Take even an extreme case, that of an extremely ignorant Vairagi. Even he, when he goes into a village tries his best to impart to the villagers whatever he knows, from Tulasidasa, or Chaitanya-charitamrita or the Alwars in Southern India.
Is that not doing some good? And all this for only a bit of bread and a rag of cloth.
Before unmercifully criticising them, think how much you do, my brother, for your poor fellow-countrymen, at whose expense you have got your education, and by grinding whose face you maintain your position and pay your teachers for teaching you that the Babajis are only vagabonds.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Reply to the Madras Address’
Is that not doing some good? And all this for only a bit of bread and a rag of cloth.
Before unmercifully criticising them, think how much you do, my brother, for your poor fellow-countrymen, at whose expense you have got your education, and by grinding whose face you maintain your position and pay your teachers for teaching you that the Babajis are only vagabonds.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Reply to the Madras Address’
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