Part 73 (1/2)

To Swami Turiyananda

6 PLACE DES ETATS UNIS, PARIS,.

13th August, 1900.

DEAR BROTHER HARI, I got your letter from California. So three persons are getting spiritual trances; well, it is not bad. Even out of that much good will come. Shri Ramakrishna knows! Let things happen as they will. His work He knows, you and I are but servants and nothing else.

I am sending this letter to San Francisco - care of Mrs. C. Panel. Just now I got some news from New York. They are well. Kali is on tour. Write in detail about your health and work in San Francisco. And don't be indifferent to the question of sending money to the Math. See that money goes certainly every month, from Los Angeles and San Francisco.

I am on the whole doing well. I am shortly starting for England. I get news of Sharat. Recently he had an attack of dysentery. The rest are all well. This time few got malaria; nor is it so prevalent on the banks of the Ganga. This year, owing to the scarcity of rain, there is fear of famine in Bengal also.

By the grace of Mother, go on doing work, brother. Mother knows, and you know - but I am off! Now I am going to take a rest.

Yours affectionately,

CXC.

To Mr. John Fox

BOULEVARD HANS SWAN, PARIS,.

14th August, 1900.

JOHN FOX, ESQ.,.

6 Dr. Wolf Street,

Dorchester, Ma.s.s, U.S., America.

Kindly write Mohin (Mahendranath Datta, younger brother of Swamiji.) that he has my blessings in whatever he does. And what he is doing now is surely much better than lawyering, etc. I like boldness and adventure and my race stands in need of that spirit very much. Only as my health is failing and I do not expect to live long, Mohin must see his way to take care of mother and family. I may pa.s.s away any moment. I am quite proud of him now.

Yours affectionately,

CXCI.

(Translated from Bengali)