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Inauguration of Outdoor Display Unit

In continuation with the year long celebrations of the 125th year of Sister Nivedita's arrival to India by Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Sister Nivedita Heritage Museum and Knowledge Centre , Pravrajika  Vivekaprana Mataji inaugurated an outdoor display unit in front of the museum on 9th January 2023 at 4:30pm amidst the chanting of Vedic Mantras. The glory and the places of interest of Baghbazar will be displayed through this electronic display for the passers by so that they can understand the importance of Baghbazar. TATA Steel has financially supported this project. This was followed by a welcome address by Pravrajika Asheshaprana.

Pravrajika Vivekaprana Mataji enlightened the audience about the glory of our motherland India in the ancient times as well as the relevance of its rich spiritual traditions flowing down from the rishis to the present times. She further emphasised on the greatness of Sister Nivedita, an Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda, “Who gave her all to India”, at a time when India was being tormented by colonial rule. Later there was an interesting interactive discussion with the college girls.

Prof. Sarmila Mallick Banerjee spoke about the chief traits of Sister Nivedita's character through interesting anecdotes from Sister's life.The programme ended with a closing song and distribution of prasad to the audience (around 70).

 

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Sdu4yAYGQ



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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