Mahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 2 No. 30
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| Written by: | Morya |
| Received by: | Henry Steel Olcott |
| Sent via: | unknown |
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| Written on: | unknown |
| Received on: | around October 1879 |
| Other dates: | unknown |
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| Sent from: | unknown |
| Received at: | Bombay |
| Via: | unknown |
This is Letter No. 30 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. In it Mahatma Morya advises Henry Steel Olcott about his interactions with others.[1]
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Page 1 transcription, image, and notes
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Why be selfish? If there are things to learn, things to see, things good to know for the future of man - why not give a chance equally with yourself to another? If your aversion toward Hindoos is so great that the moment has come when you can hear them no longer but crave for solitude, then with the exceptions of a few quarters of an hour a day you will be alone. I will |
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take care and Damu that M.T. does not annoy you. But 1stly do you care to be talked about – you and H.P.B. – as going alone to a desert pl[ace]? English here are worse than anywhere else. 2ly M.T. is my countryman and I wish him to get his chance equally with
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yourself. As soon as H.B. receives telegram - go.
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Context and background
Mr. Jinarājadāsa made no specific comments about this minor letter.
Physical description of letter
The original of this letter is preserved at the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India.
Publication history
Commentary about this letter
Mr. Jinarājadāsa provided this foreword on the series of letters numbered 28-45:
I have arranged the letters which follow, so far as possible, in the order in which they were received. On some, Colonel Olcott has made a memorandum of the date. For others, I have been able to get the date from his Diaries. There are a few, however, of which I am fairly certain as to the year, because of the first script of Master M. referred to already [see Morya:Writing style], but there is no indication anywhere as to the month. Some of the letters bear no signature.[2]