To keep one's self steady in the midst of this whirl of Kama-kanchana (lust and gold) and hold on to one's own ideals, until disciples are molded to conceive of the ideas of realization and perfect renunciation, is indeed difficult work, my boy.
Thank God, already there is great success.
I cannot blame the missionaries and others for not understanding me -- they hardly ever saw a man who did not care in the least about women and money.
At first they could not believe it to be possible; how could they?
You must not think that the Western nations have the same ideas of chastity and purity as the Indians. Their equivalents are virtue and courage. . . .
People are now flocking to me. Hundreds have now become convinced that there are men who can really control their bodily desires; and reverence and respect for these principles are growing.
All things come to him who waits. May you be blessed for ever and ever!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from US (February 1896)
Thank God, already there is great success.
I cannot blame the missionaries and others for not understanding me -- they hardly ever saw a man who did not care in the least about women and money.
At first they could not believe it to be possible; how could they?
You must not think that the Western nations have the same ideas of chastity and purity as the Indians. Their equivalents are virtue and courage. . . .
People are now flocking to me. Hundreds have now become convinced that there are men who can really control their bodily desires; and reverence and respect for these principles are growing.
All things come to him who waits. May you be blessed for ever and ever!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from US (February 1896)
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