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#020, Alasinga: Bangalore and then to Ootacamund to pass the summer there. My brain boils in heat

VIVEKANANDA PRACTICE QUOTE Swami Vivekananda wrote to Alasinga Mudaliar from Hyderabad on Feb. 11, 1893. "... For I am very sorry to tell you that I cannot go back at present to Rajputana. It is so very dreadfully hot here already. I do not know how hot it would be at Rajputana, and I cannot bear heat at all . So the next thing, I would do, would be to go back to Bangalore and then to Ootacamund to pass the summer there. My brain boils in heat. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWs *See post on Suka's renunciation *Same gentleman who traversed the entire India on foot! *How do the people of Rajputana live? Another example: Swamiji wrote to Ms. Christina Greenstidel from Jodhpur on Jan. 4, 1898: "... I am quite well and strong. Hope to meet you this blessed year again in America. I am going to Calcutta in a few days, where I intend to be the rest of this cold weather. Next summer, I start for England or America most probably. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWS *January would be cool i

019, Natural food, grass, is so abundant and your Highness' servants are fools

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Swami Vivekananda wants Indians to eat bellyfulls of grass, instead of undergoing all the troubles of serving others !!! Swami Vivekananda wrote to the Ruler of Khetri on May 22, 1893: "...If our digestive apparatus is exactly like that of a cow — we ought and must be able to eat and digest grass. In that case poor Indians are fools to die of starvation in famine times while their natural food, grass, is so abundant, and your Highness' servants are fools to serve you while they have only to get up the nearest hillock and get a bellyful of grass instead of undergoing all the trouble of serving others!!! Grand American discovery indeed!!! Only I hope the holy dungs of such human cows may become of great use to the wonderful American author and his Indian disciple. Amen. So much for the cow-human theory. ..." This writer's comment: Vivekananda wants us to eat grass, whereas we eat rice and wheat which are nothing but different forms of grass seeds. Are we not su