphan in my childhood. The greatest misery in my life has been my own people — my brothers and sisters and mother etc. Relatives are like deadly clogs to one's progress, and is it not a wonder that people will still go on to find new ones by marriage!!! ... " Brother: MAHENDRANATH DATTA (MOHIN) Swami Vivekananda wrote to to John Fox, Mass., U.S.A. from Paris on 14th August 1900: "Kindly write Mohin that he has my blessings in whatever he does. ... I am proud of him ." Vivekananda wrote to Mrs. Ole Bull from Daccaon the 20th March 1901, about his younger brother: "... Mohin [Mahendranath Datta], my brother, is in India, in Karachi near Bombay, and he corresponds with Saradananda. He ...