News India B'day Special: Sister Nivedita, Swami Vivekananda's devout disciple

B'day Special: Sister Nivedita, Swami Vivekananda's devout disciple

"Struggle for knowledge, for strength, for happiness and for prosperity. Let all these be your aim in life": Sister Nivedita.Margaret Elizabeth Noble- a Scots-Irish lady, famously known as Sister Nivedita was one of Swami Vivekananda's

Fortunately, I knew little and was spared that torture....Always I had this burning voice within, but nothing to utter. How often and often I sat down, pen in hand, to speak, and there was no speech! And now there is no end to it! As surely I am fitted to my world, so surely is my world in need of me, waiting — ready.

The arrow has found its place in the bow. But if he had not come! If he had meditated, on the Himalayan peaks...I, for one, had never been here.'

In the year 1898, Sister Nivedita established a school for girls, who were deprived of even basic education. She was instrumental in various altruistic activities.

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