Nivedita, continued

If she considered something worth striving for, then she invested her entire energy in it. However, she was never interested in earning fame from the success of these ventures.  She could have easily created an organization and declared herself as its Head, but God had destined her for greater things than that. She did not compromise the blazing energy of the Truth within her by marketing her ideas and ensuring that they spread through the infrastructure of the organization. She left her heart and soul in India, but not an organization that was named after her.

Her decision not to found an organization was not because she considered herself racially and intellectually superior to the people with whom she would have to tie herself. It was not because she did not respect the Indian populace that she did not try to install herself as their leader. On the other hand, it was from her example that we learnt what giving one’s heart to the people, was. Most of us speak of ‘love for the people’ in simply academic terms without truly speaking from the heart. However just like a mother loves her child single-mindedly, Nivedita loved the Indian populace like her very own child. When she referred to the ‘people’ of India, a vast tenderness seemed to emanate from her and envelop these ‘people’. If the Indian ‘people’ could be reduced to a single child, Nivedita would have raised this child with every atom of love and dedication within her.