The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XXXVI Govinda Sahay
XXXVI
MOUNT ABU,
30th April, 1891.
DEAR GOVINDA SAHAY,
Have you done the Upanayana of that Brahmin boy? Are you studying Sanskrit?
How far have you advanced? I think you must have finished the first part.
... Are you diligent in your Shiva Pujâ ? If not, try to be so. "Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow
God and you shall have whatever you desire. ... To the two Commander Sahebs
my best regards; they being men of high position were very kind to a poor
fakir like me. My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but
in practice. To be good and to do good — that is the whole of religion. "Not
he that crieth 'Lord', 'Lord', but he that doeth the will of the Father".
You are a nice band of young men, you Alwaris, and I hope in no distant
future many of you will be ornaments of the society and blessings to the
country you are born in.
Yours with blessings,
V.
PS. Don't be ruffled if now and then you get a brush from the world; it will be over in no time, and everything will be all right.