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#170, why do they not go to Ceylon, where they will find their fellows

VIVEKANANDA'S OPINION ABOUT LOVE POETS? SHOULD LOVE POETS BE PACKED TO CEYLON? Vivekananda looks down upon poets who write poems of failed love. He wants the Government to seize and pack them off to Sri Lanka. This disdain of his towards Love poets (Bhav Kavis?) , he expresses in his Memoirs of European Travel, describing his voyage from Kolkata to Sri Lanka via Chennai (1899), enroute to Europe (second visit). "... That new type of people who are springing in Bengal — dressed like women, speaking in soft and delicate accents, walking with a timid, faltering gait, unable to look any one in the face and from their very birth given to writing love poems and suffering the pangs of separation from their beloved — well, why do they not go to Ceylon, where they will find their fellows! Are the Government asleep? The other day they created a great row trying to capture some people in Puri. Why, in the metropolis itself are many worth seizing and packing off! ..." BLOGGER&#

#169, My misery is my brothers, sisters and mother

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Mary Hale in 1897: "... I wish I had nobody to love, and I were an orphan in my childhood. The greatest misery in my life has been my own people — my brothers and sisters and mother etc. Relatives are like deadly clogs to one's progress, ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWs *Should he tell it to foreign ladies? *Sister and mother may be clogs. But aunt and cousin are not. Vivekananda does not hesitate to mobilise funds for his cousin, aunt et al. quote: He wrote to Ms. Ole Bull from San Francisco on the 18th May 1900: "...Mrs. [James Henry] Sevier gave me 6,000 Rs. for family — this was distributed between my cousin, aunt, etc. The 5,000 Rs. for buying the house was borrowed from the Math funds. Do not stop the remittance you send to my cousin , whatever Saradananda may say to the contrary. Of course I do not know what he says...." *The second visit to US was for mobilising funds for his personal expenses and for his aunts, cousins etc.

#168, The very name of these Math people is enough to frighten me

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Mrs. Ole Bull from US, on 15th Nov. 1899: "...Again I am so nervous of going to a place where indirectly the Indian Math will be. The very name of these Math people is enough to frighten me. And they are determined to kill with these letters etc. ...". BLOGGER'S VIEWs *Why he was nervous? *Why did Math people frighten him? *Why did they kill him with letters? *Why did he hide himself from his brother disciples?