VML-4/7/01

[Guest guest]

There, too, you find the peculiarity of the Indian nation. In the

midst of the ignorance in which the average Hindu woman lives, in the

midst of what is called in Western countries her lack of freedom,

there could arise a woman of supreme spirituality. She was a

Sannyasini; for women also give up the world, throw away their

property, do not marry, and devote themselves to the worship of the

Lord. She came; and when she heard of this boy in the grove, she

offered to go and see him; and hers was the first help he received.