#85, GANDHIJI TAKEN ABACK BY NIVEDITA'S SPLENDOR
Swami Vivekananda spoke of poor all the time. One will be surprised to learn that he used imported furniture in a well-maintained spacious room in Belur Math. It is said that the expensive furniture was gifted to him by his foreign disciples. His disciple Sister Nivedita too stayed at the Belur Math. In 1901, after attending the Calcutta Session, Mahatma Gandhi went to see Swami Vivekananda at his Belur Math. Gandhiji could not meet him, as he was told that Swamiji was staying at his Calcutta House lying ill and could not be seen . Then he went to see Sister Nivedita in a Chowringhee mansion. Gandhiji was taken aback by the splendour that surrounded her. Gandhiji wrote in his "My Experiments with Truth", Volume 3: "... Having seen enough of the Brahmo Samaj, it was impossible to be satisfied without seeing Swami Vivekanand. So with great enthusiasm I went to Belur Math, mostly, or maybe all the way, on foot. I loved the sequestered site of the Math. I was disappo...