The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Epistles - Third Series/XXXV Adhyapakji
XXXV
63 ST. GEORGE'S ROAD,
LONDON, S.W.
16th May, 1896.
DEAR ADHYAPAKJI, (Prof. John Henry Wright. The letter was written on the
death of his daughter, aged 16.)
Last mail brought the very very sad news of the blow that has fallen on you.
This is the world my brother — this illusion of Mâyâ — the Lord alone is
true. The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the
Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. All that we ever had are round us this
minute, for the spirit can neither come nor go, it only changes its plane of
manifestation.
You are strong and pure and so is Mrs. Wright, and I am sure that the Divine
in you has arisen and thrown away the lie and delusion that there can be
death for anyone.
"He who sees in this world of manifoldness that one support of everything,
in the midst of a world of unconsciousness that one eternal consciousness,
in this evanescent world that one eternal and unchangeable, unto him belongs
eternal peace."
May the peace of the Lord descend upon you and yours in abundance is the
prayer of
Your ever loving friend,
VIVEKANANDA.