View source for Mahatma Letter to Ramaswamier - LMW 2 No. 52

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| header1 = People involved |
| writtenby         = [[Morya]]
| receivedby        = [[S. Ramaswamier]]  
| sentvia           = unknown{{pad|10em}} 
| header2 = Dates
| writtendate       = unknown
| receiveddate      = 1 December 1882
| otherdate         = unknown
| header3 = Places
| sentfrom          = unknown
| receivedat        = Bombay
| vialocation       = unknown 
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'''This letter is Letter No. 52 in ''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series'''''. [[Mahatma]] [[Morya]] gives reassurance to [[S. Ramaswamier]].<ref>C. Jinarajadasa, ''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series'' (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925), 93, 100.</ref>
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You are right—it is more meritorious to do one’s duty without any forethought of reward than to be bargaining for pay for one’s deeds. You are young, my friend, and have long years before you. You have worked unselfishly and with great profit to both your country and the good cause. And we thank you. Return now home, and whatever trouble may seem to brood over you, remember I am with you.
           
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== Context and background ==

[[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|Mr. Jinarajadasa]] provided this background information:
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Mr. Ramaswamier arrived in Bombay with [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H.P.B.]] on November 25, 1882. On December 1, he received a letter from his Master, which is probably this, as it tells him to return home, which he did after the Seventh Anniversary Meeting held on December 7.<ref>C. Jinarajadasa, 100.</ref>
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== Physical description of letter ==

[[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|Mr. Jinarajadasa]] wrote of the Ramaswamier letters:
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I do not know where the original letters are now. He died in 1893, devoted as ever to his [[Morya|Master]] and the [[Theosophical Society|T.S.]].<ref>C. Jinarajadasa, 93.</ref>
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== Publication history ==

[[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|Mr. Jinarajadasa]] wrote of the Ramaswamier letters:
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In December, 1894, a son of his published the letters, with a facsimile of one of them, in an attack on the T.S. , which bore the title, "Isis ''Further'' Unveiled." I reprint the letters from this pamphlet.<ref>C. Jinarajadasa, 93.</ref>
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