Once Swami Vivekananda was giving a class on the Rig Veda and was in the process of explaining how creation evolved from sound, when Girish arrived. Turning to him, the swami said: “Well, G.C., you do not care to study all this. You pass your days with your adoration of this and that god, eh?”
Girish replied: “What shall I study, brother? I have neither time nor understanding enough to pry into all that. But this time, with Sri Ramakrishna’s grace, I shall cross the ocean of maya, bidding farewell to your Vedas and Vedanta. The Master takes you through all these studies because he wants to teach many things through you. I don’t need them.” After saying this, Girish touched the volume of the Rig Veda with his head and exclaimed, “Victory to Ramakrishna in the form of the Veda!”
Then Girish said to Swami Vivekananda: “Brother, you have read enough of the Vedas and Vedanta. Did you find anywhere in them a way for us out of these profound miseries in this country — all these wailings of grief, all this starvation, all these crimes of adultery and other horrible sins?”
Girish continued narrating graphically the painful picture of Indian society while Swami Vivekananda remained silent. Tears began to flow from his eyes. He rose and left the room.
Then Girish said to the disciple: “Did you see? What a great, loving heart! I respect your Swamiji, not as a Vedic scholar, but for that great heart of his which made him retire weeping just now at the thought of the sorrows of his fellow beings.” (Source: They Lived with God)