The Dedicated - Sister Nivedita

How a fiery Irish school teacher, inspired by Swami Vivekananda, helped liberate India When a great man has prepared his workers, he must go to another place, for he cannot make them free in his own presence. I am nothing more for you. I have handed over to you the power that I possessed; now I am only a wandering monk." With these stirring words, the mighty colossus, Swami Vivekananda, sent his great disciple, Sister Nivedita, into the battlefield of India's freedom struggle. She was to seek not only political freedom, but freedom of the spirit as well. Born on October 28, 1867, at Dungannon in Ireland, Miss Margaret Noble, as she was known in her youth, belonged to a family of Irish freedom fighters. A school teacher by profession, she came under the spell of Swami Vivekananda following his epoch making appearance at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago. Five years later, she traveled with him to India. There she was initiated on March 25, 18...

The Punya Bhumi Bharat has produced number of great sons and daughters who has shown the light to the world.  Whoever has come in touch with this nation got influenced by the great ideals upheld by it. Sister Nivedita is one of the greatest among them who gave her all to this Punya Bhumi.  The transformation of Margaret Elizabeth Noble to Nivedita, the dedicated was not all of a sudden. The cold Sunday of November in 1895 was the turning point in her life. The great ‘Hindu Yogi’ shaken her up and helped her to dispel all of her doubts for the search for the Divine Light & Eternal Truth. The Hindu Yogi not only cleared her doubts but also gave her the mission of her life. After the first meeting with Swami Vivekananda, she wrote to her friend “suppose he had not come to London that time! Life would have been like a headless dream; for I always knew that I was waiting for something. I always said that a call would come.  And it did.” The First meeting with Swami Vivekan...