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(*Translated from Bengali* )▶

*To Swami Brahmananda*▶

MADRAS, *12th February, 1897*.▶

DEAR RAKHAL,▶

I am to start by *S.S. Mombasa* next Sunday. I had to give up invitations from Poona and other places on account of bad health. I am very much pulled down by hard work and heat.▶

The Theosophists and others wanted to intimidate me. Therefore I had to give them a bit of my mind. You know they persecuted me all the time in America, because I did not join them. They wanted to begin it here. So I had to clear my position. If that displeases any of my Calcutta friends, "God help them". You need not be afraid, I do not work alone, but He is always with me. What could I do otherwise?▶

Yours, VIVEKANANDA.▶

PS. Take the house if furnished — V.▶