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Sister Nivedita's 155th Birthday Celebration

In continuation with the year long celebrations of the 125th year of Sister Nivedita's arrival to India, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Sister Nivedita Heritage museum and Knowledge Centre celebrated the 155th Birthday of Sister Nivedita on 28th October 2022.

Rev. Pravrajika Jnanadaprana Mataji, Asst. General Secretary, Sri Sarada Math & Ramakrishna Sarada Mission presided over the meeting and enriched the audience (School students & teachers around 550) with the inspiring presidential address.

Honourable chief guest,  Smt Nirupama Kotru, Joint Secretary & F.A, Ministry of Coal, Govt  of India graced the occasion and enriched the audience about Sister Nivedita's contribution towards Indian Art and Literature.

The other speakers - Pravrajika Bhaswaraprana, former principal, RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan enlightened about Hindu Religion and Nivedita. Dr. Debanjan Sengupta, Physician and writer spoke about journalist Nivedita and Smt Nilanjana Dasgupta, Director (Child rights and trafficking), Govt of West Bengal, spoke about decision making and leadership quality following Sister Nivedita.

The function ended with a cultural programme, a medley of narration, vocal and instrumental music by the alumni of RKSM Sister Nivedita Girls' School.

Khichuri prasad was distributed among more than 800 audience, visitors of the museum and some blood donors of a nearby blood donation camp.

 

Video Link:

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKniLxWjDnw

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw40yEi0G70

Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvWEzF3wsQ

Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d4F69zXOs

Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyf6VoN8Y3I



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“The selfless man is the thunderbolt.”

– Sister Nivedita

“Let us strive only for selflessness, and we become the weapon in the hands of the gods.”

– Sister Nivedita

“In nation-making, there is but one ideal, carried out by different methods, and the interest is the common interest of self-sacrifice.”

– Sister Nivedita

“I believe that India is one, indissoluble, indivisible.”

– Sister Nivedita

“National unity is built on the common home, the common interest, and the common love.”

– Sister Nivedita

“Technical education, without higher research, is a branch without a tree, a blossom without any root.”

– Sister Nivedita

“By our own vision of the ideal, and by our own struggle to reach its height do we really rise; by no other means whatsoever.”
– Sister Nivedita

“It is not by teaching a Bengali girl French, or the piano, but by enabling her to think about India, that we really educate her.”
– Sister Nivedita

“We must surround our children with the thought of their nation and their country. The centre of gravity must lie, for them, outside the family.”
– Sister Nivedita

“The highest art is always charged with spiritual intensity, with intellectual and emotional revelation.”
– Sister Nivedita

“All that matters is our own struggle. By that do we rise.”
– Sister Nivedita

“Struggle is worship. What else does the Gita teach its people?”
– Sister Nivedita

“A man may be a fool in technical and academic knowledge and yet a sage in which he feels and desires.”
– Sister Nivedita

“Real life begins when we die to the world of the senses.”
– Sister Nivedita

“If we learn nothing else, let us learn to give, let us learn to serve, let us learn to renounce.”
– Sister Nivedita