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STORY OF SWAMI SIVANANDA.
211
If an idea, be it political or religious, it is very
necessary that its exponent's pictures, particularly of
his activities, associations and so on, are put before
the public. That is why Newspapers and Journals
to-day pubilsh pictures of our leaders, over and over
again.
If it is admitted that you are a religious Leader
with a mission and with a call for the erring world to
live the Divine Life, I believe there is nothing wrong
in your activities being pictorially published. Indeed,
there is every reason for more and more of such
publications. To these wiseacres who cavil at them
I can only say:
"I pity you."
With sincere pranams at Thy Lotus Feet,
COL. A. N. S. MURTHI
Dy. Dir. Mily. Trg. (Edn.),
Army Headquarters, New Delhi.
I am one of the innumerable men whose spiritual
life is being revolutionised by your Message and your
Personality. Until my friend, Sri Pinchas Nasich.
brought me some numbers of the DIVINE LIFE, I
knew only your name and heard somewhat of your
spiritual and moral achievements. By your deep
thoughts themselves, I am not quite surprised; but
the very fact that in this deplorable period of moral
degeneration, of extreme egoism of individuals and
groups, of suicidal hatred and brutality, man could
appear who built a-new fundamentals of true life, by
211
If an idea, be it political or religious, it is very
necessary that its exponent's pictures, particularly of
his activities, associations and so on, are put before
the public. That is why Newspapers and Journals
to-day pubilsh pictures of our leaders, over and over
again.
If it is admitted that you are a religious Leader
with a mission and with a call for the erring world to
live the Divine Life, I believe there is nothing wrong
in your activities being pictorially published. Indeed,
there is every reason for more and more of such
publications. To these wiseacres who cavil at them
I can only say:
"I pity you."
With sincere pranams at Thy Lotus Feet,
COL. A. N. S. MURTHI
Dy. Dir. Mily. Trg. (Edn.),
Army Headquarters, New Delhi.
I am one of the innumerable men whose spiritual
life is being revolutionised by your Message and your
Personality. Until my friend, Sri Pinchas Nasich.
brought me some numbers of the DIVINE LIFE, I
knew only your name and heard somewhat of your
spiritual and moral achievements. By your deep
thoughts themselves, I am not quite surprised; but
the very fact that in this deplorable period of moral
degeneration, of extreme egoism of individuals and
groups, of suicidal hatred and brutality, man could
appear who built a-new fundamentals of true life, by