The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XXXVIII Doctor
XXXVIII
KHETRI,
27th April, 1893.
DEAR DOCTOR, (Dr. Nanjunda Rao, M.D.)
Your letter has just reached me. I am very much gratified by your love for
my unworthy self. So, so sorry to learn that poor Bâlâji has lost his son.
"The Lord gave and the Lord bath taken away; blessed be the name of the
Lord." We only know that nothing is lost or can be lost. For us is only
submission, calm and perfect. The soldier has no right to complain, nay
murmur, if the general orders him into the cannon's mouth. May He comfort
Balaji in his grief, and may it draw him closer and closer to the breast of
the All-merciful Mother!
As to my taking ship from Madras, I do not think it feasible, as I have
already made arrangements from Bombay. Tell Bhattacharya that the Raja (The
Maharaja of Khetri, Rajputana.) or my Gurubhâis would be the last men to put
any obstacles in my way. As for the Rajaji, his love for me is simply
without limit.
May the Giver of all good bless you all here and hereafter, will be the
constant prayer of
SACHCHIDANANDA.
(Swamiji uses to call himself such in those days.)