Sister Gargi Passes away

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From Hindu Press International

 

" KOLKATA, INDIA, January 21, 2004: The eminent researcher on Swami

Vivekananda, Marie Louise Burke, has died at her residence in the San

Francisco Vedanta Society in the US, the Ramakrishna Mission said.

Burke, age 93, popularly known as Sister Gargi, died on Tuesday and was

single. Initiated into Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement by Swami

Ashokananda, founder secretary of San Francisco Vedanta Society, Sister

Gargi devoted her life to research on Swami Vivekananda's works in the

West which culminated in the nine-volume Swami Vivekananda in the West:

New Discoveries. Sister Gargi was the first recipient of the

Vivekananda Purashkar award instituted by the Ramakrishna Mission

Institute of Culture in 1984. "

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For Christmas I received two of her books: A Heart Poured Out- a

story of Swami Ashokananda and also A Disciple's Journal. I enjoyed

them both. I am so glad Sister Gargi was born.

 

Thank you Sirster Gargi,

charles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ramakrishna , " Vivekananda Centre "

<vivekananda@b...> wrote:

> From Hindu Press International

>

> " KOLKATA, INDIA, January 21, 2004: The eminent researcher on Swami

> Vivekananda, Marie Louise Burke, has died at her residence in the

San

> Francisco Vedanta Society in the US, the Ramakrishna Mission said.

> Burke, age 93, popularly known as Sister Gargi, died on Tuesday and

was

> single. Initiated into Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement by Swami

> Ashokananda, founder secretary of San Francisco Vedanta Society,

Sister

> Gargi devoted her life to research on Swami Vivekananda's works in

the

> West which culminated in the nine-volume Swami Vivekananda in the

West:

> New Discoveries. Sister Gargi was the first recipient of the

> Vivekananda Purashkar award instituted by the Ramakrishna Mission

> Institute of Culture in 1984. "