The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/CLXVI Nivedita
CLXVI
THE MATH, BELUR, HOWRAH,
19th Dec., 1900.
DEAR NIVEDITA,
Just a voice across the continents to say, how do you do? Are you not
surprised? Verily I am a bird of passage. Gay and busy Paris, grim old
Constantinople, sparkling little Athens, and pyramidal Cairo are left
behind, and here I am writing in my room on the Ganga, in the Math. It is so
quiet and still! The broad river is dancing in the bright sunshine, only now
and then an occasional cargo boat breaking the silence with the splashing of
the oars. It is the cold season here, but the middle of the day is warm and
bright every day. But it is the winter of Southern California. Everything is
green and gold, and the grass is like velvet; yet the air is cold and crisp
and delightful.
Yours etc.,
VIVEKANANDA.