Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Ms. Mary Louise Burke was a biographer of Swami Vivekananda. She was his disciple. She described Swamiji's encounter with Prof. Deussen of Germany. This interview was of 1896 when Swamiji visited Germany and Alps (Switzerland). Prof. Deussen "...“You seem to be a queer sort of saint....You eat well, you drink well, you smoke all day, and you deprive yourself of nothing.” SWAMI VIVEKANANDA “I observe my vows.” PROF. DEUSSEN “And what consists of your vows?” SWAMI VIVEKANANDA “They require me simply Kama Kanchana Viraha, to renounce sex and gold” (Burke IV: 283-288)." BLOGGER'S ANALYSIS Dec. 1897. Manmathnath Ganguli's reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda. "...There was a solid gold chain, around his neck. attached to a gold watch in his pocket, and it matched very nicely with his fair complexion. One of the young men touched the chain with his fingers and said, "It is very beautiful." At once Swamiji took the watch out of his pocket and put t...

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Ole Bull from San Francisco on the 1st April 1900: "Your kind note came this morning. I am so happy to learn that all the New York friends are being cured by Mrs. Milton. She has been very unsuccessful, it seems, in Los Angeles, as all the people we introduced tell me. Some are in a worse state than before the skin paring. Kindly give Mrs. Milton my love; her rubbings used to do me good at the time at least. Poor Dr. Hiller! We send him over post-haste to Los Angeles to get his wife cured. You ought to have seen him the other morning and heard him too! Mrs. Hiller, it appears, is many times worse for all the rubbings given; and she is only a few bones; and, above all, the doctor had to spend 500 dollars in Los Angeles. That makes him feel very bad. I, of course, would not write this to Joe; she is happy in her dreams of having done so much good to poor sufferers. But oh, if she could hear the Los Angeles folks and this old Dr. Hiller, she would chang...