Dear one,
I was very glad to have your letter. There is no need for long plans now; do whatever is possible under existing circumstances. Little by little the way will open to you. An orphanage you must certainly have; what doubt is there about that? The girl must not be turned away either. But for a girls' orphanage you need a woman superintendent; I believe ‘—’ Ma could do this work very well. Or else get some old widow of that village, one who has no children of her own, to take up this work as her vrata. But the boys and the girls must have separate places. Sevier Saheb is willing to send you money for this work. His address is Nedon’s Hotel, Lahore. If you write to him, write on the cover ‘To wait arrival’. I am going to Rawalpindi soon, tomorrow or the day after; then by way of Jammu, seeing Lahore and other places, and by way of Karachi and so on, I shall come to Rajputana.
My health is very good.
Vivekananda.
PS. Muslim boys must be taken too, of course, and you must not spoil their dharma. Only keep their food and drink separate, and teach them so that they grow moral, full of manhood and devoted to the good of others. This alone is called dharma. Put the knotty tattvas of philosophy up on the shelf for now.
V.
What our country needs now is Manhood and dayā. ‘He, the Lord, is prema in its very nature, beyond all words’, but ‘He is revealed in some vessel’; here, instead, it should be said, ‘He is pratyakṣa to all, in the form of prema’: He shines forth in all beings in the form of prema. What is this pūjā of an imaginary God, my good man! Let the Vedas, the Koran, the Purāṇas and all the scrolls and leaves rest in peace for a while; let there be pūjā of the pratyakṣa God, of dayā and prema, in the land. The buddhi that sees difference is bondage; the buddhi that sees no difference is mukti. Do not be afraid of what jīvas drunk with saṁsāra say. Abhīḥ, Abhīḥ! People? Insects! Take boys of every community, Hindu, Muslim, Christian and the rest; but go slowly at first, that is, let their food and drink and so on be kept a little separate; and teach them the universal, common spirit of dharma.
Vivekananda.