Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Mary Hale, from Darjeeling, on Apr. 28, 1897. " ... Dr. Barrows has reached America by this time, I hope. Poor man! He came here to preach the most bigoted Christianity, with the usual result that nobody listened to him. Of course they received him very kindly; but it was my letter that did it. I could not put brains into him! Moreover, he seems to be a queer sort of man. I hear that he was mad at the national rejoicings over my coming home. You ought to have sent a brainier man anyway, for the Parliament of Religions has been made a farce of in the Hindu mind by Dr. Barrows. ..." Rev. Dr. Barrows was second in command at the World Parliament of Religions. He played a significant role in recording all the praise for Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament. BLOGGER'S VIEWs *Was Swamiji brainier than Barrows? *If there was no Swamiji's letter, would nobody receive Dr. Barrows? *How can a queer person organise a World Parliament? *Attributi...

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...

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.

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?

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Mrs. Ole Bull from Alam Bazar Math, Calcutta on Feb. 25, 1897. "...The safest way is to put the money in a bank in America in your and my name jointly, so that either of us may draw it. In case I die before the money is employed, you will be able to draw it all and put it to the use I wanted. So that, in case of my death, none of my people would be able to meddle with it. The English money has been put in the bank in the same position in the joint names of Mr. Sturdy and myself. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWs *Obvious that Swamiji did not trust his own brother disciples including Brahmananda, Akhandananda, Saradananda, Shivananda et al.

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Christina Greenstidel from Belur Monastery on Nov. 25, 1901: " ... We cannot keep chickens here — they are forbidden to us. ..." . BLOGGER'S VIEWs *How many Bengalee customs did Swamiji respect? *If chicken were kept, what would have been their fate? They would have been eventually culled. How many animals did Swamiji keep out of compassion?

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Saradananda from U.S.A. on May 18, 1894: "... I can have but one opinion of that — condemnation! I hate the very name of marriage, in regard to a boy or a girl. Do you mean to say that I have to help in putting someone into bondage, you fool! If my brother Mohin marries, I will throw him off. I am very decided about that. . . . " BLOGGER'S VIEWs *If somebody campaigns for anti-smoking or anti-alcoholism, Swamiji calls them fanatics and curses that they will suffer from bad liver, dyspepsia etc. He will not like others marry. Foreigners are welcome to marry, provided they give some money. *Why marry? Spend hours looking at photos of women to observe whether they have become plump or lean?