“The Master said he would come again, after a hundred years. For these hundred years he would remain in the hearts of those who loved him… One must never lose faith…Whoever seeks refuge with the Master finds everything. His renunciation was his glory…His was a complete renunciation”
(p.74-76, In the Company of the Holy Mother)
“…the other is Swamiji’s first night at Camp Taylor, May 2,1900. I close my eyes and see him standing there in the soft blackness with sparks from the blazing log fire flying through it and a day-old moon above. He was weary after a long lecture season, but relaxed and happy to be there. ‘We end life in the forest,’ he said, ‘as we begin it, but with a world of experience between the two states.’ Later after a short talk, when we were about to have the usual meditation, he said, ‘You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength.’ The bliss and power and peace of the meditation that followed could never be described.”
(p.369, Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda, Ida Andsell reminiscences about Swamiji)