VIVEKANANDA'S WARNING TO NIVEDITA ABOUT TAGORE
Swami Vivekananda : "As long as you go on mixing with that (Tagore) family, I must go on sounding this gong. Remember that that family has poured a flood of erotic venom over Bengal."
Sister Nivedita : Then he (Swamiji) described some of their poetry.
Swami Vivekananda : "But a man who has left his own mother could not be tempted like that. And just you remember -- if you long for the flesh pots of Egypt -- my mission is not Ramakrishna's nor Vedanta's nor anything but simply to bring MANHOOD to this people."
Sister Nivedita : "I'll help you, Swami", I said. Swami Vivekananda : "I know it," he said, "And so I beat the alarm."
[P.S. For the doubting Thomases who suspect my motives in open 'maligning', so to say, of 'the holy and the sacrosanct' of debilitated Bengal. Statement of truth, if perceived thus, would spell the death of Bengal. Lest it does so, better ring the death knell to avert such an untimely demise, for the people of Bengal, shorn of such effeminate influences as have paralysed their onward spiritual course, have yet in them reserves of energy to rise to heights of sublimity devoid of sensual weakness. Here Vivekananda will marshall their onward course unto light and freedom. Right now, though, the fruits are rotten, the fields drained of necessary nutrients and the harvest only of weeds and weaklings wearing the mask of men. A fresh tilling, a fertilising the land, a spiritual shower shall yet awaken within the womb of the motherland here heroes and heroines who shall on maturity look with contempt upon their deluded forefathers who had succumbed to the snares of the flesh which Swamiji had forewarned Nivedita about but which Bengal, following the lead of Tagore, had cared not to heed.
Written by Sugata Bose]
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