Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Swami Vivekananda, wrote from Almora, to Ms. Joe Joe (Josephine Macleod) on July 10, 1897: "... I have taken to the Himalayas, tired of lecturing and orating. I am so sorry the doctors would not allow my going over with the Raja of Khetri to England , and that has made Sturdy mad. The Seviers are at Simla and Miss Müller here in Almora. The plague has subsided, but the famine is still here, and as it looks (on account of no rain as yet), it may wear yet a terrible aspect. I am very busy from here directing work by my boys in some of the famine districts. ... " BLOGGER'S VIEW Swamiji is sorry because he could not go to England with the ruler of Khetri for attending the Victoria Jubilee Function (Jubilee of Queen Victoria's Coronation). Vivekananda was said to be a great patriot. But he was craving to accompany a servile ruler who was visiting England to fall at the feet of the Queen, at a time when the country was reeling under Plague and famine which he h...

Most Indians, like the Western Citizens, suffer from numerous idiosyncrasies, whether they disclose or not, whether they accept or not. Swami Vivekananda, apparently hated wearing kaupIn (loin cloth), which is a common garment for Indian Hindu Monks. It seems, that after Swami Vivekananda came back to India in 1897 after spending his days in U.S.A. and U.K., some elders at Dakshineswar or Belur might have pressurised him to wear kaupin, in the place of underwear. Unfortunately or incidentally, during the period, Vivekananda was diagnosed for diabetes. Swamiji attributed wearing kaupin as one of the reasons for his catching diabetes. He cites his brother disciple Saradananada, as somebody who resisted wearing the kaupin and escaped from diabetes. Swami Vivekananda wrote to Mr. E.T. Sturdy from Ridgely Manor, on Sept. 14, 1899: "...In India the moment I landed they made me shave my head and wear "Kaupin" (loin cloth), with the result that I got diabetes etc. Sar...