LETTERS ON THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA FROM SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.
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Dear M.,
C'est bon mon ami—now you are doing just the thing. Come out man. No sleeping all life; time is flying: Bravo! That is the way.
Many many thanks for your publication—only I am afraid it will not pay its way in a pamphlet form * * * Never mind pay or no pay—let it see the blaze of daylight. You will have many blessings on you and many more curses—but वैसाही सद् काल बनता साहेब.*
This is the time.
Yours in the Lord, VIVEKANANDA.
October 1897, c/o Lala Hansraj, Rawalpindi.
* That is always the way of the world!
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DEHRA DOON, 24th November, 1897.
My Dear M.,
Many many many many thanks for your second leaflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a great teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind as you are doing.
The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed, and withal so plain and easy.
I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them. I am really in a transport when I read them. Strange isn't it? Our Teacher and Lord was so original, and each one of us will have to be original or nothing. I now understand why none of us attempted His life before. It has been reserved for you, this great work. He is with you evidently.
With all love and namaskar, VIVEKANANDA.
(P.S.) Socratic dialogues are Plato all over—you are entirely hidden. Moreover, the dramatic part is infinitely beautiful. Everybody likes it—here or in the West.
V.