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শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ 8૨ઉ! and united into one single flame.—The Life of V*vekananda. Pp. 10-11. শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের ঐ ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী এবং পরে তাহার এই সার্থকতা কি নিঃসংশয়ে প্রমাণ করে না যে, বিবেকানন্দের জীবনে গুরুর অভিপ্রায়ই পূর্ণ হইয়াছিল ? অতঃপর ভগিনী নিবেদিতার মুখে যখন শুনি— That sudden revelation of the misery and struggle of humanity as a whole, which has been the first ... result of the limelight irradiation of facts by the organisation of knowldge, had been made to him also, as to the European mind. We know the verdict that Europe has passed on it all. Our art, our science, our poetry, for the last sixty years or more, are filled with the voices of our despair. A world summed up into the growing satisfaction and vulgarity of privilege, and the growing sadness and pain of the dispossessed ; and a will of man too noble and high to condone the evil, yet too feeble to avert or arrest it, this is the spectacle of which our greatest minds are aware. Reluctant, wringing her hands, it is true, yet seeing no other way, the culture of the West can but stand and cry, “To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Wae Wictis Woe to the vanquished I" Is this also the verdict of the eastern wisdom ? If so, what hope is there for humanity ? I find in my master's life an answer to this question.-The Master as I saw Him. Pp. 125-26.