#105, leave the peasants and labourers to look to their own problem
The general impression is that Swami Vivekananda did great service to the peasants and landless. This is because of his sloganistic approaches. I am unable to trace from his Complete Works, even a single instance where he met the peasants, agricultural laborers or the urban poor. The only one instance we come across his meeting workers, is about his cooking food and serving to the workers engaged in constructing the Belur Math Building, during his last days. Very little is found in Vivekananda literature which discusses the real life grass root work place problems of the peasants, agricultural laborers, rural artisans and other workers. The following paragraph of his letter dated Feb. 21, 1900 to Swami Akhandananda, his brother-disciple, from California, USA gives an indication about his approach to problems of the peasants and workers. "... The moment they will come to understand their own condition and feel the necessity of help and improvement, know that your work is taking ...