The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/LIX Sanyal
LIX[6]*
(Translated from Bengali)
54 W. 33rd ST., NEW YORK,
9th February, 1895.
DEAR SANYAL,
. . Paramahamsa Deva was my Guru, and whatever I may think of him in point
of greatness, why should the world think like me? And if you press the point
hard, you will spoil everything. The idea of worshipping the Guru as God is
nowhere to be met with outside Bengal, for other people are not yet ready to
take up that ideal. . . . Many would fain associate my name with themselves
— "I belong to them!" But when it comes to doing something I want, they are
nowhere. So selfish is the whole world!
I shall consider myself absolved from a debt of obligation when I succeed in purchasing some land for Mother. I don't care for anything after that.
In this dire winter I have travelled across mountains and over snows at dead
of night and collected a little fund; and I shall have peace of mind when a
plot is secured for Mother.
Henceforth address my letters as above, which is to be my permanent seat
from now. Try to send me an English translation of the Yogavâsishtha
Râmâyana. . . . Don't forget those books I asked for before, viz Sanskrit
Nârada and Shândilya Sutras.
" [059_sanyal_01.jpg] — Hope is the greatest of miseries, the highest bliss
lies in giving up hope."
Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA.