The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Epistles - First Series/LXIII Alasinga
LXIII
Switzerland,
6th August, 1896.
Dear Alasinga,
I learnt from your letter the bad financial state the Brahmavâdin is in. I
will try to help you when I go back to London. You must not lower the tone.
Keep up the paper. Very soon I will be able to help you in such a manner as
to make you free of this nonsense teacher business. Do not be afraid. Great
things are going to be done, my child. Take heart. The Brahmavadin is a
jewel — it must not perish. Of course, such a paper has to be kept up by
private help always, and we will do it. Hold on a few months more.
Max Müller's article on Shri Ramakrishna has been published in the
Nineteenth Century. I will send you a copy as soon as I get it. He writes me
very nice letters and wants material for a big work on Ramakrishna's life.
Write to Calcutta to send all the material they can to Max Müller.
I have received the communication to the American paper before. You must not
publish it in India. Enough of this newspaper blazoning, I am tired of it
anyhow. Let us go our own way, and let fools talk. Nothing can resist truth.
I am, as you see, now in Switzerland and am always on the move. I cannot and
must not do anything in the way of writing, nor much reading either. There
is a big London work waiting for me from next month. In winter I am going
back to India and will try to set things on their feet there.
My love to all. Work on, brave hearts, fail not — no saying nay; work on —
the Lord is behind the work. Mahâshakti is with you.
Yours with love and blessings,
Vivekananda.
PS. Do not be afraid, money and everything will come soon.
- V.