2022-10-28 Fri

Margaret Elizabeth Noble, better known as Sister Nivedita, was born in Ireland on 28th October 1864. She was an Anglo-Irish social worker and one of the many disciples of Swami Vivekananda. Margaret Elizabeth was devoted and kindhearted since childhood. When she was six, she learnt to read the Bible and offered to visit the old and sick people and read the holy book aloud to them.

Margaret Elizabeth met Swami Vivekananda in England and got influenced by his ideas and speeches. In 1898, she came to India and stayed in the house of the Ramakrishna Mission at Baghbazar, Calcutta. Swami Vivekananda gave her the name Sister Nivedita meaning; ‘Dedicated to God, when he initiated her into the vow of Brahmacharya on 25th March 1898. She opened a girls' school in the Bagbazar area of North Calcutta in 1989. She wanted to educate girls who needed basic education.

Sister Nivedita is regarded as one of the great women of India for dedicating her life to the cause of India and Hinduism.

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