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The Complete Works of Sister Nivedita Vol - Sister Nivedita, known as Margaret Elizabeth Noble, was a great disciple of Swami Vivekananda. The Swami has dedicated her to the service of India and hence called he ‘Nivedita’. Sister Nivedita’s was a fiery spirit that knew no rest till her whole personality was spent for the cause of her dedication—India. In the midst of her tireless efforts for the amelioration of Indian women, she found time to make a deep study of Indian literature, philosophy, mythology and history. Combined with her comprehensive mind was a remarkable largeness of heart and deep insight of love. This helped her to interpret in an extraordinary manner Indian religion and thought, art and literature, custom and tradition. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/completeworksofs03advi THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SISTER NIVEDITA VOL. Ill THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SISTER NIVEDITA VOLUME 3 ^TOvaita Asfxrama (Publication Department) 5 Dehi Entally Road • Kolkata 700 014 Published by Swami Tattwavidananda Adhyaksha, Advaita Ashrama Mayavati, Champawat, Uttarakhand, Himalayas from its Publication Department, Kolkata Email: [email protected] Website: www.advaitaashrama.org © All Rights Reserved Fifth Reprint, August 2014 1M1C ISBN 81-7505-012-8 [Vol.3] ISBN 81-7505-009-8 [Set] Printed in India at Trio Process Kolkata 700 014 CONTENTS Page Editor’s Preface ... ... ... ... ix Chronological Table ... ... ... ... xiii Indian Art The Function of Art in Shaping Nationality ... 3 Indian Sculpture And Painting ... ... 21 Havell on Hindu Sculpture ... ... ... 28 Havell on Indian Painting ... ... ... 33 Introduction to the ‘Ideals of the East’ ... ... 38 Mediaeval Sinhalese ‘Art ... ... ... 44 The Exhibition of the Indian Society of Oriental Art ... 53 Art Appreciations Abanindra Nath Tagore Bharat Mata ... ... ... 57 India The Mother ... ... ... 57 Sita ... ... ... ... 60 Shah Jahan Dreaming of the Taj ... ... 61 The Passing of Shah Jahan ... ... 63 Nanda Lai Bose Sati ... ... ... ... 66 The Dance of Shiva ... ... ... 67 Kaikeyi ... ... ... 68 The Death-Bed of Dasharatha ... ... 69 Ahalya ... ... ... 72 Damayanti’s Swayamvara ... ... 72 Jagai and Madhai ... ... ... 73 Vikramaditya and Vetal ... .... ... 75 Babu Upendra Kishor Ray The Churning of the Ocean ... ... 77 vi Pace Asit Kumar Haidar The Vina ... .. ... ... 79 Sukhalata Rao Srimati, Martyr ... ... ... 80 Samarendranath Gupta Abhimanyu ... ... ... 82 Artist—U nkno wn The Coronation of Sita and Rama ... ... 83 Puvis de Chavannes Sainte Genevieve Watching Over Paris .. 85 J. F. Millet Angelus ... ... ... ... 86 Notes on Pictures % Madonna and Child ... ... ... 88 Richter Queen Louise ... ... ... 91 Jules Breton Peasant Girls ... ... ... 92 Guido Reni The Picture of Beatrice Cenci ... ... 93 Star-Pictures ... ... ... ... 97 Buddha and Yashodhara ... ... ... 127 Cradle Tales of Hinduism Preface ... ... ... ... 141 The Cycle of Snake Tales ... ... ... 145 The Story of the Doom of Parikshit ... .. 150 The Sacrifice of Janamejaya ... ... 155 The Story of Shiva, the Great God ... ... 160 The Cycle of Indian Wifehood Sati, the Perfect Wife ... ... ... 163 The Tale of Uma Haimavati ... ... 169 Savitri, the Indian Alcestis ... ... 175 Nala and Damayanti .. ... ... 184 vii Page The Cycle of the Ramayana ... ... ... 206 The City of Ayodhya ... ... ... 207 The Capture of Sita ... ... ... 216 The Conquest of Lanka ... ... ... 221 The Ordeal of Sita ... ... ... 231 The Cycle of Krishna Tire Birth of Krishna, the Indian Christ-Child ... 239 The Divine Childhood ... ... ... 244 Krishna in the Forests ... ... ... 249 The Dilemma of Brahma ... ... ... 253 Conquest of the Snake Kaliya ... ... 257 The Lifting of the Mountain ... ... 261 The Return to Mathura ... ... ... 263 Krishna Partha Sarathi, Charioteer of Arjuna ... 272 The Lament of Gandhari ... ... 282 The Doom of the Vrishnis .. ... 288 Tales of the Devotees The Lord Krishna and the Broken Pot ... 294 The Lord Krishna and the Lapwing’s Nest ... 295 The Story of Prahlada ... ... ... 296 The Story of Dhruva: A Myth of the Pole Star ... 300 Gopala and the Cowherd ... ... ... 306 A Cycle of Great Kings The Story of Shibi Rana; or, the Eagle and the Dove 312 Bharata ... ... ... ... 315 The Judgment-Seat of Vikramaditya ... ... 319 Prithvi Rai, Last of the Hindu Knights ... 326 A Cycle from the Mahabharata The Story of Bhishma and the Great War ... 334 The Ascent of Yudhishthira into Heaven ... 352 King Parikshit and the Frog Maiden ... ... 361 Religion of the Mountains ... ... ... 369 Religion and Dharma Religion and Dharma ... ... ... 377 Mukti: Freedom ... ... ... 380 The Greater Ritual ... ... ... 384 viii Page The Crown of Hinduism ... ... 386 Hinduism and Organisation ... ... 390 Co-operation ... ... ... 394 Sectarianism ... ... ... 397 The Samaj ... ... ... ... 400 The Past and the Future ... ... ... 404 Religion and National Success ... ... 406 The Spirit of Renunciation ... ... 409 The Sacred and the Secular ... ... 413 Quit Ye Like Men! ... ... ... 415 Sincerity ... ... ... 418 Facing Death ... ... ... 420 Luxury and Manhood ... ... ... 423 Strength ... ... ... ... 425 True Ambition ... ... ... 427 Character ... ... ... ... 430 Discrimination ... ... ... 432 Fitness ... ... ... ... 434 The Teacher ... ... ... ... 437 The Guru and His Disciple ... ... 441 Realisation ... ... ... ... 444 Progress ... ... ... ... 446 Work ... ... ... ... 449 Realisation Through Work ... ... 451 The Power of Faith ... ... ... 453 The Bee and the Lotus ... ... ... 457 The Life of Ideas ... ... ... 460 The Shaping of Life ... ... ... 462 National Righteousness ... ... ... 465 The Flower of Worship ... ... ... 469 Responsibility ... ... ... 473 The World-Sense in Ethics ... ... 479 Appendix ... ... ... 484 Aggressive Hinduism I The Basis ... ... ... 491 II The Task Before Us ... ... 496 III The Ideal ... ... ... 505 IV On the Way to the Ideal ... ... 509 EDITOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The first section of the Third Volume of the present edition of the Complete Works of Sister Nivedita includes her articles on Indian Art, reviews of books on Art and appre¬ ciations of a series of Indian and European paintings. The rebirth of Indian Art was one of Nivedita’s dearest dreams. She believed that “art offers us the opportunity of a great common speech, and its rebirth is essential to the upbuilding of the motherland—its re-awakening rather.” {Complete Works, Vol. Ill, p. 3). Hence her profound thoughts on Art in general and Indian Art in particular are of great importance. She is one of the foremost of art connoisseurs who inspired and encouraged our young artists to revive ancient Indian art and to develop modern Indian art. She told them: “Art is charged with a spiritual message,—in India today, the message of Nationality. But if this message is actually to be uttered, the profession of the painter must come to be regarded, not simply as a means of earning livelihood, but as one of the supreme ends of the highest kind of education.” (■Complete Works, Vol. Ill, p. 12). At the end of the section are added some notes on notable European paintings because they were chiefly written to demonstrate the true ideals of Western art to the Indian artists. The interesting article titled ‘The Star Pictures’ was pub¬ lished in three instalments in The Modern Review in 1911 and 1912. These were later included in the book Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Ananda Coomaraswamy. It includes myths embedded in the Puranas. Nivedita held the view that the Indian mind interested in astronomy spirit¬ ualized most of the mythological characters and they became the heroes of the sky. Here she selects those stories that represent the spiritualising interpretation of the stars. Buddha and Yashodhara was first published in The Modern Review in 1919. Together with ‘Shiva or Mahadeva’ it was published in book form by the Udbodhan Office in 1919 with the title Siva 6- Buddha. After these writings are published the following three works: Cradle Tales of Hinduism Religion and Dharma Aggressive Hinduism The Cradle Tales of Hinduism includes stories from the Ramavana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas. In the manner of the old-time story-teller Nivedita has presented here the never-dying tales with the charm of freshness, literary grace and beauty, as also the thrill and fascination of the narrative. The book was first published in 1907. But she had started collecting the material for the stories for the American children in 1899. To Miss MacLeod she wrote on November 16, 1899: “I mean to tell the little ones about the Christ-child, and then on to the Indian Christ-child, Dhruva, Prahlad, Gopala.” She made regular study of this literature by going to the libraries and consulting Swami Vivekananda and Jogin-Ma on this subject. We come to know from her letters that one Mr. Waterman offered to publish these stories for her. On April 20, 1900. she wrote to Mrs. Longfellow: I never did anything so difficult as these stories. Fancy! Today I have before me the task of putting on paper what I know about Buddha! It is like trying to put the rainbow under a tumbler. I have onlv✓ done five stories so far, of which only one, Prithvi Rai, satisfies Mr. W.” Ultimately the said publisher did not publish the book. On July 16, 1906, we find her writing to Mrs. Bull : “The Cradle Tales of Hinduism are nearly ready. I hope to send one copy to England by the end of July and one copy to you—to try to publish independently and simultane¬ ously in America. We have decided that
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