The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/IL Friend
IL
To Mr. E. T. Sturdy
19 WEST 38TH ST., NEW YORK,
2nd August, 1895.
DEAR FRIEND,
Your kind note received today. I am going to Paris first with a friend and start for Europe on the 17th of August. I will however remain in Paris only a week to see my friend married, and then I go over to London.
Your advice about an organisation was very good indeed. And I am trying to
act on that line.
I have many strong friends here, but unfortunately they are most of them poor. So the work here must be slow. Moreover it requires a few months more of work in New York to carry it to some visible shape: as such I will have to return to New York early this winter, and in summer I will return to London again. So far as I see now I can stay only a few weeks in London. But if the Lord wills, that small time may prove to be the beginning of great things. From Paris I will inform you by wire when I arrive in England.
Some Theosophists came to my classes in New York, but as soon as human
beings perceive the glory of the Vedanta, all abracadabras fall off of
themselves. This has been my uniform experience. Whenever mankind attains a
higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. Multitude counts for
nothing. A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men can do more in a year
than a mob in a century. If there is heat in one body, then those others
that come near it must catch it. This is the law. So success is ours, so
long as we keep up the heat, the spirit of truth, sincerity, and love. My
own life has been a very chequered one, but I have always found the eternal
words verified: "Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies
the way to God."
May the Sat in you be always your infallible guide! May He speedily attain
to freedom and help others to attain it!
Ever yours in the Sat,
VIVEKANANDA.