131. Never worry about money.

(Translated from Bengali)

Salutation to Bhagavān Ramakrishna!

ALMORA,

24th July, 1897.

MY DEAR AKHANDĀNANDA,

I am very glad to receive your letter and go through the contents. Your wishes about the orphanage are very good and Shri Mahārāj [1] will not fail to fulfil them at an early date. Try your best to found a permanent centre. … Never worry about money. Tomorrow I shall leave Almora for the plains; and wherever there will be made some stir, I shall open a subscription list for famine—set your mind easy on that score. When in every district there will be a Math on the model of our Math in Calcutta, then will my heart’s desire be fulfilled. Let not the work of preaching, too, be at a standstill, and greater even then preaching, is the work of imparting education. By means of lectures and the like, the village people must be taught religion, history, and such other subjects—specially history. To help our educational work there is a Society in England, which, as I find from reports, is doing excellent work. In time we shall get help of this kind from everywhere, don’t be frightened. They only do work who think that help will come, directly they are on the field of work.

ⓘ[1] Shri Ramakrishna.

All strength is in you, have faith in it. It will not go unmanifested. Accept my heartiest love and blessings, and convey them to the Brahmachārin. Write now and then fiery letters to the Math, so that all may take heart and work. Victory to the Guru!

Yours affly.,
VIVEKANANDA.