八 阿拉辛迦
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纽约，
1894年4月9日。
阿拉辛嘉亲爱的：
几天前收到了你上封来信。你看，我在这里实在繁忙，每日须写大量书信，故不能指望我频繁回复。但我尽力使你时刻了解这里的动态。我会去信芝加哥，请他们将一本关于宗教议会的书寄给你。不过此时你应已收到我两篇简短演讲的文稿。
秘书长先生来信说我必须返回印度，因为那才是我的工作之地。这自然毋庸置疑。但吾兄，我们要点燃一支火炬，使其光辉照耀全印度。所以，我们不可操之过急；一切将在主的恩典之下随缘而至。我已在美国许多大城市演讲，所得足以在支付这里高昂开销之后，筹备回国的旅费。我在此结交了不少朋友，其中一些颇具影响力。当然，保守的神职人员反对我；他们见无法轻易与我正面交锋，便千方百计地阻挠、辱骂、诋毁我；马祖姆达尔还来助其一臂之力。他必是嫉妒成性，近乎癫狂。他对那些人说我是十足的骗子和无赖！又转而在加尔各答散布谣言，称我在美国过着极为罪孽的生活，尤其是行为不端！主保佑他！吾兄，任何善业皆难免阻碍。唯有坚持到底之人，方能获得成功。……我相信，当有朝一日人无种姓之分，吠陀（Vedas）归于一统，天下和平和谐之时，真正的萨蒂亚·尤伽（黄金时代）便将到来。这萨蒂亚·尤伽的理念，正是能使印度重焕生机之所在。请相信这一点。若你们能做到一件事，那便去做吧。你们能否在马德拉斯召集一次盛大集会，请拉姆纳德或其他此类重要人士担任主席，通过一项决议，表达你们对我在此地代表印度教所作贡献的完全满意，并将决议寄往《芝加哥先驱报》、《跨洋报》、《纽约太阳报》，以及底特律（密歇根州）的《商业广告报》。芝加哥在伊利诺伊州。《纽约太阳报》无需附上详细地址。底特律位于密歇根州。另寄一份给芝加哥宗教议会主席巴罗斯博士。我忘记了他的门牌号，但街道是印第安纳大道。另一份寄给底特律华盛顿大道的巴格利夫人。
尽力将这次集会办得尽可能隆重。召集所有为宗教与国家而必须参与的重要人士。设法取得迈索尔大君及其宰相就集会及其宗旨表示认可的函件——以及凯特里方面的函件——总之，越声势浩大越好。
决议内容大致如下：马德拉斯印度教社区代表派遣我前往，对我在此所做工作表示完全满意，等等。
现在试试看是否可行。此事并非难事。另外，尽量从各地征集声援信函，印刷后寄给美国各报——越快越好。这将大有裨益，吾兄弟们。那些B——S——的人在此大放厥词。我们必须尽快堵住他们的嘴。
奋起吧，少年们，投身于这项事业！若你们能做到，我相信我们未来定能成就一番大业。古老的印度教万岁！打倒一切说谎者与骗子！奋起，奋起，我的少年们，我们必将胜利！
至于出版我的书信，其中适合公开的部分，可在我归国之前供我们的朋友传阅。一旦我们开始行动，必将掀起一股巨大的浪潮，但我不愿空谈而不实干。不知G. C. 高什与加尔各答的米特拉先生，能否召集所有我已故导师（Guru）的拥护者，在加尔各答做同样的事。若他们能做到，则善莫大焉。请询问他们能否在加尔各答通过同样的决议。加尔各答有数以千计的人对我们的事业抱有同情。然而，我对你的信心更甚于对他们的信心。
无更多可写之事。
向我们所有的朋友转达我的问候——我时常为他们祈祷。
你的，附以祝福，
辨喜（Vivekananda）。
English
VIII
New York,
9th April, 1894.
Dear Alasinga,
I got your last letter a few days ago. You see I am so very busy here, and have to write so many letters every day, that you cannot expect frequent communications from me. But I try my best to keep you in touch with whatever is going on here. I will write to Chicago for one of the books on the Parliament of Religions to be sent over to you. But by this time you have got two of my short speeches.
Secretary Saheb writes me that I must come back to India, because that is my field. No doubt of that. But my brother, we are to light a torch which will shed a lustre over all India. So let us not be in a hurry; everything will come by the grace of the Lord. I have lectured in many of the big towns of America, and have got enough to pay my passage back after paying the awful expenses here. I have made a good many friends here, some of them very influential. Of course, the orthodox clergymen are against me; and seeing that it is not easy to grapple with me, they try to hinder, abuse, and vilify me in every way; and Mazoomdar has come to their help. He must have gone mad with jealousy. He has told them that I was a big fraud, and a rogue! And again in Calcutta he is telling them that I am leading a most sinful life in America, specially unchaste! Lord bless him! My brother, no good thing can be done without obstruction. It is only those who persevere to the end that succeed. . . . I believe that the Satya Yuga (Golden Age) will come when there will be one caste, one Veda, and peace and harmony. This idea of Satya Yuga is what would revivify India. Believe it. One thing is to be done if you can do it. Can you convene a big meeting in Madras, getting Ramnad or any such big fellow as the President, and pass a resolution of your entire satisfaction at my representation of Hinduism here, and send it to the Chicago Herald, Inter-Ocean, and the New York Sun, and the Commercial Advertiser of Detroit (Michigan). Chicago is in Illinois. New York Sun requires no particulars. Detroit is in the State of Michigan. Send copies to Dr. Barrows, Chairman of the Parliament of Religions, Chicago. I have forgotten his number, but the street is Indiana Avenue. One copy to Mrs. J. J. Bagley of Detroit, Washington Ave.
Try to make this meeting as big as possible. Get hold of all the big bugs who must join it for their religion and country. Try to get a letter from the Mysore Maharaja and the Dewan approving the meeting and its purpose — so of Khetri — in fact, as big and noisy a crowd as you can.
The resolution would be of such a nature that the Hindu community of Madras, who sent me over, expressing its entire satisfaction in my work here etc.
Now try if it is possible. This is not much work. Get also letters of sympathy from all parts you can and print them and send copies to the American papers — as quickly as you can. That will go a long way, my brethren. The B—— S—— fellows here are trying to talk all sorts of nonsense. We must stop their mouths as fast as we can.
Up boys, and put yourselves to the task! If you can do that, I am sure we will be able to do much in future. Old Hinduism for ever! Down with all liars and rogues! Up, up, my boys, we are sure to win!
As to publishing my letters, such parts as ought to be published may be published for our friends till I come. When once we begin to work, we shall have a tremendous "boom", but I do not want to talk without working. I do not know, but G. C. Ghosh and Mr. Mitra of Calcutta can get up all the sympathisers of my late Gurudeva to do the same in Calcutta. If they can, so much the better. Ask them, if they can, to pass the same resolutions in Calcutta. There are thousands in Calcutta who sympathise with our movement. However I have more faith in you than in them.
Nothing more to write.
Convey my greetings to all our friends — for whom I am always praying.
Yours with blessings,
Vivekananda.
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