“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.” Be of good cheer and believe that we are selected by the Lord to do great things, and we will do them. Hold yourself in readiness, i.e. be pure and holy, and love for love’s sake. Love the poor, the miserable, the downtrodden, and the Lord will bless you…Be fearless, the Lord is with you, and He will yet raise the starving and ignorant millions of India…Think not that you are poor; money is not power, but goodness, holiness. Come and see how it is so all over the world.”
(p. 23-4, V. 5, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Swamiji’s letter to Alasinga dt 2nd November 1893)