Sister Nivedita, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sister Nivedita

Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and a disciple of Swami Vivekananda

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1867

Place of Birth: County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1911

Profession: writer, teacher, priest, social worker

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sister Nivedita

  • Sister Nivedita (Bengali pronunciation: [bhÃ¥gini: ni?bedi?ta?] listen ; born Margaret Elizabeth Noble; 28 October 1867 – 13 October 1911) was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
  • She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland.
  • From her father, a college professor, she learned the ideal of service to mankind as the true service to God.
  • She worked as a school teacher and later also opened a school.
  • She was engaged to marry a Welsh youth, but he died soon after their engagement. Sister Nivedita met Swami Vivekananda in 1895 in London and travelled to Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India in 1898.
  • Swami Vivekananda gave her the name Nivedita (meaning "Dedicated to God") when he initiated her into the vow of Brahmacharya on 25 March 1898.
  • In November 1898, she opened a girls' school in the Bagbazar area of Calcutta.
  • She wanted to educate girls who were deprived of even basic education.
  • During the plague epidemic in Calcutta in 1899, Nivedita nursed and took care of the poor patients. Nivedita had close associations with the newly established Ramakrishna Mission.
  • Because of her active contribution in the field of Indian Nationalism, she had to publicly dissociate herself from the activities of the Ramakrishna Mission under the then president Swami Brahmananda.
  • She was very close to Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Ramakrishna and one of the major influences behind Ramakrishna Mission, and also with all brother disciples of Swami Vivekananda.
  • She died on 13 October 1911 in Darjeeling.
  • Her epitaph reads, "Here lies Sister Nivedita who gave her all to India".

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