Saint Sara - The American Mother of Swami Vivekananda

Author: Pravrajika PrabuddhapranaPublisher: Advaita AshramYear: 2010Language: EnglishPages: 539ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186617337 DescriptionThe struggle against the force that divide individual human beings from humanity is the story of Sara Bull's life.Swami Vivekananda said about Sara Bull and Sister Nivedita, that Sara was the word and Nivedita, the voice. Sara embodied the ideals of the new consciousness generated by the Ramakrishna Movement and Nivedita gave them expression in lectures and writing.Meeting Sara Bull was the turning point in Vivekananda's American career. Nivedita wrote that in Sara Bull. Vivekananda's cause found a mother. There was none other with her sense of responsibility, foresight and wisdom.Sara Bull's home in America became a recognised school of comparative philosophy, with special care taken that Indian and Vedantic subjects should have an adequate place.From the beginning of her contact with the Indian mind, she had felt a curiosity as to the quality o