The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Epistles - First Series/XLVII Maharaja of Khetri
XLVII
9th July, 1895.
. . . About my coming to India, the matter stands thus I am, as your
Highness[1] well knows, a man of dogged perseverance.
I have planted a seed in this country; it is already a plant, and I expect
it to be a tree very soon. I have got a few hundred followers. I shall make
several Sannyâsins, and then I go to India leaving the work to them. The
more the Christian priests oppose me, the more I am determined to leave a
permanent mark on their country. . . . I have already some friends in
London. I am going there by the end of August. . . . This winter anyway has
to be spent partly in London and partly in New York, and then I shall be
free to go to India. There will be enough men to carry on the work here
after this winter if the Lord is kind. Each work has to pass through these
stages — ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Each man who thinks
ahead of his time is sure to be misunderstood. So opposition and persecution
are welcome, only I have to be steady and pure and must have immense faith
in God, and all these will vanish. . . .
Vivekananda.
- Notes
- ↑ The Maharaja of Khetri.