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00000020.htm INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE 7 the message of his Master, Sri Ramakrishna, which proclaimed the truth and fundamental unity of al! religions. The classes grew so rapidly that they soon overflowed the small upstairs room. and the large double parlors below were engaged. In them the Swami taught until the end of the season. The teaching was entirely free, the necessary expenses being met by voluntary contributions. These proving insufficient to pay the rent and provide for the maintenance of the Swami, the classes came near ending for want of pecuniary support. At once the Swami announced a course of public lectures on secular subjects for which he could receive remunera- tion, and so earned the money to support the religious classes. He explained that the Hindus regarded it as the duty of a religious teacher not only to freely give his teaching, but also if he possibly could, to bear the expenses of his work. In former times in India, it was even customary for the teacher to provide a home and food for his students. By this time some of the students had become so deeply interested in the Swami's teachings that they were desirous to have them continued through the summer. He, however, was tired after a hard season's work and at first demurred against prolonging his file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Chitra%20Selvaraj/D.../Websites/Vivekananda/PDFBooks/InspiredTalks/00000020.htm2/28/2007 11:26:20 AM
00000021.htm 8 VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY labors through the hot weather. Then, too, many of the students would be out of town at this time of year. The problem solved itself. One of our number owned a small cottage at Thousand Island Park, the largest island in the St. Lawrence River; and she offered the use of it to the Swami and as many of us as it would accommodate. This plan appealed to the Swami and he agreed to join us there after a brief visit to the Maine Camp of one of his friends. Miss D., the student to whom the cottage belonged, feeling that a special sanctuary should be prepared for the occasion, built as a true love offering to her Teacher, a new wing that was nearly as large as the original cottage. The place was ideally situated on high ground, overlooking a wide sweep of the beauti- ful river with many of its far famed Thousand islands. Clayton could be dimly discerned in the distance, while the nearer and wider Canadian shores bounded the view to the north. The cottage stood on the side of a hill, which on the north and west sloped abruptly down towards the shores of the river and of a little inlet that like a small lake lay behind the house. The house itself was literally ' built upon a rock', and huge boulders lay all around it. The new wing stood on the steep slope of the rocks like a great lantern file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Chitra%20Selvaraj/D.../Websites/Vivekananda/PDFBooks/InspiredTalks/00000021.htm2/28/2007 11:26:20 AM
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