{"id":2128,"date":"2023-04-20T04:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/sister-nivedita-on-love-and-death-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T04:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:20:10","slug":"sister-nivedita-on-love-and-death-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/sister-nivedita-on-love-and-death-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Nivedita on Love and Death \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Know as we might what actually happens when we die<\/a>, we spend our lives trembling at the fact of our finitude, trying to wrest from it some greater poetic truth \u2014 something that slakes the soul\u2019s thirst for meaning. Even the spiritual materialists<\/a> among us are haunted by incomprehension at the cessation of consciousness \u2014 how can this entire carnival of wonder just, one day, melt into nothingness? And what, in the end, does it all mean, will it all have meant?<\/p>\n

These questions come alive in the 1908 book An Indian Study of Love and Death<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a> | public domain<\/em><\/a>) by the Irish teacher and activist Margaret Elizabeth Noble (October 18, 1867\u2013October 13, 1911), christened Sister Nivedita<\/strong> by Swami Vivekananda<\/a> after she emigrated to Calcutta when she was twenty-one to begin devoting her life to India and the sacred search for meaning.<\/p>\n

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