Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Isabelle McKIndley from US on May 2, 1894: ".... I hate only one thing in the world — hypocrisy." "...So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold educated man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense is not the least heed to them..." "... Yesterday I bought a pipe for $13. --meerschaum do not tell it to Father Pope. The coat will cost $30. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEW *So long as millions live in hunger, will Swamiji buy coats and pipes and yet not remain a traitor? He was living on the generosity of high society women in USA. Of course, he was making sizeable amounts by delivering lectures, where admission was by tickets. Theese prices were of 1894 when the average monthly income of American families would have been something like US$ 40/- per month.

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Shrimati Saralâ Ghosal, Editor, Bhârati, from Darjeeling, 24th April, 1897. "...so long as vegetable food is not made suitable to the human system through progress in chemistry, there is no other alternative but meat-eating. So long as man shall have to live a Râjasika (active) life under circumstances like the present, there is no other way except through meat-eating. It is true that the Emperor Asoka saved the lives of millions of animals by the threat of the sword; but is not the slavery of a thousand years more dreadful than that? Taking the life of a few goats as against the inability to protect the honour of one's own wife and daughter, and to save the morsels for one's children from robbing hands — which of these is more sinful? " BLOGGER'S VIEW Swamiji's thinking about vegetarianism appears to be skewed. 1. Swamiji identified vegetarianism as the principal cause for the weakening of the Indians from Ashoka's rule and th...

Swami Vivekananda wrote in his COMPLETE WORKS (Volume 5) "We are vegetarians — most of our diseases are of the stomach; our old men and women generally die of stomach complaints. They of the West take meat — most of their diseases are of the heart; their old men and women generally die of heart or lung diseases. A learned doctor of the West observes that the people who have chronic stomach complaints generally tend to a melancholy and renouncing nature, and the people suffering from complaints of the heart and the upper parts of the body have always hope and faith to the last ; the cholera patient is from the very beginning afraid of death, while the consumptive patient hopes to the last moment that he will recover. "Is it owing to this," my doctor friend may with good reasoning ask, " that the Indians always talk and think of death and renunciation ?" As yet I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer to this; but the question seems to have an air of tr...

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Sister Nivedita from Almora on June 3, 1897: "... the world is so little, life so mean a thing, existence so, so servile, that I wonder and smile that human beings, rational souls, should be running after this self — so mean and detestable a prize. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEW If the life is so mean, existence is so servile, and the world is so little, why should Swamiji crave for meat,shad fish, turtles and barfi, and photos of a plump lady? Why should he beg for Dollars from American women? "...How I wish you were here to taste our shads — one of the most delicate fish in the world. It is raining outside — pouring. But the moment this downpour ceases, I rain through every pore — it is so hot yet. My whole body is covered by big patches of prickly heat. Thank goodness there are no ladies about! If I had to cover myself in this state of things, I surely would go crazy. I have also my theme, but I am not despondent. I am sure very soon to pan it out...