BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 25at home!? He laughed aloud at this and strokingmy breast said, ?All right, let it rest now. Everythingwill come in time!? The wonder of it was that nosooner had he said this than that strange experienceof mine vanished. I was myself again and foundeverything within and without the room as it hadbeen before.’This incident wounded the vanity ofNarendra Nath very much. He could not accountfor the fact that one, by mere touch, couldrevolutionize his mind. Was it mesmerism orhypnotism? It could be possible only with respectto weak minds. But Narendra Nath had so longprided himself on being just the reverse! This mancould not be a lunatic as he thought him to be.Everything seemed like an enigma to him. Therationalistic mind of Narendra Nath received anunpleasant rebuff at this failure in judging the truestate of things. In any case Narendra Nath was onguard to resist similar experiences. But at the sametime he was fascinated by the remarkablepersonality of Sri Ramakrishna. He looked as pureand simple as a child! Narendra Nath wasextremely drawn to him. So in about a week’s timehe came to Dakshineswar again.But in the third visit Narendra Nath did nobetter, though he was on the defensive against anyinfluence on the part of Sri Ramakrishna. This time