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Bhuban Bhavan,
P.O. Balaram Dharma Sopan.
Khardah, North 24-Parganas (W.B)
Pin Code 743121
16 January 1996
My dear Bijay,
Hope everything is fine there and you are all doing well. I did not get time and will get little time to go through the whole book 'चरित्र -निर्माण' That you have nicely completed.
Now there is difficulty is the font of type , with my eye-sight it is difficult to read the letters so pressed closely. However , I was just turning over the last few pages. Patanjali is included in Mental Concentartion. Did I disscussed in detail so much in connection with Character Building ? Of course there is relation between Mental Concentration and Character Building.
However, I would point out some little mistakes . Page 39, line 5 -
" सम्पूर्ण विश्व के साथ एकत्वबोध" होना , यह पातंजलि योग की बात नहीं है; वह कहा गया था वेदान्त से , स्वामीजी के भाव से। "
Page 40, line 4 : " इस विज्ञान को पतंजलि योग सूत्र कहते हैं" -ऐसा लिखना ठीक नहीं है। होना चाहिये था--- " इस विज्ञान को योग या राजयोग कहते हैं। इसका मूल शास्त्र है पतंजलि योगसूत्र नामक ग्रन्थ। इस योग को अष्टांग -योग कहते हैं , क्योंकि इसकी पद्धति में आठ अंग होते हैं। "
Did you take a copy of the new booklet in Bengali from the camp this time - " अलमोड़ार आकर्षण " ? If you have, read it . You may see if it can be translated in Hindi ?
With love and blessings
Yours affectionately
नवनीदा
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Bhuban Bhavan,
P.O. Balaram Dharma Sopan.
Khardah, North 24-Parganas (W.B)
Pin Code 743121
18 March 1996
Reference No : VYM/
My dear Bijay,
Your letter has just come. XYZ wrote at least a dozen letters, I replied to each one, but some on the way perhaps got lost. I do not think I got any from Jitendra.
Are XXX relatives really depriving them of their property and troubling him in various way? That is what he wrote .Whatever XXX has been saying or doing , he says or does so, under the spell of his mental stress. His lack of common sense or outbursts of anger is due to his mental stress. It is not so much necessary that he takes a lot of interest in the study circle or the library. If he does so willingly for his own good it is all right.
You or any particular person cannot be held responsible for XYZtroubles . It is very wrong to suggest so. Nobody can lose his head under under influence of somebody else .
There who suggest so, do not know anything about psychic diseases. They should desist from doing so, if they really want XYZ's welfare . Nobody is competent of declare him mad or sane. Are they psychologists ? Try to help him by any Service-job and counseling treatment as far as you can. A Service-job for him is very much necessary. The next depends on Thakur's Kripa .
There who suggest so, do not know anything about psychic diseases. They should desist from doing so, if they really want XYZ's welfare . Nobody is competent of declare him mad or sane. Are they psychologists ? Try to help him by any Service-job and counseling treatment as far as you can. A Service-job for him is very much necessary. The next depends on Thakur's Kripa .
It is good that your daughter's marriage was nicely solemnized. So, in samsara there will always be trouble and anxiety . If you know my trouble you will be astonished. But I do not want to burden your mind with details.
You are right. The artist who painted the pictures for our exhibition in the camp (this year), was thoroughly guided about theme and details of every picture by me.
I visited all the spots at Almora (Advaita Ashram: Mayavati) and researched about the details minutely before writing the booklet. That was done only being earnestly requested by the monks there.
Atman, though bliss itself cannot enjoy the Ananda unless it gives up its non-duality and takes birth just for that. But without Maya the world cannot be conjured up and duality does not take form.
In time and space 'Ananda' gets mixed up with 'sufferings'. मनीषा or buddhi can reject suffering and take only Ananda. That is possible only by man. Suffering is not intentionally dumped on man, it comes in the process of creation.
But without creation Atman cannot enjoy bliss , This is Maya. Where there is 'KNOWING' there is no 'suffering' . Therefore, it not like Hot Ice. If you say some body has had 'Knowledge' , yet he is suffering that will be Hot Ice ie. something like a castle in the air.
With love
Nabanida.
[received on 25.3.96]
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Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, is a branch of the Ramakrishna Math, founded on 19 March 1899 at the behest of Vivekananda, by his disciples Captain James Henry Sevier, and Charlotte Sevier. Today it is publishing the original writings of Vivekananda. As an ashram dedicated to the study and practice of Advaita Vedanta, no images or idols are worshipped there, not even of Ramakrishna; and no images were kept in the premises according to the Ashram ideals set by Vivekananda.
Captain James Henry Sevier who had served the British Indian Army for five years and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Sevier, met Swami Vivekananda in England in 1895. In 1896, the Swami and the Seviers travelled for several weeks through Switzerland, Germany, and Italy.In the Alps, Swami Vivekananda expressed a desire to have a mountain retreat for monks in the Himalayas.
In December 1896 the couple went to India to follow the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and with a plan to buy a place near Almora and set up an Ashram similar to what Swami Vivekananda had described.The Seviers purchased land near Almora in 1898. Set amidst deodar, pine and oak forests; the land had been a tea farm and estate.
With the help of Swami Swarupananda, the ashram was set up, along with a small dwelling for the monks, ashramites and the Seveirs around the same time as the Belur Math was being established near Kolkata. They moved in on 19 March 1899, the birth anniversary of Sri Ramakrishna that year.
The publication of the Swami's English journal Prabuddha Bharata was suspended in May 1898 after the death of its first editor, 24-year old B. R. Rajam Iyer at Chennai. Swami Vivekananda asked Sevier and his wife to revive the magazine, and the editorship was given to Swami Swarupananda, who became the first head of the Ashram upon its opening on 19 March 1899, but also remained its editor, at its new base, until his death in 1906.
In a letter to Swami Swarupananda, editor of Prabuddha Bharata, Mayavati, Swami Vivekananda wrote the following letter and recommendation on the way the Ashram was to be conducted:
[March 1899]
MY DEAR S,
I have no objection whether Mrs. Sevier's name goes on top or mine or anybody else's; the prospectus ought to go in the name of the Seviers, mustering my name also if necessary.
I send you few lines for your consideration in the prospectus. The rest are all right.I will soon send the draft deed.The lines for the prospectus are given below:
" In Whom is the Universe, Who is in the Universe, Who is the Universe; in Whom is the Soul, Who is in the Soul, Who is the Soul of Man; knowing Him — and therefore the Universe — as our Self, alone extinguishes all fear, brings an end to misery and leads to Infinite Freedom. Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth — THE ONENESS OF ALL BEINGS.
"Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness." The Advaita is the only system which gives unto man complete possession of himself, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run attain to Absolute Freedom.
Hitherto it has not been possible to preach this Noble Truth entirely free from the settings of dualistic weakness; this alone, we are convinced, explains why it has not been more operative and useful to mankind at large. To give this ONE TRUTH a freer and fuller scope in elevating the lives of individuals and leavening the mass of mankind, we start this Advaita Ashrama on the Himalayan heights, the land of its first expiration.
Here it is hoped to keep Advaita free from all superstitions and weakening contaminations. Here will be taught and practiced nothing but the Doctrine of Unity, pure and simple; and though in entire sympathy with all other systems, this Ashrama is dedicated to Advaita and Advaita alone.
Captain Sevier died on 28 October 1900, while the Swami was out of India and the Captain was cremated in the nearby river Sarada, according to Hindu traditions as he wished. Swami Vivekananda visited the ashram from January 3-18 1901, primarily to console Mrs. Sevier. Where the Swami stayed has been turned into a library. Mrs. Sevier continued to live at the Ashram for several years.
(Courtesy:https://www.vivekananda.net/HistoricalPreservation/MayavatiAshram.html)
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