Ε"σότασή σαυσσστΕπ Ι - ιι.
25.01.1897இல் இராமநாதபுரத்திற்கு வருகை தந்த சுவாமி விவேகானந்தருக்கு ராஜா தினகர் வரைந்து வாசித்தளித்த வரவேற்பிதழ்
His Most Holiness,
Sri Paramahamsa, Yati-Raja, Digvijaya-Kolahala, Sarvamata-Sampratipanna, Parama-Yogeeswara, Srimat Bhagavan Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa KarakamalaSanjata, Rajadhiraja-Sevita, SREE VIVEKANANDA SWAMYMA Y ITPLEASE YOUR HOLINESS,
We, the inhabitans of this ancient and historic samsthanam ofsethu Bandha Rameshwar, otherwise known as Ramanathapuram or Ramnad, beg, most cordially, to welcome you to this, our motherland. We deem it a very rare privilege to be the first to pay your Holiness our heartfelt homage on your landing in India, and that, on the shores sanctified by the footsteps of that great Hero and our revered Lord - Sree Bhagavan Ramachandra.
We have watched with feeling of genuine pride and pleasure the unprecedented success which has crowned your laudable efforts in bringing home to the master-minds of the West theintrinsic merits and excellence of our time-honoured and noble religion. You have with an eloquence that is unsurpassed and in language plain and unmistakable, proclaimed to and convinnced the cultured audiences in Europe and America that Hinduism fulfils all the requirements of the ideal of a universal religion and adapts itself to the temperament and needs of men and women of all races and creeds. Animateed purely by a disinterested impulse,
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