Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

can I speak of but his words.’He would speak in such a touching manner and and so full ofaffection that it appeared to the visitors that they werelistening these words sitting close to Thakur himself. Abridge as if was built between the spot where he used to sitand talk of Thakur and the spots of Thakur’s leela. Hisnarratives became real. Paul Brunton met Mahendra Nath andhe narrated this meeting in his book ‘Search in Secret India’.While describing his first meeting with M., he writes, ‘Avenerable patriarch has stepped out from the pages of Bibleand a figure from Mosaic times has turned to flesh.’Swami Yogananda in his book ‘Autobiography of a Yogi,’recorded how he was inspired by Mahendra Nath in his earlieryears while entering his future spiritual life.Mahendra Nath was a sannyasi in household. His life is abright illustration of renunciation. ‘Sri Sri RamakrishnaKathamrita’ by M. is not only an excellent piece of literature,it isbut also the immortal words of divine life.Many a young man embraced sannyasa by coming in contactwith Mahendra Nath and found new inspiration in theirreligious life. They who saw him even once can never forgethis yogi like figure, his humbleness and his simplicity.When the translation of some chapters of Kathamrita appearedas Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Volume II and was alsopublished in the Morn Star without M.’s permission andconsultation, how hurt M. felt within is evident from his letter:Dear Ayukta Babaji. My love and salutations to you all. Thetranslation of the Gospel in the Morn Star is, I regret to say,