Monday, September 15, 2008

RAKESH RATHAUR

प्यार एक रास्ता है,मंजिल नहीं

1 comment:

ybr (alias ybrao a donkey) said...

I greatly appreciate the photos at your blog.
About Swami Vivekananda: You may reject my comment. But you cannot reject a truth when you search for truth consciously and not with blind beliefs. Now pl. see:

At an age of 22 you have read only the hagiographies published by his sectarians. You can find the truth if you read his Complete Works, particularly his Epistles. Some quotes:
In May 1896 Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Alberta Sturges (her age 19) that he liked Amerique - the yankee land. He called India a jelly fish.



" ... I have had two classes already — they will go on for four or five months and after that to India I go. But it is to Amerique — there where the heart is. I love the Yankee land. I like to see new things. I do not care a fig to loaf about old ruins and mope a life out about old histories and keep sighing about the ancients. I have too much vigour in my blood for that. In America is the place, the people, the opportunity for everything. I have become horribly radical. I am just going to India to see what I can do in that awful mass of conservative jelly-fish, ... "

*Ms. Indra Nooyi, C.E.O. of Pepsico is reported to have said:

“Where I am has a lot to do with the United States. I think the United States represents the greatest meritocracy in the world,”


Her love of Yankee land is similar to Swamiji's love of the yankee land. But Swamiji reversed his love in seven years.

Swamiji wrote to Ms. Ole Bull on the 17th Jan. 1900 during his second visit to USA:


"...No, not even that; whenever it comes to paying, the people are nowhere. The field of lecturing in this country has been overworked; the people have outgrown that...."



"...They come in crowds when there is a free lecture and very few when there is something to pay...



"...No money. Hard work. No result. Worse than Los Angeles.

They come in crowds when the lecture is free — when there is payment, they don't. That's all..."

On March 27, 1895 Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Isabelle Mckindley from New York.


"...This is a wonderful country for cheating, and 99.9 per cent have some motive in the background to take advantage of others. If any one just but closes his eyes for a moment, he is gone!! ..."

Swami Vivekananda in his letter dated 12th Dec. 1901 (six months before his death), wrote to Ms. Christina Greenstidel ( Christine ), from Belur Math.


This is our best season for eating turtles, but they are all black. The green [ones] can only be found in America. Alas! I am prevented from the taste of meat. ... ".

"How I wish you were here to taste our shads — one of the most delicate fish in the world. It is raining outside — pouring. But the moment this downpour ceases, I rain through every pore — it is so hot yet. My whole body is covered by big patches of prickly heat. Thank goodness there are no ladies about! If I had to cover myself in this state of things, I surely would go crazy.

I have also my theme, but I am not despondent. I am sure very soon to pan it out into a beautiful ecstasy [excision]. I am half crazy by nature; then my overtaxed nerves make me outrageous now and then. As a result I don't find anybody who would patiently bear with me! I am trying my best to make myself gentle as a lamb. I hope I shall succeed in some birth. You are so gentle. Sometimes I did frighten you very much, did I not, Christina? I wish I were as gentle as you are. Mother knows which is best.
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Now, you can imagine a dhoti clad sadhu searching for black turtles on the banks of river Hughli.
200 soul searching blogs based on the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda