Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7994

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.