Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

(Swami Vivekananda spoke to his disciple Sharat Chandra Chakravarty. Place: Belur Math. Period: 1897 or 1901-02. Source: Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.) "...Why then do you cherish the idea that the wife and children are your own, more than others? At your very threshold, Nârâyana Himself in the form of a poor beggar is dying of starvation! Instead of giving him anything, would you only satisfy the appetites of your wife and children with delicacies? Why, that is beastly! ... " BLOGGER'S VIEWS * Feeding wife and children is beastly . Foreign women should be invited to share shad fish and turtles. * Sending money to foreign women is manly ! (Swamiji Sent $480 to Ms. Christina Greenstidel inviting her to come to India or spend as she likes!) *Asking Swami Brahmananda to offer only Tulasi leaves to worship in the Belur Math! -- This is monkly . *Craving for cigars, ice creams, luchis, mutton, shad fish, turtles!

Swamiji lectured at Los Angeles, California, on the Jan. 5, 1900: "...Many times I have been in the jaws of death, starving, footsore, and weary; for days and days I had had no food, and often could walk no farther; I would sink down under a tree, and life would seem ebbing away. I could not speak, I could scarcely think, but at last the mind reverted to the idea: "I have no fear nor death; I never hunger nor thirst. I am It! I am It! The whole of nature cannot crush me; it is my servant. Assert thy strength, thou Lord of lords and God of gods! Regain thy lost empire! Arise and walk and stop not!" And I would rise up, reinvigorated, and here am I, living, today. Thus, whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For, after all, it is but a dream. Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ. Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.