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Mary LePage
Mary Hebard LePage (born 1879), also known as "Sister Shivani", was an American disciple of Abhedananda, who wrote an account of his visit to America. Biography Lepage was initiated by Abhedananda in December 1908, at the Berkshire Ashram, West Cornwall, Connecticut, where she lived for four months. She later married fellow disciple Thomas LePage (Haridas), with whom she had five children. She worked as a proofreader at Princeton University Press, and then in 1916, the LePage family moved to Los Angeles, where she attended Abhedananda's public presentations in 1917. In 1920, the family moved to Tujunga, CA, Tujunga, where Abhedananda visited them twice before leaving America in 1921. In 1923, the LePages established a home at a property at Palmdale, California, which they named "Abhedananda Acres". There, LePage's sons printed on a hand press hymns written by Abhedananda, which were later regularly sung at Ramakrishna Mission, Ramakrishna Centres around the world. LePage began wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhedananda
Swami Abhedananda (2 October 1866 – 8 September 1939), born Kaliprasad Chandra, was a direct disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of Ramakrishna Vedanta Math. Swami Vivekananda sent him to the West to head the Vedanta Society of New York in 1897, and spread the message of Vedanta, a theme on which he authored several books through his life, and subsequently founded the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Darjeeling. Early life and education He was born in north Calcutta on 2 October 1866 and was named Kaliprasad Chandra.Biography '''' Official website. His father was Rasiklal Chandra and his mother was Nayantara Devi. In 1884, at the age of 18, while studyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
