Lizelle Reymond spent many years of her life in the Himalayas, mostly in Almora, Studying and working with Shri Anirvan.
Four books describing her life and the teaching she received there have been published: My life with a Brahmin Family, 1958, To Live Within, 1971, Shakti, 1974 and Letters From a Baul, 1983.
She traveled all over India and spent several years writing this biography of Nivedita, which was first published in 1953. Between 1935 and 1953 she translated a number of sacred Indian texts and these were published in France. Now Lizelle Reymond lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
Preface | v | |
PART ONE | THE QUESTING SOUL | |
1 | A stranger Comes to India | 3 |
2 | An Irish Child | 9 |
3 | The School girl | 15 |
4 | Learning as a Teacher | 21 |
5 | Meeting | 31 |
6 | The Disciple | 40 |
7 | Toward the East | 54 |
PART TWO | THE GURU | |
8 | Early Impressions | 69 |
9 | The first Steps | 74 |
10 | She who Had been Dedicated | 84 |
11 | First Fruits | 90 |
12 | The Path to sacrifice | 99 |
13 | Uprooted | 115 |
14 | Disappointment and Discovery | 123 |
15 | Lessons in an Interlude | 133 |
16 | At the Feet of Sarada Devi | 136 |
17 | Zenana | 143 |
18 | The Choice | 151 |
19 | The Vows for life | 158 |
20 | The school for Girls | 162 |
21 | Brahmo Samaj Friendship | 170 |
22 | The worship of kali | 184 |
23 | Westward | 191 |
24 | London Again | 198 |
25 | Sannyasa | 203 |
26 | Work in the United states | 215 |
27 | In France: Decision | 220 |
28 | New Points of View | 229 |
29 | The New Resolve | 236 |
30 | Reunion- and Loss | 241 |
PART THREE | MOTHER INDIA | |
31 | A Political Mission | 255 |
32 | Spreading the Swami's Message | 266 |
33 | The New life | 274 |
34 | Young India | 280 |
35 | The Nivedita School | 288 |
36 | Dynamic Religion and United India | 296 |
37 | The Woman, at Home | 303 |
38 | Budh-Gaya | 308 |
39 | Svadeshi | 312 |
40 | Interlude | 317 |
41 | In the Limelight | 320 |
42 | Deeds, Deeds, Deeds! | 324 |
43 | From Art to Bombs | 332 |
44 | Exile | 339 |
45 | The last Battle | 345 |
46 | Kedarnath | 353 |
47 | Final Tasks | 361 |
48 | The end of the Journey | 368 |
Lizelle Reymond spent many years of her life in the Himalayas, mostly in Almora, Studying and working with Shri Anirvan.
Four books describing her life and the teaching she received there have been published: My life with a Brahmin Family, 1958, To Live Within, 1971, Shakti, 1974 and Letters From a Baul, 1983.
She traveled all over India and spent several years writing this biography of Nivedita, which was first published in 1953. Between 1935 and 1953 she translated a number of sacred Indian texts and these were published in France. Now Lizelle Reymond lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
Preface | v | |
PART ONE | THE QUESTING SOUL | |
1 | A stranger Comes to India | 3 |
2 | An Irish Child | 9 |
3 | The School girl | 15 |
4 | Learning as a Teacher | 21 |
5 | Meeting | 31 |
6 | The Disciple | 40 |
7 | Toward the East | 54 |
PART TWO | THE GURU | |
8 | Early Impressions | 69 |
9 | The first Steps | 74 |
10 | She who Had been Dedicated | 84 |
11 | First Fruits | 90 |
12 | The Path to sacrifice | 99 |
13 | Uprooted | 115 |
14 | Disappointment and Discovery | 123 |
15 | Lessons in an Interlude | 133 |
16 | At the Feet of Sarada Devi | 136 |
17 | Zenana | 143 |
18 | The Choice | 151 |
19 | The Vows for life | 158 |
20 | The school for Girls | 162 |
21 | Brahmo Samaj Friendship | 170 |
22 | The worship of kali | 184 |
23 | Westward | 191 |
24 | London Again | 198 |
25 | Sannyasa | 203 |
26 | Work in the United states | 215 |
27 | In France: Decision | 220 |
28 | New Points of View | 229 |
29 | The New Resolve | 236 |
30 | Reunion- and Loss | 241 |
PART THREE | MOTHER INDIA | |
31 | A Political Mission | 255 |
32 | Spreading the Swami's Message | 266 |
33 | The New life | 274 |
34 | Young India | 280 |
35 | The Nivedita School | 288 |
36 | Dynamic Religion and United India | 296 |
37 | The Woman, at Home | 303 |
38 | Budh-Gaya | 308 |
39 | Svadeshi | 312 |
40 | Interlude | 317 |
41 | In the Limelight | 320 |
42 | Deeds, Deeds, Deeds! | 324 |
43 | From Art to Bombs | 332 |
44 | Exile | 339 |
45 | The last Battle | 345 |
46 | Kedarnath | 353 |
47 | Final Tasks | 361 |
48 | The end of the Journey | 368 |