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Young Vivekananda

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Vivekananda
A NEIGHBOUR said of the boy Narendranath (Narendra, Naren), who in time became known as Swami Vivekananda: "I have never seen a more hopelessly spoiled one than he . . . he goes along smoking a cigar in the presence of the elders of the quarter, and so on in all matters."
      Ramakrishna, however, said of the young man Naren: "My Narendra is a coin with no alloy whatever; Narendra does everything with the greatest ease."
      Ramakrishna's disciple Saradananda tells how he met the other young man, and how he got to know that the young man who was so much praised by the Master, was the one that the neighbour had calumniated vehemently.
      "One day some months earlier we had met Narendranath at the house of a friend. We were sitting in a room of the outer apartment when he entered the room and began humming a song. Seeing him smoke tobacco afterwards, we did not try to get introduced to him, but we got astonished with his scholarship. We then took leave.
      "Ordinary people often regarded the bold and plain-speaking Narendra as arrogant and insolent and of improper conduct when they saw his conduct and perceived his great self-confidence - which later would re-instil hopes in the broken-hearted.
      "Narendra even told Ramakrishna, "You are affectionate to me and want to see me great in everything; this is perhaps why such visions appear to you."
      "Ramakrishna thought, "But I tested my visions before in various ways and found that the Mother always showed me what was true and never what was untrue." He placed the matter before the divine Mother and was freed from anxiety on hearing from her, "Why do you give ear to his words? He will accept in a short time all these things as true."
      "Soon Ramakrishna had Narendra by his side." [Gra 749-57, abstracted]

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      Ak: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.
      Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
      Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
      Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
      Op: Simpson, John, and Jennifer Speake. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
      Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971.
      Say: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
     
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