I knew very well Sister Nivedita
(she
was for many years a friend and a comrade in the political field) and
met Sister Christine,—the two closest European disciples of
Vivekananda. Both were Westerners to the core and had nothing at all
of the Hindu outlook; although Sister Nivedita, an Irish woman, had
the power of penetrating by an intense sympathy into the ways of life
of the people around her, her own nature remained non-oriental to the
end. Yet she found no difficulty in arriving at realisation on the
lines of Vedanta. |