Nivedita, Sister : name given to Miss Margaret Noble (1867-1911) by Swami Vivekananda. An Irishwoman, she was the closest European disciple of the Swami. She devoted herself to social service & was an ardent supporter of India's struggle for independence. In 1902, “Khāserao Jādhav & I”, Sri Aurobindo confided to a few disciples in Pondicherry, “went to receive Nivedita at the Baroda station. When she saw the Dharamshāla on the station, she said: ‘How beautiful
’ & seeing the new College buildings, she exclaimed: ‘How ugly
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes Sister Nivedita [Sister Nivedita was invited to Baroda in 1904 by the Maharaja of Baroda.] I do not remember whether she was invited but I think she was there as a State guest. Khaserao and myself went to receive her at the station. [Sri Aurobindo ...
... (1905 - 1983) was a journalist and was very skilled in writing biographies. He was awarded the honour of National Biographer by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. His best known biography is Bhagini Nivedita [Sister Nivedita]. 119. Re the sentence: "... I should have thought your Gurudev would have more or less agreed with it", Sri Aurobindo wrote commenting on the margin; "Not more or less but entirely" ...
... 246 see also Swadeshi Nazis Nazism, 2 11, 214, 2 17, 2 18, 229(fn), 236 see also Hitler Nehru, Jawaharlal , 192(fn), 207, 228-229, 238(fn), 245(fn), 253 newspapers , see under press Nivedita , Sister , 13,71 ,21 9 non-cooperation movement, 156,160,180 non-violence , 45 , ISI , 166 ·168, 170 , 218,219,225,226,229, 246 see a so Ahimsa nuclear weapons, 251 O obscurantism, 147 ...
... 281 Newsman, J. H., 490 Nietzsche, 441-42 Nirodbaran, 215, 577-78, 589, 594, 599ff, 604, 608-09, 655, 657, 693-94, 707, 743, 744 Nishikanto, 758, 730 Nivedita, Sister, 63, 221, 235, 266, 282, 287, 338-39, 346, 348, 359, 367, 368, 391 No Compromise, 190, 208 Norton, Eardley, 312, 313ff, 324, 326, 327, 343 Odyssey, 71 Okakura ...
... society. P. Mitra would become president of a council of five consisting of Aurobindo, C.R. Das, whom Aurobindo had known in England, Surendranath Tagore of the famous Tagore family, and Sister Nivedita. Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) was the foremost Western disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She was born Margaret Noble in northern Ireland. In 1895 she met the Swami, who was then on a European tour after ...
... Five 60 Sister Nivedita "I hear, Mr. Ghose, you are a worshipper of Shakti." That is how Sister Nivedita greeted Sri Aurobindo when they first met at Baroda in 1902. Nivedita has flitted in and out of our narrative; a longer look at her will enrich us. Sister Nivedita. Daughter-disciple of Swami Vivekananda. That is how she came... once criticized Nivedita, reported Nirod, as being volatile and mercurial; there was violent protest and he had to recant. "Nivedita volatile? what nonsense! She was a solid worker." Sri Aurobindo too protested forcefully. When a disciple asked "How much is India indebted to Sister Nivedita?" "Indebted?" replied Sri Aurobindo. "There can be no measure of our indebtedness to Nivedita." Sri... Carmichael 4 saw the photo, struck by its beauty, he wanted to know whose it was. Hearing that it was Nivedita's, he said, "Oh, so this is Sister Nivedita? I want just such a photo." And he took it away with him. Then Abanindranath said, "Had you but seen the photo you would have known beauty at its highest excellence." She never dolled herself up, he said, and compared her to a mountain bathed in moonlight ...
... recent official position from the writer's disrespect, though his authority is dismissed cavalierly enough. Against Sister Nivedita he does not vent his spleen unguardedly, though he cannot refrain from vindicating his superiority by patronisingly describing her as "the good Sister Nivedita". But towards Dr Coomaraswamy, possibly because he is an Indian like the writer himself, he seems to think himself... controversy. Dr Coomaraswamy is a critic of established reputation, whose contributions to the study of Indian Art are valued in every country in Europe and Asia where the subject itself is studied. Sister Nivedita's literary genius, exquisite sympathetic insight and fine artistic culture are acknowledged by all who have the faculty of judging both in England and India. Mr Havell has a recognised position ...
... a prominent member of the C.I.D. and that Sister Nivedita sent for me and informed me and we discussed what was to be done and my disappearance was the result. I never heard of any such proposed prosecution and there was no discussion of the kind; the prosecution intended and afterwards Page 100 started was for sedition only. Sister Nivedita knew nothing of these new happenings till after... a special and limited but very important field of spiritual experience and it ceased as soon as it had finished saying all that it had to say on that subject. Then about my relations with Sister Nivedita—they were purely in the field of politics. Spirituality or spiritual matters did not enter into them and I do not remember anything passing between us on these subjects when I was with her. Once... while I was there. The whole account about my staying with her for 24 hours and all that is said to have passed between us then is sheer romance and does not contain a particle of fact. I met Sister Nivedita first at Baroda when she came to give some lectures there. I went to receive her at the station and to take her to the house assigned to her; I also accompanied her to an interview she had sought ...
... different periods of India's development. Sister Nivedita The tale of Nala and Damayanti as reproduced in this mono graph was written by Sister Nivedita in her small book Cradle Tales of Hinduism. The reader may be interested in knowing more about its author, an extraordinary woman who devoted her life to Mother India. Sister Nivedita's original name was Margaret Elizabeth Noble... book Plant Response. Sister Nivedita believed that India was the land of great women and she believed that once the women of India awoke the country would rise again. In this context, it is not surprising that she wanted to tell the story of one of the most heroic and purest of Indian women, Damayanti. Page 76 Sri Aurobindo had first met Sister Nivedita in Baroda when she came... "During this calamity the compassionate figure of Sister Nivedita was seen in every slum of the Baghbazar locality. She helped others with money without giving a thought to her own condition. At one time when her own diet consisted only of milk and fruits, she gave up milk to meet the medical expenses of a patient." Page 75 In 1899 Nivedita travelled to England and then to America in an ...
... departure for Chandernagore in February 1910 Sri Aurobindo visited her at Bagbazar Math to receive her blessings, that he was seen off by Sister Nivedita and a Brahmachari of the Math and that he took this step of leaving British India at the advice of Sister Nivedita. All these statements are opposed to the facts and they were contradicted on Sri Aurobindo's behalf by Sri Charu Chandra Dutt in the same... young men and proceeded straight to his destination. His residence at Chandernagore was kept quite secret; it was known only to Srijut Motilal Roy who arranged for his stay and to a few others. Sister Nivedita was confidentially informed the day after his departure and asked to conduct the Karmayogin in place of Sri Aurobindo to which she consented. In his passage from Chandernagore to Pondicherry Sri ...
... Devi; I was given to understand that she was taken there by Sudhira Bose, Debabrata's sister. I heard of it a considerable time afterwards in Pondicherry. I was glad to know that she had found so great a spiritual refuge but I had no hand in bringing it about. (6) I did not go to Chandernagore on Sister Nivedita's advice. On a former occasion when she informed me that the Government had decided to... her in my life. It was not from Bagbazar but from another ghat (Ganga ghat) that I went straight by boat to Chandernagore. (4) Neither Ganen Maharaj nor Nivedita saw me off at the ghat. Neither of them knew anything about my going; Nivedita learned of it only afterwards when I sent a message to her asking her to conduct the Karmayogin in my absence. She consented Page 88 and from that... I told her I did not think it necessary, I would write something that would put a stop to this project. It was in these circumstances that I wrote the signed article "My Last Will and Testament". Nivedita afterwards told me that it had served its purpose; the Government had abandoned the idea of deportation. No occasion arose for her to repeat the advice, nor was it at all likely that I would have ...
... with Sister Nivedita about any case intended to be brought against him by the Government in connection with the murder of Shamsul Alam, for the good reason that no such intention was ever reported to him by anybody. Sister Nivedita never directed or advised him to go into hiding. What actually happened had nothing to do with the departure to Chandernagore. What happened was this: Sister Nivedita on a... make the Government give up its idea; this appeared in the Karmayogin under the title "My Last Will and Testament". Afterwards Sister Nivedita told him that it had had the desired effect and there was no more question of deportation. Sri Aurobindo did not see Sister Nivedita on his way to Chandernagore; this is only a relic of the now abandoned story of his visit to the Math at Baranagar on that occasion ...
... Herbert's wife. PURANI: She is collecting Sister Nivedita's letters in order to publish them. In one of them it seems to be said that you gave Nivedita the charge of editing Bande Mataram after you left Calcutta. SRI AUROBINDO: No. It was the Karmayoin . You can tell her that. There is no harm now in saying it, as it is all a long time ago I saw Nivedita before I left Calcutta for Chandernagore... the news of my contemplated arrest. She had many friends in Government circles. On getting that news I wrote the article "My Political Will" which stopped my arrest. PURANI: In one of her letters Nivedita says that Vivekananda tried to dedicate her to Shiva but found her not ready. SRI AUROBINDO: How not ready? Not ready means either unwilling or not fit to fulfil the conditions. PURANI: Perhaps ...
... and several other prominent leaders of the new nationalist movement in Bengal," said Sri Aurobindo. Along with P. Mitter, Sarala Ghosal had already started a sort of Revolutionary party of which Sister Nivedita was a member. Sarala Ghosal founded several clubs where not only boys but girls too were taught to wield lathi and sword. A worshipper of Shakti, she was the foremost organizer of physical education... quarrels were going on. So I organized them and reconciled their quarrels and went back to Baroda." He had constituted a Working Committee comprising P. Mitter, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore, Sister Nivedita, and himself. From the beginning, Sri Aurobindo used to contribute big sums for the work of the secret society; C.R. Das and P. Mitter also contributed. But he got a bit disappointed at the continued... or three regiments. Sri Aurobindo took a special journey into Central India to meet and speak with Indian sub-officers and men of one of these regiments," Sri Aurobindo stated explicitly. Sister Nivedita also had links with Rajput Thakurs. "She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach to them revolution," said Sri Aurobindo with a chuckle. "At that time everybody wanted some kind ...
... younger sister of late Debabrata Bose, an associate of Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case, who after his acquittal at the trial , turned a Sannyasin1 and joined 1. Taking the name of Swami Prajnananda. Page 122 the Ramakrishna Mission. Miss Sudhira too joined the same Mission and worked as a teacher of the Sister Nivedita School, of which, after Sister Christine... Superintendent of the Sister Nivedita School. Soon after her death Sudhira sold off the ornaments and the whole of the proceeds, some two thousand rupees was, with Sri Aurobindo's permission, made over to the Ramakrishna Mission and constituted into an endowment named Page 126 after Mrinalini, out of the interest of which a girl student is maintained at the Sister Nivedita School." Contrary... lifelong friend late Principal Girish Ch. Bose of Bangabasi College negotiated the marriage. Sri Arabindo saw my sister in Girish Babu's house personally and selected his bride. "2. Marriage ceremony was performed according to strict Hindu rites. Sri Arabindo being a Brahmo and my sister being the daughter of an England-returned Hindu, both of them had to be purified by Prayaschitya before marriage ...
... Shamsul Alam, a prominent member of the C .I.D., and that Sister Nivedita sent for me and informed me and we discussed what was to be done and my disappearance was the result. I never heard of any such proposed prosecution and there was no discussion of the kind; the prosecution intended and afterwards started was for sedition only. Sister Nivedita knew nothing of these new happenings till after I reached... Biren returned to Calcutta the next day in order not to arouse any suspicion. Thus nobody, not even his closest co-workers, knew where Sri Aurobindo had gone. "I sent someone from the office to Nivedita to inform her and to ask her to take up editing of the Karmayogin in my absence. She consented and in fact from this time onward until the suspension of the paper she had the whole conduct of it;... to any articles in the Karmayogin except twice only, the last being the occasion for the prosecution which failed. There was no arrangement for my staying in Chandernagore at a place selected by Nivedita. I went without previous notice to anybody and was received by Motilal Roy who made secret arrangements for my stay; nobody except himself and a few friends knew where I was."¹ On the first day ...
... racked with problems she cannot solve, the function of India is to restore the youth of mankind and assure it of immortality." It was Vivekananda's intense patriotic feelings which inspired Sister Nivedita. He adored Mother India. This country was not an inert piece of matter. He had seen in the poor of Page 561 this land the richness of spirit, he had seen in the despised of the... 61 Swami Vivekananda Vivekananda was born on: 12 January 1863. Nivedita was born on: 28 October 1867. Sri Aurobindo was born on: 15 August 1872. Does something strike you? Now, if we look closely at these dates we find that: a)Vivekananda is older than Nivedita by 4 years 290 days, b)Sri Aurobindo is younger than her by 4 years 291 days. ... satisfy their greed, they now wanted to turn the widow and her children out of her own house. Noren did what he could to shoulder the burden of his family, that is his widowed mother, brothers and sisters. After a great deal of searching he found a job at the office of an attorney and another one at a book publisher's. But his tireless effort did not bring in enough to feed all of them and pay the fees ...
... Congress at Benares. He it was who said, "Only mad men outside lunatic asylums could think or talk of independence." So it is quite astonishing what a revolutionary like Sister Nivedita found in him. "One thing only about Nivedita I couldn't understand," said Sri Aurobindo reflectively. "She had an admiration for Gokhale. I don't understand how a revolutionary could admire him. On one occasion she... The Benares Congress of 1905 was attended by eminent leaders from all the provinces. Rabindranath inaugurated the Page 392 Conference by singing the Bande Mataram song. Sister Nivedita was present. Sri Aurobindo also. In his book, The Liberator, Sisir Kumar Mitra reports the remembrances of a boy volunteer in charge of Sri Aurobindo's camp there. The boy was none other than ...
... only considerable obstacle left to the success of their repressive policy, and failing to procure a conviction by ordinary law,' decided to deport him. This came to the knowledge of Sister Nivedita. In mid-July, Nivedita had returned to India after a two-year self-imposed exile. She had come back with Sir Jagadish Chandra and Lady Abala Bose, under the assumed name of Miss Margot, and disguised! As... deportation: 'An Open Letter to My Countrymen' was dated 31 July 1909. He called it his 'Last Will and Testament.' He felt sure that this would kill the idea of deportation, and in fact it so turned out. Nivedita afterwards told Sri Aurobindo that it had served its purpose, and the Government had abandoned the idea of deportation. He refused to have anything to do with the sham reforms Page 522 ...
... 498 Front page of the Karmayogin (from the journal's microfilms, courtesy Nehru Memorial Museum & Library) 529 A ghat in Calcutta in the 1900s (from an old postcard) 548 Sister Nivedita (courtesy Ramakrishna Mission) 569 Sri Ramakrishna (courtesy Ramakrishna Mission) 574 Ma Sarada Devi (courtesy Ramakrishna Mission) 576 Mother before leaving Japan to return ...
... waited and waited to serve dinner or breakfast to Auro-dada. Sri Aurobindo had sent a confidential message through a young man from the office to Sister Nivedita asking her to take up the editing of the Karmayogin in his absence. That is how Nivedita came to know about his departure for Chandernagore the next day. "She consented" said Sri Aurobindo, "and in fact from this time onward until the ... only, the last being the occasion for the prosecution which failed." The Karmayogin ceased with its last issue dated 2 April 1910. On January 20, just a month before taking charge of the paper, Nivedita had written to S. K. Ratcliffe, the editor of The Statesman, who was then in England: "How I wish you could get the Karmayogin every week! In my opinion, it is a triumph 1. From cla ...
... As the subeditor of Swadesamitran Bharati went to attend the twenty-first All-India Congress Session at Benares. There he met Sister Nivedita. His two volumes of poetry, Swadesa Gitangal (1908) and Janma Bhoomi (1909), were to be dedicated to Sister Nivedita, "who without words, in a split second, taught me the nature of true service to the Mother and the greatness of sacrifice." S ...
... p of firm friendship and cooperation grew up between Sri Aurobindo and Sister Nivedita. It had started when Nivedita visited Baroda in 1902 to give some lectures. Sri Aurobindo went to the station to receive her. She had heard of him as a worshipper of Kali and Sri Aurobindo had appreciated her book Kali, the Mother. Nivedita had an interview with the Maharaja at which Sri Aurobindo was present.... cropped up between Jatin and Barin. Jatin, it appeared, had become too rigid a disciplinarian and was losing his hold on the youth. Sri Aurobindo formed a committee of five consisting of P. Mitter, Sister Nivedita, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore and Jatin to be in overall charge of the revolutionary work in Bengal. Although some differences continued, the work under P. Mitter's leadership increased enormously... course he had no intention of joining the movement; but he seemed a little surprised that Sri Aurobindo was taking such a keen interest in it. Sri Aurobindo had great admiration and respect for Nivedita and spoke about her with much warmth. 'She was a true revolutionary leader,' he told us once, 'she was open, frank and talked freely of revolutionary ideas. There was no concealment about her. It ...
... Eastern Bengal and Assam, and afterwards by the Viceroy of India, who called him ‘the most dangerous man we have to deal with at present.’ 13 In the beginning of 1910 Aurobindo was warned by Sister Nivedita, an English disciple of Swami Vivekananda, that the trap set for him could be sprung at any moment. It was time for him to leave the scene. As a farewell he penned an article in which he expressed... ideals openly. This article, his political testament, he published in the Karmayogin — the weekly he had started after being acquitted and which after his departure was kept going for a while by Sister Nivedita, who was a nationalistic activist. His inner Voice gave him his ‘marching orders’. ‘When thou hast the command, care only to fulfil it,’ 14 reads one of his aphorisms. Less than half an hour ...
... Page 24 Some Political Associates I knew very well Sister Nivedita (she was for many years a friend and a comrade in the political field) and met Sister Christine,—the two closest European disciples of Vivekananda. Both were Westerners to the core and had nothing at all of the Hindu out look; although Sister Nivedita, an Irishwoman, had the power of penetrating by an intense sympathy ...
... Bose (a brother-in-law of Sri Aurobindo) who came with us to Pondicherry and stayed here for some years. A frequent visitor was Ganen Maharaj of Ramakrishna Mission who acted as the link with Sister Nivedita. There were a few others who came once in a while. Sri Aurobindo had his own novel method of education. It did not proceed by the clock, nor according to a fixed routine or curriculum, that is... The story of this sudden exit or disappearance Aurobindo has appeared in several versions, with many distortions and not without a touch of colour. For instance, I someone has said that it was on Nivedita's advice and at her insistence or request that Sri Aurobindo took shelter in French territory. Another has given a vivid cinema-like picture of how Sri Aurobindo had to jump a. wall, how he lost his... himself has left his record on the point, and his companions of that evening have also written out the true facts. Those of us who were left behind continued to run the two papers for some time; Nivedita was of particular help in regard to the English journal. But afterwards, we too found it impossible to carryon and our pleasant home had to be broken up. For news came that the police were after our ...
... Bose (a brother-in-law of Sri Aurobindo) who came with us to Pondicherry and stayed here many long years. A frequent visitor was Ganen Tagore of Ramakrishna Mission who acted as the link with Sister Nivedita. There were a few others who came once in a while. Sri Aurobindo had his own novel method of education. It did not proceed by the clock, nor according to a fixed routine or curriculum, that... story of this sudden exit or disappearance of Sri Aurobindo has appeared in several versions, with many distortions and not without a touch of colour. For instance, someone has said that it was on Nivedita's advice and at her insistence or request that Sri Aurobindo took shelter in French territory. Another has given a vivid cinema-like picture of how Sri Aurobindo had to jump a wall, how he lost... himself has left his record on the point, and his companions of that evening have also written out the true facts. Those of us who were left behind continued to run the two papers for some time; Nivedita was of particular help in regard to the English journal. But afterwards, we too found it impossible to carry on and our pleasant home had to be broken up. For news came that the police were after ...
... of Gandhari she still sings to the Duryodhanas of this day, as of another long ago, yato dharmastato jayah. III We have seen in an earlier chapter (III.vi) how the fiery-souled Sister Nivedita met Sri Aurobindo at Baroda in 1902, having read earlier with profound admiration his articles in the Indu Prakash. She could see in him even then the same missionary spirit that had animated... bureaucracy as a major impediment to India's acceptance of the proposed Reforms, and hence his removal from the political scene seemed an obvious remedy. Coming to know of these bright ideas, Sister Nivedita advised Sri Aurobindo either to go into secrecy or to continue his political activity from outside India. But Sri Aurobindo thought that it would be sufficient if he published a signed letter... series of ten articles on the subject, the first two appearing in the inaugural issue itself. These ten essays have since been collected, rearranged, and published as a book, along with two of Sister Nivedita's contributions, under the title of The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Although written in a certain context and for a particular audience, the message is for all and comes to us - especially to the ...
... experience contradicts entirely your explanation. I knew very well Sister Nivedita (she was for many years a friend and a comrade in the political field) and met Sister Christine,—the two closest European disciples of Vivekananda. Both were Westerners to the core and had nothing at all of the Hindu outlook; although Sister Nivedita, an Irishwoman, had the power of penetrating by an intense sympathy ...
... much involved in politics and wrote prolifically. He composed and sang a poem praising Bengal and published it in the Swadeshmitran in September 1905. Bharati was a great admirer of Sister Nivedita. His meeting with her brought about many changes in his personality; he was greatly attracted by her rare vigour, love and strength. Above all he was deeply touched by her intense patriotism. Bharati ...
... — its India Office — dropped Sri Aurobindo like a hot potato. No, no, he was not 'hot'! Never. He was the Fire. During the Swadeshi days he came to be known as 'Fire-spark.' Or 'a volcano,' as Sister Nivedita saw immediately when they met. Mother said, "A volcano upside down." Page 220 ...
... suggested the giant oak. By the middle of July, 1909, Sister Nivedita returned from Europe with Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and lady Bose under the assumed name of Mrs. Margaret. We reproduce below some passages from an authentic biography of Sister Nivedita by Lizelle Reymond.168 "Aurobindo Ghose was now out of prison, and Nivedita had her school decorated as for the most auspicious festival... shrouded in a fog, and is not, therefore, adequately recognised. A more detailed and better documented biography of Sister Nivedita, dealing with all aspects - spiritual, political, artistic, and literary - of her life in India, will meet a keenly-felt want. Asked about Sister Nivedita, Sri Aurobindo said the following in one of his evening talks: "What do you mean by 'some sort'? She was... and fact of spiritual experience. Vivekananda, if he had been alive at the time, would have easily appreciated it. The intuitive insight of Rabindranath Tagore, Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya, and Sister Nivedita clearly perceived it. Page 172 Human nature is too complex and diverse, the path of its evolution too mazy and meandering, and the world-forces too tangled and conflicting to ...
... visited Bengal during these years. Sister Nivedita came to Baroda in October of this year. She had identified herself with the political ideology of Vivekananda. She had an ardent aspiration for India's freedom. She had ultimately to sever her connection with the Ramakrishna Mission on account of her political activity. The relation between Sister Nivedita and Sri Aurobindo is not well known and... relations with Sister Nivedita – they were purely in the field of politics. Spirituality or spiritual matters did not enter into them and I do not remember anything passing between us on these subjects when I was with her. Once or twice she showed the spiritual side of her but she was then speaking to someone else who had come to see her while I was there . . . I met Sister Nivedita first at Baroda... entirely successful and the idea of deportation had been dropped. The departure to Chandernagore happened later and there was no connection between the two incidents. . . ." ¹ In her interview Sister Nivedita pressed the Maharaja to join and help the revolutionary movement. The Maharaja did not commit himself. He said merely that he would send his reply through Sri Aurobindo. He gave this answer only ...
... K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita. PART FIVE: CONVERSATIONS DEAD OF THE (1910) The first two of these dialogues were published in the Karmayogin , appearing in the last issues known to have been edited by Sri Aurobindo. (Two other dialogues published in later issues of the Karmayogin under the heading "Conversations of the Dead" were written by Sister Nivedita.) Drafts of the last... note to Part Six for details). He evidently left the manuscript of A System of National Education behind, and eight chapters of the work were published in the Karmayogin by his associate Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble), whom he had asked to look after the journal in his absence. The eighth chapter was published in the journal's last issue. Other chapters, if they were written, have been lost ...
... first two installments of "Chitrangada", a poem by Sri Aurobindo, were also published in the same paper on the 26th march and 2nd April 1910, respectively. Karmayogin was now being edited by Sister Nivedita. In the issue of 26th March 1910, Karmayogin published the following: "We are greatly astonished to learn from the local Press that Sj. Aurobindo Ghose has disappeared from Calcutta ...
... and Manoranjan Guhathakurtha were disciples of the famous Yogi Bejoy Goswami. It was as though the soul of the race had awakened and was throwing up such fine personalities. 43 In 1902, Sister Nivedita — Vivekananda's great disciple — came to Baroda, and Sri Aurobindo along with Khasirao Jadhav received her at the station. When she had an interview with the Maharaja, Sri Aurobindo was present... possible. This he did, firstly by patiently listening to both points of view, and then by setting up a supreme controlling committee of five consisting of Barrister P. Mitter, Chittaranjan Das, Sister Nivedita, Jatin himself and Surendranath Tagore, to be in overall charge of revolutionary work in Bengal. Although this committee was no conspicuously successful in its work of coordination, the movement... support the secret revolution, he hedged and said he would send word through Sri Aurobindo, which of course he never did; "Sayajirao was much too cunning to plunge into such a dangerous business".44 Nivedita saw in Sri Aurobindo the divinely ordained successor to the revolutionary side of her great Guru, Swami Vivekananda; Sri Aurobindo, on his part, had admired her distantly as the author of Kali ...
... articles were read between the lines, and sinister meanings were discovered that were never intended, and could never have been. The floating rumours took a more concrete shape when Sister Nivedita, who had contacts with men in authority, spoke to Sri Aurobindo about the possibility of his imminent arrest or deportation. It was then, as we saw in the previous chapter, that he published... us move out just now!" Surprisingly enough, there were no C.I.D. men outside the Karmayogin office that night, though that was almost the routine till then. He sent one of the young men to Sister Nivedita, requesting her in a note to take up the editorship of the Karmayogin in his absence. Preceded by Ramachandra, and followed at some discreet distance by Biren Ghose and Suresh Chakravarti (Moni)... Government, all participated in the hectic game of speculation. The exasperated police sought him here - sought him there - and drew blank everywhere. The Karmayogin, which was now edited by Sister Nivedita, published in its issue of 26 March 1910 a note sent by Sri Aurobindo from Chandernagore: We are greatly astonished to learn from the local Press that Sj. Aurobindo Ghose has disappeared ...
... first Bengali article. Well, then, after Sri Aurobindo went to Chandernagore, those who remained back in Calcutta continued to run the two papers, Dharma and the Karmayogin (left in Sister Nivedita's charge), for some time. For some time. "But afterwards," says Nolini, "we too found it impossible to carry on and our pleasant home had to be broken up. For news came that the police ...
... — it was the Mother! He was not too sure about “the French lady”. He had heard about Her, both from Her devotees and detractors. He had known other remarkable European women like Annie Besant, Sister Nivedita — but there was no question of prostrating at their feet! — others did so at the Mother’s feet — so what now? — all such thoughts were shooting and ricochetting in his mind when he was approaching... to Pondicherry, garlanded their family deity “Govindaji” with a garland of “Bokul” flowers (on Dol Purnima and Ras Purnima nights). He followed this ritual rather mechanically. It was done on his sister’s request, who had taken a vow on his behalf (because he was cured of a severe knee pain when she prayed to Govindaji). This time, i.e. in March after his first visit to Pondicherry, he was met at the ...
... not join his laboratory, as some kind of an assistant? Then one could carry on research and experiments on bombs. But how to get hold of him? I thought of Sister Nivedita. She was a great friend of Jagadish Bose and it was easy to approach Nivedita, for she was one among our circle of acquaintances. But the occasion did not arise for this line of advance, for things had been moving fast at the Gardens ...
... join his laboratory, as some kind of an assistant? Then one could carry on research and experiments on bombs. But how to get hold of him? I thought of Sister Nivedita. She was a great friend of Jagadish Bose and it was easy to catch hold of Nivedita, for she was one among our circle of acquaintances. But the occasion did not arise for this line of advance, for things had been moving fast at the Gardens ...
... n. But there are different ways of seeing a foreign civilisation and culture. There is the eye of sympathy and intuition and a close appreciative self-identification: that gives us work like Sister Nivedita's Web of Indian Life or Mr. Fielding's book on Burma or Sir John Woodroffe's studies of Tantra. These are attempts to push aside all concealing veils and reveal the soul of a people. It may well ...
... Aurobindo as the only considerable obstacle left to the success of their repressive policy. As they could not send him to the Andamans they decided to deport him. This came to the knowledge of Sister Nivedita and she informed Sri Aurobindo and asked him to leave British India and work from outside so that his work would not be stopped or totally interrupted. Sri Aurobindo contented himself with publishing... consult with anyone but in ten minutes was at the river ghat and in a boat plying on the Ganges, in a few hours he was at Chandernagore where he went into secret residence. He sent a message to Sister Nivedita asking her to take up the editing of the Karmayogin in his absence. This was the end of his active Page 63 connection with his two journals. At Chandernagore he plunged entirely into... About this period Sri Aurobindo had decided to take up charge of a Bengali daily, Nava Shakti , and had moved from his rented house in Scott's Lane, where he had been living with his wife and sister, to rooms in the office of this newspaper, and there, before he could begin this new venture, early one morning while he was still sleeping, the police charged up the stairs, revolver in hand, and ...
... At that point, Sister Nivedita informed me that they were proposing to send me out of Bengal, a form of political exile, and suggested that I leave Bengal immediately, I asked her not to be unduly troubled on my account since I had plans of my own which would force them either to alter or at least to postpone their intention of deporting me." "Were you in touch with Sister Nivedita?" "You seem... decided to set up a committee of five members, among whom were Jatin, P. Mitra and Nivedita. This solution seemed to work for a while, but soon after my return to Baroda it broke down as I had feared it might. I did not intervene in their disputes any more. I never liked quarrels of any kind." "So you knew Sister Nivedita in those days?" asked Mandakini. "Knew her? Of course I did. Didn't I tell you... to her that she could never make any advance or progress unless she became free. What we should wish for is that instead of just one Sister Nivedita a Nivedita be born in every Indian household." Page 119 "Last time I spoke to you about the Swadeshi Revolution, but it was not much," said Sri Aurobindo. "Of course, it is almost impossible to discuss it at length, since this sort of activity ...
... Damayanti by the tiny mole between her eyebrows. A little later, Damayanti escorted by a strong band of horsemen returned with Sudeva to Vidarbha. Let us now go back to the story as told by Sister Nivedita: ... Once more Damayanti was dwelling — but now with her children by her side — in her father's house. For Bhima had sent out messengers in all directions to seek for her, and by them had... Nishadas and recovered his throne, and then, returning for his Queen, Damayanti, and their children, he took them all back to their own home, and they lived there happily together ever after. Sister Nivedita Cradle Tales of Hinduism Advaita Ashrama 5 Dehi Entally Road. Calcutta 700 014 Page 63 ...
... poor girl-student of the Nivedita Girls' School out of the interest on the investment of the money realised from the sale of those ornaments. She had a small boxful of letters received from Sri Aurobindo. She desired that the box should be drowned in the Ganges after her death. It is a great pity that most valuable letters were lost to us in this way. "Though my sister led an outwardly simple life... Here is a sequel by Mrinalini's young sister: "When Sri Aurobindo was released, we all were very happy. We came to Calcutta and lived in a rented house. Mrinalini went to live with Sri Aurobindo at his aunt's place. We gave a feast in our house to celebrate his release and all were in a gay mood. Things appeared to change for the better and my sister found peace after long days of trial and t... herself in death with her Lord. There are two accounts of her life in Shillong at that period, one by her young sister and the other by her young cousin who was very fond of her; the accounts are complementary to each other. I have already given portions from 'them. Here is the sister's account: "Every early morning, after her bath she would pluck flowers from the garden. She would look incomparably ...
... but partly turned down. Samadhi. 19) Chhaya in Akash of Kali armed, followed by Chhaya of Kalki on horseback. For Feb 4ᵗʰ & 5ᵗʰ see other book. 1 Feb 6ṭḥ. 20) Chhayamay of Sister Nivedita. 21) Tejomays of a collar of pearls and two others of Jogini standing and asleep. 22) Varnamay of a dog—brownish yellow—All in the 1ˢᵗ stage of the perfect condition and in samadhi. Feb ...
... Introduction, Progressive Publishers, 1974. Singer, P (ed.), A Companion to Ethics, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991. Sircar, K., The Mimdmsa: Rules of Interpretation, Thaker, Spink & Co., 1909. Sister Nivedita, The Master as 1 Saw Him, Udbodhan, Calcutta, 1991. Sivananda, Swami, Kundalini Yoga, The Divine Life Society, Sivanand Nagar, 1994. Sukhlal jee. Pandit, Bhdrtiya Tattva Vidya, ...
... disastrous financial difficulties. Hence the editors wrote something very strong and the paper got suppressed. I started the Karmayogin some time after my second acquittal. Once I heard from Sister Nivedita that the Government wanted to prosecute and deport me. I wrote an article, "An Open Letter to My Countrymen". It prevented the prosecution. Soon after, I went away to Chandernagore. There some ...
... Dr A. K. Coomaraswamy in cataloguing the collection of art and artefacts of the Tagores; also did some illustrations for a book jointly written by Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita; and in between he taught a few art classes in the Nivedita Girls' School. Later Nandalal was requested by his guru to take charge of the classes at the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907. Finally, Rabindranath... many from the British Isles, in their individual capacities, greatly helped the people. A few are universally known, some others are less known, while still others have sunk into oblivion. Sister Nivedita, the Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda, and Justice John Woodroff, who made a deep study of Indian tantrism and wrote under the pen name of Arthur Avalon, tremendously encouraged Abanindranath... was the greatest. He found himself in the thick of the national awakening and bathed in the light of a new consciousness. The artist in him blossomed in this radiant atmosphere. Persuaded by Sister Nivedita and Aban Thakur, he joined in 1909, along with three of his classmates, the team of Lady Harringham to assist her in copying the frescoes in the rock-cut retreats of Ajanta. Here was his first ...
... organised by Barrister P. Mitter and Sarala Ghoshal (Chaudhurani), and by 1903 a strong base had been established in Bengal, the central direction being vested in a committee of five consisting of Sister Nivedita, C. R. Das, P. Mitter, Suren Tagore and Jatin Banerjee.* Then came the Partition of Bengal, the great upsurge in Bengal and in the country as a whole, the "Bhavani Mandir" pamphlet which... terrorism, and more and more desperation all round. One of the great dare-devil revolutionaries of the time, Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee), was "Dada" to everybody, knew Vivekananda and Sister Nivedita, and among his staunchest followers was M.N. Roy who was to become a leading figure in international Communism and in his later life the prophet of Radical Humanism. Jatin Mukherjee met Sri... Sri Aurobindo too didn't approve those deviations and perversions of the revolutionary movement, for his idea throughout was an armed revolution after adequate preparation. Once, when Sister Nivedita asked him whether it was one of his revolutionaries that had threatened Gokhale with death, Sri Aurobindo was able to assure her that it wasn't so. 7 But generally speaking, he found Bengal ...
... invulnerable or not. ( Laughter ) The topic changed as another question regarding survival after death and projection of the being to another place came in. Disciple : It seems that Sister Nivedita used to feel the presence of Vivekananda in the place where she lived. Sri Aurobindo : That may be presence of the disembodied person. Disciple : There is an idea that Swami X could ...
... section of the bureaucrats was in favour of deportation but the Viceroy was against this extreme move lest it trigger off a violent reaction in India and provoke criticism in England. In fact Sister Nivedita warned Sri Aurobindo that the Government might deport him and he then told her that he would take steps to forestall their action. Accordingly Sri Aurobindo wrote a signed article in the Karmayogin... yoga — that was why I came away. I gave up political connections because I knew that the work I had started would go ahead and its success was assured. My presence was not needed for it. I requested Nivedita to take up charge of the Karmayogin.' Sri Aurobindo stayed at Chandernagore for about six weeks, first at Motilal's house and then in a number of other locations to avoid attracting attention... acquittal, Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to the Editor of the Bengalee, a popular daily newspaper of thattime, to express his gratitude to all those who had sent in contributions to the fund opened by his sister Sarojini for his legal defence. The letter is beautifully worded, simple yet moving. Here is the text: Sir, Will you kindly allow me to express through your columns my deep sense of gratitude ...
... Ibid., p. 194. 6. Ibid., pp. 195-96. 7. Ibid., pp. 197-98. 8. Ibid.. p. 198. 9. Romain Rolland, The Life of Ramakrishna (Calcutta: Advaita Ashram, 1974), pp. 220-21. 10. Sister Nivedita, The Master as I Saw Him (Calcutta: Ramakrishna Math, 1977), pp. 10-11. 11. Romain Rolland, op. cit, pp. 280-81. 12. Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Calcutta:... and was free in spending it. His mother was deeply devout, highly intelligent and, though without formal education, had a remarkable memory. Naren was the eldest boy among three brothers and four sisters. In his boyhood he showed exceptional intellectual capacities and powers of concentration, as well as physical courage, self-confidence, a spirit of independence, resourcefulness and a tender ...
... Haridas Chowdhury's thesis on his philosophy, Prof. Sisir Mitra's book on history, books by Prof. Langley, Morwenna Donnelly, Prof. Monod-Herzen, Dr. Srinivas Iyengar, and Lizelle Raymond on Sister Nivedita, to mention a few. In the last three books Sri Aurobindo made extensive additions and changes. Even casual articles from young students were read and received encouragement from him. Arabinda Basu ...
... things that people said of her. It was easy enough to see that she was a remarkable and powerful personality. I had in the past come into contact with great European women like Mrs. Besant and Sister Nivedita, but there never was any question there of my prostrating myself before them, they were not Divine personalities! However, these things had not passed through my mind before I was actually face... company the night before. One of them, the youngest, was shy and spoke very little. The other two chafed her and said, "What, little one, you did not experience any joy?' 'Joy!' was the reply, 'Yes, sister, very great joy. But how can I describe it in words?' They passed along. I closed my eyes and said to my beloved, 'Truly, M'ashuqa, can that bliss be described?'" Do I not know the ecstasy ...
... Everlasting's peace, The strength of One whose substance cannot die. The moment passed and all was as before; Only that deathless memory I bore. In 1902 Sister Nivedita 22 visited Baroda. "I met Sister Nivedita at Baroda when she came to give some lectures there. I went to receive her at the station and take her to the house assigned to her; I also accompanied her to an interview... consultation or decisions about the conduct of the revolutionary movement. Later on, I began to make time to go and see her occasionally at Baghbazar 24 ". 25 "Then, about my relations with Sister Nivedita, they were purely in the field of politics. Spirituality or spiritual matters did not enter into them, and I do not remember anything passing between us on these subjects when I was with her... capacity for going into trance. She had got something. She took up politics as a part of Vivekananda's work. Her book is one of the best on Vivekananda.... She was a solid worker." 26 Sister Nivedita tried to rope in the Maharaja of Baroda into the revolutionary movement, but the response she received from the astute ruler was rather cool and non-committal. He said he would send his reply ...
... (the reader will find the Nalopakhyanam in the second volume, pp 1091 to 1164 Gorakhpur: Gita Press. —Mackenzie, Donald A. Indian Myth and Legend. New Delhi: Smriti Books, 2000. —Sister Nivedita, Cradle Tales of Hinduism. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1998 * * * Page 92 ...
... was always neat and prim and proper. But he too was equally worthy of respect for his nobility of mind and innate greatness. I have referred elsewhere in an earlier talk to his friendship with Sister Nivedita and the encouragement I had from him in my attempt to master the technique of the bomb. There was another professor of philosophy I should not omit to mention. He too was quite young at the ...
... villages of Bengal, that Bal Gangadhar Tilak had likewise brought about an awakening in Maharashtra through the institution of Ganapati Festivals, that Sri Aurobindo found an unexpected ally in Sister Nivedita for his revolutionary work, and that he had (on K.G. Deshpande's advice) tried to seek through Yoga an accession of strength for political work. Yoga and rifle-practice may seem to us an odd c... Congress methods till then in vogue. 10 In the first years after his return to India, it had appeared to Sri Aurobindo that his duty lay in prodding his countrymen - especially his brothers and sisters in Bengal - from their all too humiliating stupor. An alien rule had brought in its equipage an entirely new set of values which had with fatal ease and all too quickly become the ruling ideas of the... planet round the Sun that was the elder brother. Barindra was born in England, and while still a boy lost his father and was denied a mother's constant affection and solicitude. He first leaned on his sister Sarojini, but from early years he had also a mind and a style of his own. After passing the Entrance examination, he joined the Patna College, then moved to the Dacca College where his brother Manomohan ...
... 26. The quotation from Barin's autobiography in the Jyaistha 1349 issue is not authentic. 27. Girija quotes Surendranath Halder's opinion about Sister Nivedita's being a nihilist. But Halder can hardly be taken as an authority on Sister Nivedita. 28. In an issue dealing with 1906, Girija tries to show that Sri Aurobindo's nationalism might have been derived from Bankim, and that even the... In the issue of Agrahayan 1348, Girija's idea about Vivekananda changing from Vedanta to Kali worship and Sri Aurobindo from Shakti worship to Vedanta is fantastic. Vivekananda's instruction to Sister Nivedita does not constitute a proof that he had converted from Vedanta to Tantra. One cannot lose sight of the fact that Vivekananda was the chief disciple of one who was a lifelong devotee of Kali. Besides... true. He has written many dramas. 8. Girija's inference that Nivedita was responsible for Sri Aurobindo's decision to go to Chandernagore is not true. Again, they did not exchange ideas on spirituality. They only met in the political arena because they held identical views and were both revolutionaries. It is true that Nivedita told Sri Aurobindo about the futility of giving himself up to the ...
... Mother accepting flowers from Pranab in the "Children's court-yard" on 23/24.4.50 Our Motto Dedicated Service and Self-Culture Our Yoga Nivedita Karma and Atma-Suddhi (Dedicated Service and Self-Purification) Our Aim Spiritual Height and Material Perfection (1) It once occurred to me that since... or Yogaschitta vrittinirodhah is Patanjali's - ours too should have one. I started thinking about it. One day I asked Nolini-da. He replied: "We have a guiding principle too: Atmashuddhi and Nivedita karma (self-purification and dedicated service)." I began reflecting on it, self-purification: But whose? Purification of what? Every person's life has different levels. Truth too has different... After a certain time when mother got tired of cutting, Khudima would replace her. And she would keep cutting and we would go on eating without stop. After Khudima also got tired, Pishima (father's sister) would come. She would go on cutting and we would go on licking them clean. Then Pishima too would get up, un able to continue. Then it would be mother's turn to sit down again with the boti. And ...
... all of its articles and editorial comments, and published in it a number of his poems and translations. When he left for Chandernagore in February 1910, he put the journal into the hands of Sister Nivedita. Writings by him continued to appear in it until it ceased publication on March 26, 1910. Dharma Bengali Weekly Calcutta Started on August 23, 1909... Purushas" (February 12, 1910), "The Stress of the Hidden Spirit" (February 26, 1910) and "The Greatness of the Individual" (July 24, 1909). The Second Edition also included two articles by Sister Nivedita taken from the Karmayogin of March 12, 1910. In SABCL some of the articles are given in Volume 2 and some in Volume 3. SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2 The Harmony of Virtue Vol ...
... obstacle left to the success Page 259 of their repressive policy. As they could not send him to the Andamans they decided to deport him. This came to the knowledge of Sister Nivedita and she informed Sri Aurobindo and asked him to leave British India and work from outside so that his work would not be stopped or totally interrupted. Sri Aurobindo contented himself with... with anyone, but in ten minutes was at the river ghat and in a boat plying on the Ganges; in a few hours he was at Chandernagore where he went into secret residence. He sent a message to Sister Nivedita asking her to take up the editing of the Karmayogin in his absence. This was the end of his active connection with his two journals. At Chandemagore he plunged entirely into solitary meditation... About this period Sri Aurobindo had decided to take up charge of a Bengali daily, Nava Shakti , and had moved from his rented house in Scotts Lane, where he had been living with his wife and sister, to rooms in the office of this newspaper, and there, before he could begin this new venture, early one morning while he was still sleeping, the police charged up the stairs, revolver in hand, ...
... The toil, shame, and blister, We shall now end it all And sing in chorus Vande Mataram! 3 While returning after attending the Benares Congress, Bharati had met Sister Nivedita who, in a single moment of spiritual contact, had ignited the fire in him to a fury of poetic and patriotic effort, and in April 1906 he became editor of India, a Tamil extremist paper... teachings of Bankim Chandra and Vivekananda... ...placed the country on the altar of God and asked for suffering and self-immolation as the best offerings for His worship. 33 And Sister Nivedita and others who watched Sri Aurobindo at close quarters could see that he was a man of God, that his Nationalism was really a new religion. If it was the purpose of religion to take men to... heaven is doomed to ruin. The Government which permits it and stands looking on smiling and with folded hands is already doomed by the justice of heaven..;. But we too who look on while our sisters and mothers are outraged, - against us too the doom will go forth unless we act before it is too late. 34 The Risley Circular of 6 May provoked appropriate comment two days later: This ...
... Among powerful suggestions of Supreme Love so lavishly strewn about in the pages of Savitri, I may cite one: 10 White Roses. 11 Mother's Agenda; Vol. 7, p 258. 12 Sister Nivedita, The Master as I saw Him, Appendix A. Page 328 Then suddenly there came a downward look As if a sea exploring its own depths; A living Oneness widened at its core ...
... above were published in Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother in 1953. The third was published in On Himself in 1972. (5) Notes on Nivedita: Fille de l'Inde , by Lizelle Reymond. This biography of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble) was published by Editions Victor Attinger, Paris and Neuchatel, in 1945. In 1946, passages of Reymond's manuscript dealing with Sri... writer and leader of the Adi Brahmo Samaj, while posted in Gujaria, a town in northern Gujarat, which then was part of the princely state of Baroda. To His Sister. 25 August 1894 . Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter to his younger sister Sarojini (1877 - 1956) shortly after his first visit to his home province after his return from England. Sarojini had been an infant when he went to England. The... brought against him in the Alipore Bomb Case. It was published in the Bengalee on 18 May 1909. The "defence fund" mentioned was set up by his uncle Krishna Kumar Mitra in the name of Sri Aurobindo's sister Sarojini. To the Editor of the Hindu . [1] 7 November 1910. Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta for Pondicherry on 1 April 1910. Shortly thereafter the Government of Bengal issued a warrant for ...
... called Nationalist extremism.' But the person who really appreciated the worth of the Bande Mataram and realised that it was creating both political history and literature was a kindred spirit, Sister Nivedita. She wanted the writings in the Bande Mataram to be preserved for posterity and, fortunately it was possible to make a selection from the old files of the paper and bring out a book which forms ...
... December another letter, "To My Countrymen", was Page 127 published in the Karmayogin . There is a small history behind these letters connected with Sri Aurobindo's contact with Sister Nivedita.¹ ¹ See p. 55, The reference here is to the earlier letter; see also p. 260. Page 128 ...
... tried to coordinate their action with the help of his brother, Barindra Kumar Ghose, and Jatindranath Banerjee; at Sri Aurobindo's initiative, P. Mitter, Surendranath Tagore, Chittaranjan Das and Sister Nivedita soon formed the first secret council for revolutionary activities in Bengal. Although an effective coordination between the various groups remained elusive, some of them, such as P. Miner's Anusilan... immersed in sadhana. Most of the following extracts are from articles he had written before leaving, or perhaps sent from Chandemagore to the Karmayogin, which he had left in the charge of Sister Nivedita. At the end of March, he received a second Adesh to go to Pondicherry. The last issue of the Karmayogin came out on April 2, 1910.) February 19, 1910 Life creates institutions; ...
... Martin ('Guest House'). Far from Calcutta's bureaucratic fever-paroxysms and the incessant rumble and rattle of politics, far from his closest relations (his wife, his sister and the rest), far from his colleagues and collaborators (Nivedita, Shyamsundar), far from Chandernagore and the cover afforded by Motilal Roy, at Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo started life anew and launched into an uncertain future that ...
... correspondence’ seems to be lost.) In the same letter he characterizes Richard as a European ‘who is practically an Indian in belief, in personal culture, in sympathies and aspirations, one of the Nivedita type.’ Did Aurobindo know who Richard essentially was, namely an incarnation of the Asura of Falsehood? Given his advanced yogic capabilities there can be no doubt that he did; also, the relationship... Integral Yoga is the result of a calling rather than of a personal decision. It is a pursuit for the mature souls, ‘the pioneer few’ who have incarnated once more to help their human brothers and sisters by dedicating this earthly incarnation to the shaping of a world where suffering, hatred, darkness and death will have no dominion any more. Indeed, the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ...
... Greeting her mounted on her lion, the gods and sages cried 'Victory!' 51 Indeed the very essence of Tantra's force is brought to us soon after by Sri Aurobindo, and possibly he had Sister Nivedita in his consciousness when he wrote the lines: I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, ...
... quarter, as these articles seem to be with us to remind us now constantly of the paucity of matter. I have received Bepin Pal's Soul of India. Can you add to it by getting from Hiranyagarbha Sister Nivedita's My Master as I saw him. I am also in need, as I wrote to you once before, of R. C. Dutt's Bengali translation of the Vedas. Neither of these books is urgently wanted but please [ ] 6 keep them... favour of a politics of principles which will support one of our own men or a European like Richard who is practically an Indian in beliefs, in personal culture, in sympathies & aspirations, one of the Nivedita type. If also a certain number of votes can be recorded for Richard in Chandernagore so much the better; for that will mean a practical beginning, a tendency from the sukshma world materialised initially... statement of my opinions which is not expressly authorised by me or issued over my signature." I shall write to you about other matters in another letter. A. G. P.S. Please ask Mani Naik to see my sister before he comes here. She wants to send with him certain utensils for our use. [27] TIME INOPPORTUNE. INTERVIEW NOT POSSIBLE. WHY NOT WRITE? 13 May 1925 Page 249 [28] [8 ...
... trend was more marked still. But in 1907, the situation was rather different. There were Bengali women like Sarala Ghoshal who were in active public life, but such instances were very rare. Sister Nivedita (she, like Annie Besant, was an exception too) was a burning brazier of the revolutionary spirit. Yet most women thought - or were made to think - that their place was in the home where sometimes ...
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