The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/CXXXIII Haripada
CXXXIII
(Translated from Bengali)
To Shri Haripada Mitra
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR,
17th September, 1898.
DEAR HARIPADA,
I got all news from your letter and wire. That you may easily pass your examination in Sindhi is my prayer to the Lord.
Recently my health was very bad, and so I have been delayed, otherwise I had
intended to leave for the Punjab this week. The doctor had advised me not to
go to the plains at the present time, as it is very hot there. Perhaps I may
reach Karachi by about the last week of October. Now I am doing somewhat
well. There is nobody else with me now excepting two American friends —
ladies. Probably I shall part from them at Lahore. They will wait for me in
Calcutta or in Rajputana. I shall probably visit Cutch, Bhuj, Junagad,
Bhavnagar, Limbdi, and Baroda and then proceed to Calcutta. My present plan
is to go to America via China and Japan in November or December, but it is
all in the hands of the Lord. The above-mentioned American friends bear all
my expenses, and I shall take from them all my expenses including railway
fare up to Karachi. But if it is convenient to you, send me Rs. 50/- by wire
C/o Rishibar Mukhopadhyaya, Chief Justice, Kashmir State, Srinagar. It will
be a great help to me, for I have incurred much extra expense of late owing
to illness, and I feel a little ashamed to have to depend always on my
foreign devotees. With best wishes,
Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA.