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THE SWAMI AND THE PEOPLE HE KNEW

 
Mary Tappan Wright
 
 

 

Mary Tappan Wright

Mary Tappan Wright was the wife of Harvard Professor of Greek, John Henry Wright, who was a good friend of Vivekananda. As a faculty spouse, she attended the Swami 's talk at Radcliffe and recorded the following in her journal:

On Tuesday, [May 8] Vivekananda spoke before the Annex upon his religion. It was most poetic, full of reverence and that deep feeling that for the moment makes converts. The trivial faces of some of the women hardened into a fixed attention and they seemed to be straining every nerve in order to follow the speaker; but when he began to tell us our faults and show up our follies and crimes he came down to a lower level and they laughed with the vexed laugh born of a sting.

'The widows of high caste in India do not marry, he said; only the widows of low caste may marry, may eat, drink, dance, have as many husbands as they choose, divorce them all, in short enjoy all the benefits of the highest society in this country.' Then we laughed.

- May 8 1894, Radcliffe College

 

Conversations and Dialogues by Mrs. Wright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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