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Webinar to mark Sister Nivedita's arrival in India in 1898

Discussions on Sister Nivedita's interpretations of Indian Festivals and Astronomical implications of the prime festivals like Makara Sankranti, Ratha Yatra, Kumbh Mela etc..

 

28 January, the day Nivedita landed on the soil of India was celebrated in 2025 by RKSM SNHM & KC with a Webinar on ‘Puja-Parvan: Nivedita O Vijnaner drishti te’ through Google Meet from 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm. The programme started with an Opening Song by a Brahmacharini of Sri Sarada Math.

Pravrajika Asheshaprana ji then shared how Nivedita described in detail the spirit of Indian rituals and festivals in her works especially the ‘Studies from an Eastern Home’. She read Nivedita’s subtle description of the Sarasvati Puja and Dol festival.

This was followed by the astro-mathematical explanation of the Indian rituals and festivals by Dr Sushan Konar (Scientist, NCRA-TIFR, Pune). She beautifully explained in a simplified manner how and why India has Solar, Lunar and Solar-Lunar Calendars, the truth behind 25 December being celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ, the concept of Makara-Karka Sankranti, Uttarayana-Dakshinayana, Rashi or zodiac signs and even the date and timing of the Kumbha Mela through PPT slides. 43 participants attended this webinar.

 


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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

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