The summer of 1898 stands out in my memory as a series of pictures…What scenes were these through which we journeyed from the beginning of May until the end of October (at times with the Swami, at times with some of his gurubhais in the North-west Provinces and the North of India). It had been taken for granted from the first, that at the earliest opportunity I would open a girls’ school in Calcutta. It was to carry out this plan, then, that I arrived in Calcutta alone, in the beginning of November (1898). (Nivedita returned to Kolkata on 1 November 1898 – see SNRV, Pravrajika Atmaprana, 1st edition, 1961, p. 62.)
(REMINISCENCES OF Sri Sarada Devi by Monastics, Devotees, and others -
Compiled and Edited in Bengali by SWAMI PURNATMANANDA - Translated by MALOTI SEN GUPTA : P 108)
