A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""was"">MAX MULLERA VEDANHST.WAMI Vivekananda writing to the Brahmavadinabout his visit to Professor Max Muller, said aiLongother things:u What an extraordinary man is Prof. Max Muller !He was first induced to inquire about the power ^behind,which led to sudden and momentous changes in the life ofthe late Keshava Chandra Sen; and since then he hasbeen an earnest student and admirer of the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna.* Ramakrishna is worshippedby thousands to-day Professor," I said. To whom elseshall worship be accorded,if not to such ?" the answer.The Professor was kindness itself : he asked Mr. Sturdyand myself to lunch with him and showed us severalcolleges in Oxford and the Bodleian Library. He alsoaccompanied o to the Railway station and all this;he didbecause, as he said, It is not every day one meets adiscipleof Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. That was reallya revelation to me. That nice little house in its setting ofa beautiful garden, the silver-headed sage, with a facecalm and benign, and a forehead smooth as a child s ingpite of seventy winters and every line in that face speaking of a deep-seated mine of spirituality somewherebern r^i ;that noble wife, the helpmate of his life throughhis long and arduous task of exciting interest, over-ridingopposition and contempt, and at last creating a respect forthe thoughts of the sages of ancient India the trees, the* The great Guru of Swami Vivekananda, one of the greatestof the Modern Saints.