#157 , LAST LETTER TO MRS. BULL
Swami Vivekananda wrote to Mrs. Ole Bull, from Belur Math, on June 14, 1902, just twenty days before his passing away. "... The Roman Catholics and the Hindus, holding marriage sacred and inviolate, have produced great chaste men and women of immense power. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEW Throughout his life, Swamiji spurned at Hindu youth getting married. Now, Swamiji is lifting the Hinduism and Roman Catholicism. Who are all these chaste men and women which the Hindus and the Catholics produced? By default, we get a meaning that Protestants failed to produce chaste men and women! The Protestants also hold the institution of marriage as sacred and inviolate. Vide ibid: Swamiji wrote: Modern Buddhism — having fallen among races who had not yet come up to the evolution of marriage — has made a travesty of monasticism . So until there is developed in Japan a great and sacred ideal about marriage (apart from mutual attraction and love), I do not see how there can be great monks and...