The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XVIII Sir
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(Translated from Bengali)
GHAZIPUR,
4th Feb., 1890.
DEAR SIR,
Received your kind note, and through supreme good fortune, I have obtained
an interview with Babaji. A great sage indeed! — It is all very wonderful,
and in this atheistic age, a towering representation of marvellous power
born of Bhakti and Yoga! I have sought refuge in his grace; and he has given
me hope — a thing very few may be fortunate enough to obtain. It is Babaji's
wish that I stay on for some days here, and he would do me some good. So
following this saint's bidding I shall remain here for some time. No doubt,
this will give you also much pleasure. I don't mention them in a letter, but
the facts are very strange indeed — to be disclosed when we meet. Unless one
is face to face with the life of such men, faith in the scriptures does not
grow in all its real integrity.
Yours etc.,
VIVEKANANDA.