This picture was taken during Swamiji’s stay at Green Acre in 1894, but was reproduced in 1899 in a Watertown, Massachusetts newspaper article on Green Acre. ❊ ❊ ❊ [Letter to the Hale’s daughters and nieces, July 31, 1894] “Sweet One! Many people offer to You many things, I am poor—but I have the body, mind, and soul. I give them over to You. Deign to accept, Lord of the Universe, and refuse them not.”—So have I given over my life and soul once for all.