Our Dearest Ma,
You know what is in my mind. Still you like to hear me prattle. It amuses you seeing me fooling around with words. You like it when after fiddling around for some time I manage to pick up a train of argument (which I think to be) making some sense. Well, of course you have known it all along even before I started mumbling. But since you want it this way, since you seem to want to know what I think about it,
Here am I presenting to you,
A report of
The great events that happened around
The 75th Anniversary of Sri Ramakrishna’s Advent
This report is late by one hundred years. It seems everybody had missed it. There had been piecemeal reports of stray events. But this is the first report of the great occasion as a whole.
I am primarily reporting to you. But I think you would like me to show it to all of yours down here with me. So I will be passing it along.
Let me outline it first.
They thought it was in 1908, this 75th Anniversary. They had joy celebrating it but compared to the bliss that followed in 1911, this was but, meager.
Then you blessed and vivified the Movement by your movement. You went to Kothar; you travelled to Madras, and from there, Rameswaram and Madurai. You then went to Bangalore, had a bath in Godavari, did Jagannath Darshan and came back to Calcutta. In between you blessed Kerala from a little afar.
You crowned this 75th Shukla Dwitiya by being Akshaya Trithiya in Belur Math in May 1911.
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