The engagement took place, but the fiance died… This is the early life story of Swami Vivekananda’s most special sister Nivedita.

New Delhi, To commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the country is celebrating National Youth Day on January 12. In the year 1984, the Government of India declared Swamiji’s birth anniversary as National Youth Day. After becoming Swami Vivekananda from Narendranath Dutt, many people propagated his mission, one of whom was Nivedita. Born as Margaret Elizabeth Noble, Nivedita was given her new name by Swami Vivekananda. Nivedita was an Anglo-Irish social activist who was one of the many disciples of Swami Vivekananda.

How Nivedita got her name
She was called by the name “Nivedita” after meeting Swami Vivekananda in London in 1895. The word Nivedita is used for someone who is extremely devoted to Almighty God. Nivedita, who spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland, was engaged to a Welsh man, but he died soon after the engagement. He later received the initiation of celibacy from Swami Vivekananda.

School opened for girls
In November 1898, Nivedita opened a girls’ school in the Baghbazar area of ​​northern Calcutta. She wanted to educate those girls who were deprived of even basic education. During the plague epidemic in Calcutta in 1899, Nivedita took care of poor patients. However, due to his active contribution in the field of Indian nationalism, he had to publicly disassociate himself from the activities of the Ramakrishna Mission under the then President Swami Brahmananda. This step had to be taken to avoid their harassment at the hands of British officials in India.

born in ireland
Nivedita was born on 28 October 1867 in the town of Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland, to Mary Isabel and Samuel Richmond Noble. His father was a priest who taught him that service to mankind is the true service to God. His father had six children of whom only Nivedita (eldest), May and Richmond survived. Nivedita was educated at Halifax College run by a member of the Congregationalist Church. The headmistress of this college taught her about personal sacrifice. During this he studied many subjects including physics, art, music and literature.

In 1884, at the age of seventeen, he took up his first teaching job at a school in Keswick. In 1886, she was hired to teach at an orphanage. A year later, he took a position in the coal-mining area of ​​Wrexham in North Wales. Here, he revived his spirit of service and love for the poor, which he had inherited from his father. In Wrexham, Nivedita’s marriage is arranged to a Welsh youth, who dies soon after the engagement. In 1889, Margaret moved to Chester. By this time, his sister ‘May’ and brother ‘Richmond’ were living in Liverpool. Soon, his mother Mary joined him. Nivedita was happy to be reunited with her family. Occasionally, she would travel to Liverpool to be with him.

Swami Vivekananda changed life
In November 1895, Nivedita first met Swami Vivekananda, who had come from America to visit London and stayed there for three months. On a cold afternoon, Swami Vivekananda was expounding Vedanta philosophy in the drawing room of an aristocratic family in London. Lady Isabel Margesson, a friend of Nivedita, invited Ebenezer Cooke, who was part of the teaching staff at Margaret’s ‘Ruskin School’. She went along with him with great curiosity and interest. However, he did not know that this evening would completely change his life. After this he attended many other lectures of Swami Vivekananda and later received initiation from him.

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