Swamiji's letters found

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> Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:38:12 +0530 (IST)

> " Professor S. Yashonath " <yashonat

>

> Dear Gomu,

>

> I found a report in today's Times of India that they have found a lot of

> letters of Swami Vivekananda at Khetri.

>

> Please read on...

>

> yashonath

>

> The Times of India

> Wednesday 24 February 1999

>

> Vivekananda's letters found

>

> By Prakash Bhandari

> The Times of India News Service

>

> JAIPUR: The district administration of Jhunjhunu has discovered

> 106-year-old rare letters written by Swami Vivekananda to the

> then ruler of Khetri. Swami Vivekananda lived in Jhunjhunu for a

> number of years at the invitation of the then ruler, Maharaja Ajit

> Singh. The maharaja had paid for Swami Vivekananda's trip to

> the USA for the world religion conference.

>

> The rare letters were found in the record room of the

> sub-divisional officer's office. The record room was being

> cleaned on the eve of the visit of collector Sudhansh Pant when

> the letters written by Swami Vivekananda were discovered by

> chance by the patwari. The village patwari (who keeps land

> records) brought the old letters to the notice of sub-divisional

> officer Ram Niwas Mehta who went through them and was

> surprised to know that they were written by Swami Vivekananda

> and Motilal Nehru.

>

> The letters, all of them in English, were handwritten by Swami

> Vivekananda. They were written between February and

> December 1893.

>

> In the letters, Swami Vivekananda appreciated the role of Khetri

> state in providing him help and patronage. The Swami has

> elaborately written about his experience in Chicago.

>

> Some more papers written by nobles and regents and sent from

> London, Lahore, Calcutta, Allahabad, Pokhran and Mount Abu

> were also discovered.

>

> Besides discovering the letters of Swami Vivekananda, letters

> written to the ruler of Khetri by Motilal Nehru, were also

> discovered. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's mother, Swaroop Rani,

> belonged to Khetri and her father was in the service of the ruler.

>

> All these papers and letters, which belonged to the erstwhile

> princely state of Khetri, were transferred alongwith other papers

> to the Rajasthan government after its formation in 1949.

>

> Swami Vivekananda's initial enlightenment came while he was

> living in Khetri. The people of Khetri started an ashram in his

> memory and a statue of Swami Vivekananda was unveiled at

> Khetri last year.

>

 

 

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