#000D REPLIES TO COMMENTS of Shri Somdatta Bhattacharya
Reply to the following line of comment by Shri Somdatta Bhattacharya "... And mind you, despite all this he lost none of his powers, for it was possibly around the same time that he demonstrated the incredible feat of memorizing the first 11 volumes of the Britannica. ..." REPLIES (MY VIEW POINT, I SHALL NOT IMPOSE ON READERS, BUT PL. PERMIT ME TO EXPRESS) 1. Where are the powers? Did Vivekananda really possess such superhuman powers? 2. Swamiji wrote to Mrs. Ole Bull from Los Angeles on 17.1.1900: " ... My powers I passed over to you. I see it . I cannot any more tell from the platform. Don't tell it to anyone — not even to Joe. I am glad. I want rest; not that I am tired, but the next phase will be the miraculous touch and not the tongue — like Ramakrishna's . ..." In this paragraph, Swamiji said that he passed on his powers to Mrs. Ole Bull. Either he must have genuinely believed that he had such miraculous powers. Or he must have been try...