Chapter (অধ্যায়): SAYINGS AND UTTERANCES PAGE-414Page: 414 of 548
Love was not love, it was insisted, unless it was "without a reason" or without a "motive" . . . . (CWSN 1: 52)
64. About Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita wrote:
When asked by some of his own people what he considered, after seeing them in their own country, to be the greatest achievement of the English, he answered "that they had known how to combine obedience with self‑respect". (CWSN 1: 54)
65. Swami Sadananda reported that early in the morning, while it was still dark, Swami Vivekananda would rise and call the others, singing:
"Awake! Awake! all ye who would drink of the divine nectar!" (CWSN 1: 56)
66. Sister Nivedita remembered:
At this time [during the Swami's itinerant days, near Almora] he passed some months in a cave overhanging a mountain village. Only twice have I known him to allude to this experience. Once he said, "Nothing in my whole life ever so filled me with the sense of work to be done. It was as if I were thrown out from that life in caves to wander to and fro in the plains below". And again he said to someone, "It is not the form of his life that makes a Sadhu. For it is possible to sit in a cave and have one's whole mind filled with the question of how many pieces of bread will be brought to one for supper!" (CWSN 1: 61)
67. About his own poem "Kâli the Mother":
"Scattering plagues and sorrows", he quoted from his own verses,