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Please recommend them to some Satra (house of alms) during their stay in the city, if you find it convenient. You will hear from them all my news.
With my best regards and greetings.
Yours etc.,
Vivekananda
PS. Gangadhar is now proceeding to Kailas. The Tibetans wanted to slash him up on the way, taking him to be a spy of the foreigners. Eventually some Lamas kindly set him free. We obtain this news from a Tibet-going trader. Gangadhar's blood won't cool down before seeing Lhasa. The gain is that his physical endurance has grown immensely-one night he passed uncovered on a bed of snow, and that without much hardship.
Vivekananda
XII
Baranagore, Calcutta,
13th Dec., 1889
{original in Bengali}
Dear Sir {Pramadadas Mitra},
I have all particulars from your letter; and from Rakhal's which followed, I came to know of your meeting. I have received the pamphlet written by you. A kind of scientific Advaitism has been spreading in Europe ever since the theory of the conservation of energy was discovered, but all that is Parinamavada, evolution by real modification. It is good you have shown the difference between this and Shankara's Vivartavada (progressive manifestation by unreal superimposition). I can't appreciate your citing Spencer's parody on the German transcendentalists; he himself is fed much on their doles. It is doubtful whether your opponent Gough understands his Hegel sufficiently. Anyway, your rejoinder is very pointed and thrashing.
Yours etc.,
Vivekananda