{Daily Katha:1439} निवेदिता - एक समर्पित जीवन - 17

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यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

22 जनवरी 1904 को 'हिन्दू युवा सामिति' के सदस्यों ने सरस्वती पूजा के पावन दिन अपनी समिति की वर्षगाँठ पटना में बहुत धूमधाम से मनायी। एंग्लो-संस्कृत पाठशाला का विशाल सभागृह ठसाठस भरा हुआ था। इस अवसर पर निवेदिता को भाषण देने के लिए आमन्त्रित किया गया  था। प्रो. यदुनाथ सरकार इस कार्यक्रम के अध्यक्ष थे। उन्होंने श्रोताओं से निवेदिता का परिचय 'वर्तमान कालीन महान धार्मिक चिन्तकों में से एक 'के रूप में कराया।

इस अवसर प श्रोताओं को सम्बोधित करते हुए निवेदिता ने कहा कि 'छात्रों को हमेशा अपने आपसे पूछना चाहिए कि भारत माँ उनसे क्या चाहत्ती है ? भारत की उनसे क्या अपेक्षाएं है ? शारीरिक व्यायाम तथा शारीरिक शिक्षा की आवश्यकता को महत्वपूर्ण बताते हुए उन्होंने कहा कि  पुरुषार्थ ही जीवन का रहस्य है।' उन्होंने युवकों को आह्वान किया - 'देश की उन्नति ही तुम्हारे जीवन का मुख्य ध्येय होना चाहिये। इस ध्येय तक पहुँचने के लिए सिर्फ साहित्य का अध्ययन,लेखनकार्य या व्याख्यान कौशल की खास उपयोगिता नहीं है। यह तुममें से बहुत से युवक ऐसे है, जो इन सब चिचों के लिए समक्ष है। यह सोचो कि पूरा भारत देश हमारा देश है तथा अपना देश काम चाहता है। यही सोचकर तुम लोगों को कार्यसिद्ध हेतु तैयार रहना है। ज्ञान के लिए, सामर्थ्य तथा सुख और समृद्धि के लिए तुम्हें संघर्ष करना होगा। यही सब तुम्हारे जीवन का मुख्य उद्देश्य होना चाहिए। उठो,जागो और कार्य हेतु संनद्ध हो जाओ। कहीं ऐसा न हो जाए कि युद्ध का समय समीप आ जाए और तुम सोए पड़े रहो।'

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Sister Nivedita: The Dedicated - Who gave her all to India – 27

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

Nivedita as ardent devotee of Mother India awakened national consciousness - 6

Once she was invited to the office of the Amrita Bazar Patrika on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya. She reached there walking all the way from her school on bare feet. While climbing the staircase she kept asking everybody with eagerness and simple childlike devotion. 'Where's the puja? Where's the puja?' Everybody then, perhaps, came to realize the true significance of the puja.

Buddha attained his illumination after he had sat in meditation in Bodh Gaya, after taking payasam served by Sujata. Uruvilla the place where Sujata lived, is situated near Bodh Gaya. One day Nivedita, with the entire party consisting of Jadunath Sarkar, Jagadishchandra Bose, Amala Bose etc. visited the village. The village no longer had any sign of Sujata's house, but Nivedita was overwhelmed with joy. She raised a piece of clay from the ground and touched it on her bosom, respectfully saying. 'The entire village is holy.'

Nivedita wept throughout the night before the day on which they were to leave Body Gaya. She was remembering the glorious days of the Buddhist age, and simultaneously she was remembering the ignoble position of modern India. When again would come that great awakening that had once made India the pride of the world and the center of Asia? When would that strength and enthusiasm arouse the Indians? All these thoughts tormented her throughout the night. This is how each and every part of India should become live for us, it should move us and propel us to work more for our country and its people.

About Swamiji Nivedita said that she had observed ever since she reached India till the last day of her Guru's life, that he always suffered from an excruciating pain. That pain was for his motherland-India. This intense love of Swamiji for India, with all his pride, suffering and hope, was transmitted to his 'spiritual daughter' also. To her, India became synonymous with Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. Her entire being became India, and she had no separate existence other than India. She considered India's pride and shame to be her personal pride and shame. Her Guru wanted her to become…' to India's son, the mistress, servant and friend in one.' She became all and much more. No other foreign lady could realize the hopes and aspirations of the Indian people so truly, or recognize the eternal, unblemished image of India's soul so in-depth as she did.

In fact, Nivedita's sacrifice for the cause of India was so total, intense and sincere that we feel guilty to call her a foreign lady. Never did she utter 'India's need'. 'India's women', she always said 'Our need' and 'Our women'. Any reference to India would overwhelm her with emotion. She called India Edesh (this land), and called England Odesh (that land). Therefore, Nivedita truly belongs to India. Indeed that was how the Holy Mother Sarada Devi used to feel. She said: 'Nivedita belongs to this land: she was born there in that country (West) only to propagate his (Sri Ramakrishna's) ideas and messages.'

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हमें कर्म की प्रतिष्ठा बढ़ानी होंगी। कर्म देवो भव: यह आज हमारा जीवन-सूत्र बनना चाहिए। - भगिनी निवेदिता {पथ और पाथेय : पृ. क्र.१९ }
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Sister Nivedita: The Dedicated - Who gave her all to India – 26

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

Nivedita as ardent devotee of Mother India awakened national consciousness - 5

Nivedita also always made it clear to British persons in India that she belongs to India and Indians are her people. One day she, accompanied by litterateur Dinesh Sen, was travelling in a tram car. An Englishman, noticing her to be white-skinned, was about to sit beside her. Nivedita looked at him with great annoyance. The Englishman, with his head downcast, left to find another seat. Then Nivedita rather willfully came closer to Dinesh Sen and began to discuss things, smilingly. She made it clear that not the English but the brown Indians were her own people.

Nivedita detested the English people so deeply that she would be angry with anyone who showed undue devotion towards them. One day Jadunath Sarkar was praising one such historian. Nivedita sharply retorted. 'Oh! Don't speak of him, he is a flatterer of the English.'

India was a holy land to Nivedita. Each and every person of India was sacred in her perception. One day the milkman who regularly supplied her with milk, asked her to speak something about Dharma. However, Nivedita felt diffident, rather at fault. She saluted him repeatedly and said, 'You are an Indian. What advice do you seek from me? What is that which you do not already know? You belong to the dynasty of Sri Krishna. I salute you once again.'

Living in Bengal, Nivedita developed a deep sense of respect and devotion for ceremonial worships, festivals and folk rituals. She used to worship Devi Sarasvati in her school every year. Putting the sacred mark of Homa (ceremonial fire) on her forehead, she would be joyously moving around on bare feet. Utterance of the word 'puja' itself would overwhelm her with emotion.

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हमें कर्म की प्रतिष्ठा बढ़ानी होंगी। कर्म देवो भव: यह आज हमारा जीवन-सूत्र बनना चाहिए। - भगिनी निवेदिता {पथ और पाथेय : पृ. क्र.१९ }
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स्वामीजी के पत्रों में निवेदिता

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

स्वामीजी के पत्रों में निवेदिता

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            - डा नटवरलाल माथुर

एक बार स्वामीजी के अस्वस्थ होने पर निवेदिता ने जानकारी प्राप्त करनी चाही तो स्वामीजी ने लिखा - वास्तव में मैं चुम्बकीय चिकित्सा पद्धति से क्रमषः स्वस्थ होता जा रहा हूँ, सच बात यह है कि अब मैं अच्छी तरह से हूँ। अपने कार्यों के बारे में निवेदिता को लिखते हैं - मुझे लगता है कि मैं जिस शान्ति और विश्राम की खोज में हूँ, वह मुझे कभी प्राप्त नहीं होगा। फिर भी महामाया दूसरों का कम से कम मेरे स्वदेश का - मेरे द्वारा कुछ कल्याण करा रही हैं, और इस उत्सर्ग के भव का अवलम्बन कर अपने भाग्य के साथ समझौता करना बहुत कुछ सरल है।

निवेदिता ने विद्यालय खोला था। इस पर स्वामीजी ने लिखा - डरने की कोई बात नहीं है, तुम्हारे विद्यालय के लिये धन अवष्य प्राप्त होगा, इसमें कोई संदेह नहीं है और यदि कदाचित धन न मिले तो हानि ही क्या है ? माँ जानती है कि किस रास्ते से वे ले जाना चाहती है। जिस रास्ते से ले जाये सभी रास्ते समान हैं।

निवेदिता के कार्यों की प्रशंसा में स्वामीजी लिखते हैं कि - तुम्हारे कार्य की सफलता देखकर मैं अति आनन्दित हूँ। यदि हम लोग लगे रहे तो घटनाचक्र का परिवर्तन अवश्यक होगा। प्रिय निवेदिता मेरा अनन्त आशीर्वाद। वाह गुरु, वाह गुरु ! क्षत्रिय रुधिर में तुम्हारा जन्म है। हम लोग भी गैरिक वसन धारण करते हैं। व्रत पालन में जीवन को उत्सर्ग करना ही हमारा आदर्ष है। शक्तिशालिनी बनो। कांचन अथवा और किसी भी वस्तु के अधीन न होना।

सीख देते हुए लिखते हैं - माँ ही सब कुछ जानती है। इस बात को मैं बहुधा कहता रहता हूँ। माँ से प्रार्थना करो। नेता बनना बहुत कठिन है। समुदाय के चरणों में अपना सब कुछ, यहाँ तक कि अपनी सत्ता को भी अर्पण कर देना पड़ता है। निवेदिता के एक पत्र से स्वामीजी को लगा कि वे उनके नवीन मित्रों से द्वेश भाव रखते हैं। इस पर स्वामीजी ने लिखा - कि तुम को यह बात बतला देना चाहत हूँ कि चाहे मुझ में दोश भले ही हो, परन्तु जन्म से ही मुझे मुझ में द्वेश, लोभ तथा कर्तव्य की भावना नहीं है। मैं तो इतना ही जानता हूँ कि जब तक तुम हार्दिकता के साथ माँ के कार्य कतरी रहोगी, माँ तब तक अवष्य ही तुम्हें ठीक मार्ग पर चलाती रहेगी। तुमको जिनको अपना मित्र बनाना है, उनमें से किसी के प्रति मुझे कभी कोई द्वेश-भाव उत्पन्न नहीं हुआ है। मुझे यह डर था कि अपने नवीन मित्रों से मिलने के फलस्वरूप तुम्हारा हृदय जिस ओर झुकेगा, तुम बलपूर्वक दूसरों में उस भावना को प्रविश्ठ करने के लिये सचेश्ट होगी। एक मात्र इसी कारण मैंने कभी कभी किसी विषेश व्यक्ति के प्रभाव से तुम्हें दूर रखने का प्रयास किया था। इसके अतिरिक्त और केाई कारण नहीं था।

निवेदिता के लिये स्वामीजी ने शुभकामनायें इस प्रकार व्यक्त की है - सब प्रकार की शक्तियाँ तुम में उपबद्ध हों, महामाया स्वयं तुम्हारे हृदय तथा भुजाओं में अधिश्ठित हो। अप्रतिहत महाशक्ति तुम्हारे अन्दर जाग्रत हो तथा यदि संभव हो तो इसके साथ ही तुम शान भी प्राप्त करो - यही मेरी प्रार्थना है। यदि श्री रामकृष्ण देव सत्य हों तो जिस प्रकार मेरे जीवन में मार्ग प्रदर्शन किया है, ठीक उसी प्रकार अथवा उससे भी हजार गुना स्पष्ट रूप से तुम्हें भी वे मार्ग दिखाकर अग्रसर करते रहें - विवेकानन्द

(Article published in Kendra Bharati)

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स्वामीजी के पत्रों में निवेदिता

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

स्वामीजी के पत्रों में निवेदिता

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            - डा नटवरलाल माथुर

स्वामी विवेकानन्द ने भगिनी निवेदिता को कई पत्र लिखे। वे अपने पत्रों में निवेदिता को प्रिय निवेदिता, प्रिय कुमारी नोबल, प्रिय मार्गो, प्रिय मार्गट आदि षब्द लिखकर संबोधित करते थे। निवेदिता द्वारा भारत आने की बात पर विवेकानन्द लिखते हैं कि - मैं तुमसे स्पश्ट रूप से कहना चाहता हूँ कि मुझे विष्वास है कि भारत के काम में तुम्हारा भविश्य उज्ज्वल है। आवष्यकता है स्त्री की पुरुश की नहीं, सच्ची सिंहिनी की जो भारतीयों के लिये विषेशकर स्त्रियों के लिये काम करे। तुम्हारी षिक्षा, सच्चा भाव, पवित्रता, महान् प्रेम, दृढ़ निष्चय और सबसे अधिक तुम्हारे केल्टिक रक्त ने तुमको वैसी ही नारी बनाया है जिसकी आवष्यकता है।

भारत की स्थिति का वर्णन करते हुए विवेकानन्द लिखते हैं - यहाँ कठिनाइयाँ भी बहुत है। यहाँ जो दुख, कुसंस्कार और दासत्व है, उसकी तुम कल्पना नहीं कर सकती। ष्वेत जाति के लोग तुम्हें सनकी समझेंगे और तुम्हारे आचार-व्यवहार को सषंकित दृश्टि से देखते रहेंगे। यहाँ गर्मी भयंकर पड़ती है। नगरों के बाहर विलायती आराम की कोई भी सामग्री नहीं मिल सकती। ये सब बातें होते हुये भी यदि काम करने का साहस करोगी तो हम तुम्हारा स्वागत करेंगे, सौ बार स्वागत करेंगे।

मेरे विशय में यह बात है कि जैसे अन्य स्थानों में वैसे ही मैं यहाँ भी कुछ नहीं हूँ। फिर भी जो कुछ मेरा सामथ्र्य होगा वह तुम्हारी सेवा में लगा दूँगा। अतः इस कार्य क्षेत्र में प्रवेष करने से पहले तुम को अच्छी तरह विचार कर लेना चाहिए। यदि सचमुच आना चाहती हो तो षीघ्र ही चली आओ। नवम्बर से फरवरी के मध्य तक भारत में ठंड रहती है। अधिक भावुकता कार्य में बाधा पहुँचाती है।
''वज्रादपि कठोराणि मृदूनि कुसुमादपि''

यह हमारा मंत्र होना चाहिए। कत्र्तव्य का अंत नहीं है, संसार भी नितान्त स्वार्थ पर है। तुम दुखी न होना - षुभ कार्य करने वाला कोई भी व्यक्ति दुर्गति को प्राप्त नहीं होता। कार्य के बोझ से अपने को समाप्त न कर डालना। उससे कोई लाभ होने का नहीं । सदा यह ध्यान रखना कि - कत्र्तव्य मानो मध्याह्रकालीन सूर्य है - उसकी तीव्र किरणों से जीवनी षक्ति क्षीण हो जाती है। पवित्रता, धैर्य तथा प्रयन्त के द्वारा सारी बाधायें दूर हो जाती है। इसमें कोई सन्देह नहीं कि सभी महान् कार्य धीरे-धीरे होते हैं।
निवेदिता द्वारा विवेकानन्द को उनके आदर्ष के बारे में पूछने पर वे कहते हैं - मेरा आदर्ष अवष्य ही थोड़े से षब्दों में कहा जा सकता है और वह है - मनुश्य जाति को उसके दिव्य स्वरूप का उपदेष देना तथा जीवन के प्रत्येक क्षेत्र में उसे अभिव्यक्त करने का उपाय बताना।

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Civic and National Ideals

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The first design of Indian Flag was pictured by Sister Nivedita was recently exhibited at the residential of Indian Scientists Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu. The design which was designed in 1904 has been safely restored for years, said the officials. The flag was designed in a square shape on a red piece of cloth with an image of Vajra in yellow, stood vertically at the centre of the flag. Additionally, Vande Mataram has written across the centre of the flag, in Bengali. This design was fist showcased in 1906 at a workshop of the Indian National Congress in Kolkata.

Let not forget that at the heart of the circle lies the sacred object. Already  there are rising amongst us, hereafter to be multiplied in number and deepened in significance, hose other processions, symbolic of the idea of city and nationality. Already it is no uncommon thing to see the streets and lanes of a Hindu town filled with its singing boys who, carrying banners and instruments, are chanting prayers to no god or godess, but intoning the sacred address to the Motherland. Let us all remember as we watch them, that the city about which they march is the symbol of the nationality, that in her is the throne of the Mother Herself. The future will see more and more of these hymns and poems of place. It was a Mohommedan who composed that Ascription to the Ganges that every Hindu child in Bengal learns in babyhood. In doing so, he was the forerunner of a new ear in literature. Even now we are only on the threshold of that great age. But many who are young to-day will not have grown old before these things shall come to pass. To Indian hearts, Hindu and Mohommedan alike, his caste and lowly-born, woman and man, there will be no symbol so holy as, firstly, their mother land, and secondly, their city. The civic life will offer a conception as clear as that of family and home. The duties of citizenship will seem not less precious than those of jati and samaj. And the worship of place and sense of civic honour, dignity, and happiness will bear their flowers in each individual soul. (-Sister Nivedita : Civic and National Ideals)

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निवेदिता - एक समर्पित जीवन - 16

  स्वामी जी का अन्त समय

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

जून 21 को निवेदिता स्वामीजी से मिलने मठ गयीं। तब स्वामीजी ने कहा था -एक उग्र ध्यानावस्था मेरे ऊपर हावी होती जा रही है। मैं मानसिक रूप से मृत्यु का स्वागत करने के लिए पूर्ण रूप से तैयार हूँ। दो जुलाई,1902 बुधवार को निवेदिता पुनः मठ गयीं। एकादशी का दिन था। स्वामीजी ने खुद तो उपवास रखा हुआ था पर उन्होंने निवेदिता को अपने हाथों खाना परोसने का हठ किया और आग्रहपूर्वक खाना खिलाया। खाना समाप्त होने के पश्चात स्वामीजी ने निवेदिता के हाथों पर पानी डालकर हाथ धुलवाये तथा गमछे से उनके हाथ पोंछे। स्वाभाविक ही निवेदिता ने इस सब बातों का विरोध किया,पर स्वामीजी ने उसकी एक न सुनी। ये सब बातें तो मुझे आपके लिए करनी चाहिए स्वामीजी, आपको मेरे लिए नहीं -निवेदिता ने कहा।

तब स्वामीजी ने गम्भीरता से उतर दिया - ईसा मसीह ने अपने शिष्यों के पैर धोये थे। पर अपने जीवन के अन्तिम समय में........... ये शब्द निवेदिता को होठों तक आये, पर उन्होंने इन शब्दों का उच्चारण नहीं किया। यह अच्छा ही हुआ कि ये शब्द उच्चारित नहीं हुए, क्योंकि यहाँ भी अन्तिम समय आ चुका था।

शुक्रवार 4 जुलाई को स्वामी विवेकनन्द रोज से अधिक तन्तुरुस्त लगे। पिछले सालों से अधिक स्वस्थ वे उस दिन नजर आ रहे थे। दोपहर तक वे मन्दिर में थे। नित्यानुसार तीन घण्टे तक उन्होंने छात्रों को संस्कृत पढ़ायी। जो कोई भी उनसे मिला सबसे बात की। शाम को घूमने गए।

वहाँ पहुँचने पर  निवेदिता को पता चला कि पिछली सन्ध्या की आरती होने के बाद स्वामीजी ध्यानमग्न हो गए। करीब एक घण्टे बाद वे चैतन्य हुए और फिर फर्श पर बिछे उनके बिस्तर पर लेट गए। तथा अपने एक शिष्य को उन्होंने पंखा झलने को कहा। ऐसे ही एक  और घण्टा बीत गया। फिर उनका हाथ थोड़ा सा हिला, फिर दो बार दीर्घ श्वसन सुनाई दिया और फिर सब शान्त हो गया।

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निवेदिता - एक समर्पित जीवन - 15

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

                                                    माँ काली के प्रति श्रद्धा                                                  

1899 में दुर्गा पूजा तथा काली पूजा मठ में ही सम्पन्न हुई। निवेदिता की पाठशाला काली पूजा के ही दिन शुरू हुई थी। धीरे-धीरे सन्यासियों के समागम से निवेदिता के ह्रदय में माँ काली का स्वरूप स्पष्ट होने  लगा। उसके मन में कालीभाव जाग्रत होने लगा। उसने माँ काली को शिव-शक्ति के रूप में स्वीकार कर लिया और उस पर निवेदिता की श्रद्धा दृढ होने लगी।

इसी तरह की श्रद्धापूर्ण भावनाओं के कारण निवेदिता कालीघाट के मन्दिर में भाषण देने के लिए तैयार हो गयी।

उनके भाषण का आयोजन 28 मई को शाम 5 बजे आयोजित किया गया था। स्वामीजी ने निवेदिता से कहा कि यदि उनके यूरोपियन मित्र इस अवसर पर उपस्थित रहते हैं, तो उन्हें भी अपने जूते उतारकर फर्श पर नीचे बैठना होगा,ताकि ईश्वर के सामने कोई भी किसी प्रकार का अपवाद नहीं रहे।

ठीक वक्त पर  निवेदिता नंगे पाँव मन्दिर पहुंची। स्वामीजी कुछ अस्वस्थता के कारण इस भाषण में उपस्थित नहीं थे, यह सभा मन्दिर के सभागृह में हो रही थी तथा करीबन 3000 श्रोतागण एक विदेशी महिला को, देशी माँ काली के बारे में सुनने के लिए एकत्र थे। उनका भाषण बहुत ही प्रभावशाली तथा धर्मोत्तेजक भावनाओं को जाग्रत करने वाला रहा और सारे श्रोता इन धार्मिक विचारों के सागर में बहुत गहराई से उतर कर मन्त्रमुग्ध हो उनके भाषण को सुनते रहे। बड़े ही पवित्र भाव के साथ गुरु-गम्भीर आवाज में इन शब्दों के साथ उन्होंने अपना भाषण शुरू किया था -  यह पवित्र देवालय जहाँ हम लोग शाम एक-दूसरे के समक्ष यही, वह जगह है माँ काली के सभी मन्दिरों में पवित्र, कालीघाट मन्दिर का सभागृह| आज तक सैकड़ो दुःखी तथा आर्त भक्तों ने अपने दुःखों के वक्त, जरुरत के समय इस मन्दिर की शरण ली है और माँ की मूर्ति के समक्ष अपने ह्रदय को खोलकर रख दिया है। इसी मन्दिर में कई लोग अपनी मनोकामना पूरी होने पर कृतज्ञातापूर्वक आभार मानने आते हैं। यही वह मन्दिर है जिसका स्मरण माँ काली के भक्तों को अपने अन्तिम समय में भी रहता है। यहाँ पर माँ काली ने अनेक सन्तों तथा अनेक उपासकों को साक्षात दर्शन दिए हैं।

सन्ध्या तथा उषाःकाल के समय माँ काली की धीर गम्भीर पवित्र वाणी इसी मन्दिर से उठकर पूरे विश्व में फैल रही  है जो अपने भक्तों से कह रही है - मेरे बच्चो, मैं हूँ, और हरदम तुम्हारे साथ हूँ, मैं तुम्हारी प्रत्यक्ष माँ ही हूँ।

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Sister Nivedita: The Dedicated - Who gave her all to India – 25

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

Nivedita as ardent devotee of Mother India awakened national consciousness - 4

This deep love for India in Nivedita was born out of her total understanding of the soul of India. Nivedita has written these words about Swamiji's patriotism: 'India was Swamiji's greatest passion…. India throbbed in his breast, India beat in his pulses, India was his day-dream, India was his nightmare.' Such patriotism had manifested in Nivedita also. She used to recite every moment, like a sacred mantra: 'Bharatvarsha, Bharatvarsha' and she would become ecstatic while doing this. She held everything in India as sacred, deserving worship. She would hold a specific practice in high esteem, even if it might have lately fallen into disuse, only because it must have been beneficent for India in the past. Before boarding a boat from a ghat on the river Ganga, she would touch its water to her head like any other Hindu woman. She would always keep her hands folded in the gesture of pranama whenever she approached any temple or a deity.  

Love for a country also means a patience to put up with its age-old traditions; not to get impatient, but to wait patiently if need be that they evolve as per the need of the time. Nivedita never criticized the traditions. Many of Nivedita's students would not take food from her hand, because she was a foreigner. But, such an attitude shown by the very students who were to her dearer than her own life could not hurt Nivedita. Rather, she respected their firmness to abide by social norms. She never wanted to hurt people's sentiments or give injury to traditional social practices and rituals of Indians.

One day Nivedita hired a boat and took her students to visit Dakshineshwar temple. Alighting from the boat, she first reached Sri Ramakrishna's room and spent a long time in meditation with others. Then she took the girls to see Bhavatarini. All the girls entered the temple and saluted the Mother Kali. But Nivedita had no right of admission inside the temple. Therefore, she reached the end part of the natmandir, negotiating her way through the chandni by the side of the river Ganga. Standing over there, she saw the Mother Kali. The girls were very sorry that Nivedita had to take Darshan of Mother Kali that way. But Nivedita was not disturbed, she was overwhelmed with joy having had the vision of the Mother even from there.

Nivedita never criticized the orthodox traditions of the Hindu society. Her one-time colleague and well-known writer, Sarlabal Sarkar wrote in her reminiscences of Nivedita, 'When Nivedita went Dakshineshwar, she humbly stood at the gate because she knew that she had no right to enter the temple and see the Goddess. But, alas! I cannot say how many amongst those who even had the privilege to worship Her, were as worthy as Nivedita!. I have observed that when she came our houses, she always remained aloof lest by her touch our things might be polluted.'

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Sister Nivedita: The Dedicated - Who gave her all to India – 24

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Nivedita as ardent devotee of Mother India awakened national consciousness - 3

She was a great inspiration to the youth in Calcutta. She always felt that effective service to motherland could not be done from comfortable levels. It was noon and so it was extremely hot, as it was the summer session. On reaching her room along with some youth, she immediately opened all the doors and windows. Waves of hot air filled the room, but she didn't bother at all. She removed the mattress laid on the cot and unrolled her own small mat and a thin kantha (bed spread) over that. Those youth who had accompanied her were struck with wonder, she said, 'I am practicing austerity. And I want you to practice it because of the nature of the task you're set upon to perform. No luxury befits those who want to free their country'.
     
Nivedita's love for India was so vibrant that she would not tolerate any wrong words being told or any injustice meted out. On 11th February 1905. Lord Curzon, while giving the convocation address at the University of Calcutta, said that truth was given a higher place in the moral codes of the West before it had been similarly honoured in the East. The Indian students were called by him as untruthful. The educated Indians attending the meeting were hurt, but no one raised a single word in protest. Nivedita was present at the meeting. She became furious at the insult. She just could not silently endure the indignity caused to India.

Nivedita was a very well read person. At the end of the meeting, she forcibly took Sir Gurudas Bannerjee to the Imperial Library. She drew out the book, 'Problems of The Far East' by Lord Curzon, and showed him the pages 155-56 of the book where Curzon had proudly described how he had given false statements about his age and marriage to the President of the Korean Foreign Office to win his favour. On 13th February, Amrita Bazar Patrika, published in the editorial 'Who is Untruthful' the excerpts from Lord Curzon's convocation address together with the relevant portion from the book proving his use of untruth. The next day that news item (published in the Amrita Bazar Patrika) was reproduced in The Statesman with comments. It triggered a serious movement throughout the country over Lord Curzon's false statements and his unfair allegations against Indians.

On 14th February, Nivedita addressed another letter to the editor of The Statesman, which was published with a caption 'The Highest Ideal of Truth'. In the letter, she quoted copiously from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas to show how truth was held in an exalted position in this country. She was more pained to see the cowardly silence of the students present at the meeting who did not say a single word in protest. In the letter, Nivedita censured them also: 'The students, to whom these statements were addressed, received them in "a faultless silence". They did well. Less well, however, must we think it, if they stepped into manhood, remembering charges so leveled at their dead ancestors and their national codes, with never a word offered in defense!'

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Letter About India By Sister Nivedita

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Letter About India By Sister Nivedita

Off Minicoy
June 29th, 1899

Another great characteristic of Indian Society as compared with Western, is the much higher civilisaion and refinement of the lower orders. It is difficult for the European mind to recognise this fact under the mask of that grinding poverty which is so apparent here. The Occidental conception of social development concerns itself much with labour and with letters, and more or less presupposes a condition of material prosperity. That is to say we are not able to detach the idea of the thing itself from that form of it which we have happened to produce. But if we drive the question of the ultimate significance of civilisation home, we shall all, I think , unite to acknowledge that it lies in a habit of self-restraint, in that which lifts man above the brute, rather in any special series of phenomena. And in these directions the busteepopulation of an Indian cit is so far ahead of the slum population of London, Paris, or New York that an impartial critic could not fail to assign ther order of age of their social system correctly without a priori information.

Hindu culture is, in fact, like a gigantic tree which is constantly embracing a wider and wider area with its roots. Through ages this huge organism has been at work, silently reclaiming more and more of humanity from barbarism. Perhaps each successive stratum won may have been a new caste taken in. Religious notions would seem to be the first great unifying nerves sent out. Then follow, through in what order I can not guess, various accretions of customs, till by degree appear the old gentleness, the old self-direction, and the old horror of defilement.

And so, silently, steadily, borne on the age-long stream of tendency to its inevitable goal, proceeds, the education of a continent. The immensity of the original task can only be surmised from the time that has already elapsed in its accomplishment, and the number of tribes still excluded from the pale. But the value of an image-worshipping, temple-building, must be incalculable. The influence of woman, too, on civilisation, is probably vastly greater in India than in the West. And this because the one woman to whose guidance a man is more or less willing to resign himself is also she whose impress is most indelible-his mother.

Treating her child as a baby for at least two years, making herself his constant companion whenever he is in the house, cooking for him and watching him eat, and at the day's end telling him stories till he sleeps, it is not easy to overrate the part which the mother and the grandmother play, in the life of the rising generations.

And this influence is redoubled, when the boy marries. In the West
"My son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life."

The exact contrary is the case in India, where the little daughter-in-law comes home to the moulded and educated by her husband's mother, while the daughter of the house goes forth to receive her training at other hands.

As one looks at modern India, therefore, one feels that in the womanly touch on the individual and on homelife lies the pivotal point of its being. There can be no doubt that to this is due that saturation of the people with their own folklore to which I referred in my first letter, and the exact  conservance of religious custom from age to age must surely be traced to the same source. A man may be a constant visitor in a Hindu house without even knowing where the rooms are in which the ladies live. Strength, it has been said, lies in reserve, and those who are here so strictly concealed are perhaps all the more potent for that fact!

It is to women, then- who have wielded with such power those great impulses of purity, renunciation, and spirituality upon which the India of today is built – it is to these that must be committed those other ideas of strength, freedom, and humanity, which are to prove the legacy of this age to the world.

Without the underlying development strength would be a word of mockery: it is not to the denationalised that this inspiration can come in its vigour.  All the tremendous discipline of the Hindu woman will be taxed to its utmost, to win and use that expanded education which she will need for this task. But she will be found equal to it all, for she will be answering the cry of her own children- and is she not an Indian mother?

Nivedita

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Letter About India By Sister Nivedita

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Letter About India By Sister Nivedita

Off Ceylon
June 27th, 1899

We are rounding Cape Dondra. All day long we have been coasting the eastern side of Ceylon, a land lovely with palm-forest and pasture, with roselit cliff and curving broken rock.

It is the Hour of Peace. Every day at this time, as sunlight dies, the sea begins to utter itself in a new tone. A kind of sorrowful sighing mingles with the sound of waves, and every night and all night long, does this low moaning of the waters. But tonight it is as if the soft voice spoke to itself a name - the name of Sita; and again, as a higher surge than common rises, and beats against the ship, "Jai Sita - Ram ! Sita - Ram ! Jai ! Jai ! Jai ! " one hears dying away in the distance.

That snow-white ring of surf against the shore has a significance all its own here, where it girdles he prison of the most perfect wife the world has ever seen.

Bryhild, the warrior princess of the northern story could be come at only through the Circle of Flame but Sita-type and crown of Indian womanhood-has for her magic guard and the "wine-dark sea", and the fair sea foam that breaks among the rocks.

Oh lovely Lanka, and beautiful dreamy Indian sea, fraught with memories like this and the obedience of Hanuman, you under your forests of palm and your groves of cinnamon, are surely one of the jewels of the world!

Great days of the Heroes, come back to us, the weary children of a meaner age waken us from our slumber, redeem us from our weakness, and let us once more breast our own storms, and battle with our own needs, as in the times of old!

But the Hour of Peace is gone, and we are turning to the West. Out there is Galle Point; tomorrow at seven we reach Colombo; only a few days more, and the beloved land will be a memory, an ever-present and ever-beautiful memory truly, but more and actuality. There is pain in all partings; in this, though it is only for a while, how much!

It was eighteen months ago that I, a stranger, passed this way before, and tonight, as a man sums up a situation, I have a fancy to make reckoning with my own soul as to the drift of the impressions that I have gathered, in the year and a half just gone.

In the first place, I remember gratefully privileges accorded to few of my race. Received by the Mother-land as one of her own children, I have been permitted to see her, as it were, without her veil. I have been allowed to share in the life of the people. Kindness has been showered upon me. Neither poverty nor worship has been hidden from my eyes.

And the outstanding impression that I have gathered from such experience. Is that this is a people with a curious habit of producing great men unexpectedly. Whatever may be thought of the average development of character in the race, I am convinced that moral genius is commoner here than elsewhere. For by "greatness" I do not particularly with to imply any kind of intellectual or physical expertness-these I regard as more accessories: I refer rather to a certain largeness of feeling which lifts a man out of all that is individual and makes him stand to humanity as the interpreter of another life. Sometimes that life surrounds him almost as a light upon the face; sometimes we realise it in the growing sweetness with which years of self-sacrifice are borne; in India I have seen it lift even scientific research into sainthood. However it manifests itself, we all know that in some men's veins runs the blood of the gods, and of such men India has more than her due share numerically.

And I can trace this effect to three probable causes. The first two I find in the tremendous emotion and concentration of the Hindu temperament. Hindu feeling is something that makes the merely Western feel himself a dwarf before a giant. That jealous privacy which marks the inner life of Oriental nations causes this feature to be little suspected  by Europeans. They are more or less deceived by the mask of indifference that is worn with such success. To a certain extent, indeed the indifference is real. Strong forces are rarely evoked by a slight stimulus. But when the secret note is sounded in this case, sleeping energies of joy or suffering are apt to be aroused, beside which life itself seems a very very little thing.

Another reason why Europeans as a rule are so completely unaware of the real nature of those with whom they deal is that these energies commonly express themselves in a language outside their ken. The Japanese have applied the same thing to the patriotic, instead of the religious idea, and the West has understood at once. As to Indian concentration, one comes to India to learn that the secret of holiness is here, and having learnt, silence seems the only reverence. When all selfishness, all littleness, all greed, has burnt itself away and the man has become only the voice of the Chosen Idea of his life, then we learn what Renunciation is, what Devotion is, and again India stands supreme.

But these gifts of temperament would scarcely have been enough without the subtle and immense ideals which are the possession of the people of this country. It is not the Vedas so much as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata that are today its Bible, and these epics are known to all. There is indeed a terrible reverse to the medal, for a lofty conception of duty always paralyses. Some in proportion as it inspires others, but one inevitable result of the constant companionship of Hanuman and Bhima, of Rama and Yudhisthira, is sublime attainment on the part of many.

And so I lay one flower of love and worship a the feet of the Motherland. May she receive many of her alien-born children as she has received me! May she bestow on them even some little of that undeserved Motherhood and bounty that she has bestowed on me!

Nivedita

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निवेदिता - एक समर्पित जीवन - 15

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  गोपाल-माँ की सेवा    

गोपाल माँ की व योगिन-माँ श्रीरामकृष्ण की अन्य दो वृद्ध शिष्याएँ थीं। जब श्रीमाँ निवेदिता की विद्यालय का उद्घाटन करने गईं तो ये दोनों भी साथ थीं। उनके विद्यालय के 'महिला विभाग' में योगिन-माँ पढ़ाती भी थीं। इन महिलाओं से प्रेम व सेवा के जिस अपूर्व बन्धन ने निवेदिता को जोड़ा था, वह गोपाल की माँ के साथ उनके सम्बन्ध से व्यक्त होता है। अस्सी वर्ष से अधिक आयु की ये वृद्धा श्रीमाँ के परिवार में एक विदेशी महिला को पहली बार देख कर उद्विग्र हो गई थीं; किन्तु बाद में उन्हें 'नरेंद्र की पुत्री' कहा करती थीं। जब वे 90 वर्ष की हो गई उनसे चला फिरा भी नहीं जाता था, तब 1903 में निवेदिता के ही घर में रहने लगीं। आपनी इस 'प्रिय छोटी सी दादी' तथा 'परमप्रिय सम्पदा' की सेवा के लिए निवेदिता ने एक सेविका नियुक्त कर दी। अपने अनेक कार्यो के बीच में भी उनके पास बैठने व उनकी सेवा करने के लिए निवेदिता सदा ही समय निकाल लेतीं थीं। गोपाल की माँ का देहान्त 6जुलाई 1906  को हुआ और निवेदिता ने उनकी सेवा अन्त तक की।

इन सभी महिलाओं के सम्मान में, जिनसे वे बहुत कम वार्तालाप कर पाती थीं, निवेदिता लिखा -' ......... प्रेम को सप्रेम व विश्वास सहित स्वीकार करने की इन पूर्वी महिलाओं की तत्परता को व्यक्त करने के लिए भाषा की आवश्यकता नहीं थी। केवल सोचती हूँ कि ऐसे ही किसी रूप में भारतीय लोगों की वास्तविक अपूर्व बुद्धि की थाह मिल सकती है।'

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निवेदिता - एक समर्पित जीवन - 14

यतो धर्म: ततो जय:

बंगला से प्रेम

बंगला भाषा निवेदिता को अतिप्रिय थी। बंगला भाषा की छोटी -छोटी बातें जब जिसके पास से संभव होता, वे सीख लेतीं। अपने स्कूल की बालिकाओं से भी कभी-कभी वे बंगला सीखा करतीं। उस दिन विनम्र छात्रा जैसा भाव होता। एक दिन एक बालिका स्लेट पर लकीर खींचते-खींचते बोली-लाइन खींच रही हूँ। 'लाइन' शब्द कान में पड़ने के साथ ही निवेदिता उसके पास आकर बोली, लाइन तो अंग्रेजी शब्द है, तुम अपनी भाषा में बोलो; किन्तु बोलने लगीं, सिस्टर, हम लोग तो हमेशा लाइन ही बोलती हैं। दुःख तथा नाराजगी से निवेदिता का मुखमण्डल लाल हो गया। उन्होंने कहा, तुम लोग अपनी भाषा ही भूल गयी हो। अचानक एक बालिका को याद आ गया तथा वह बोली - लाइन का प्रतिशब्द है - रेखा। फिर तो निवेदिता के आनन्द की सीमा न रही। उन्हें मानो खोयी हुई कोई चीज मिल गयी हो,फिर वे बारम्बार उच्चारण करने लगीं-रेखा,रेखा,रेखा।'

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Sister Nivedita: The Dedicated - Who gave her all to India – 23

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Nivedita as ardent devotee of Mother India awakened national consciousness - 2

When Nivedita went to Morris College, Nagpur in October 1902 one incident happened. She was invited to preside over a meeting, and later was made to give away prizes to the participants of the cricket game. After the prize-giving ceremony, she took the students to serious task in her lecture. That was the time of the Dusserah festival. Nivedita said, 'It is indeed a matter of great shame for the students to enjoy joyously a foreign game during the days of Dusserah when you should instead worship war weapons, and invoke strength from the Goddess Durga by worshipping her. If I had known this before that I have to give prizes for cricket game, I certainly would not have agreed to preside over the meeting. I had hoped that in the capital of the great 'Bhonsle' kings, I will see some demonstration of heroic feats of the Marathas. I am indeed sad not being able to see that'.

Nivedita demanded from the students that on the next day they must demonstrate before her sword-fighting, wrestling and other exercises on martial arts. Most of the college students did not know any such exercise. Somehow a few boys from outside and only one college student were made ready for this; they showed her the exercises as desired by her. She then addressed the students, 'You are lately getting more of higher studies. More than the required number of graduates are being turned out from the universities, who with their broken health can hardly protect themselves, not to speak of protecting the dignity of their mothers and sisters. The society will not derive any benefit from these heaps of debris. The country demands true patriots, powerful in body and mind. The country has no need of those people who would serve their foreign masters while hounding their fellow countrymen. Love India, my dear students! Love her intensely as only powerful patriots can raise the country and make their own life meaningful'.

It was during the summer days of 1903. Nivedita was coming to Medinipur. Many people assembled at the railway station to greet her. The moment she alighted from the train, the crowd shouted, 'Hip, Hip, Hooray'. They thought that the white-skinned English woman should better be greeted in that fashion. However, Nivedita looked utterly shocked. With her hand she asked them to stop. Then she explained that 'Hip, Hip, Hooray' was the victory shout of the English people, and the Indians should by no means use that. She raised her hand and shouted three times – Wahe Guruji ka Khalasa Wahe Guru ki Fateh. The entire crowd joined her in shouting.

To be Continue

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