1. Josephine MacLeod was an American friend and devotee of Swami Vivekananda.
23 Facts About Josephine MacLeod
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Josephine MacLeod had a strong attachment to India and was an active participant in the Ramakrishna Vivekananda movement.
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Josephine MacLeod was given the nicknames "Tantine" and "Jo Jo" by Vivekananda.
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Josephine MacLeod considered Swami Vivekananda to be her friend and helped him with his finances.
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Josephine MacLeod was instrumental in spreading Vivekananda's message on Vedanta in the West.
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Josephine MacLeod made many contributions to the initial and the later phases of the development of the order of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.
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Josephine MacLeod was a contributor to many causes espoused by Sister Nivedita, the most famous disciple of Vivekananda, including that of contributing financially towards the development of the Indian National Movement especially in Bengal and elsewhere in India.
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Two of their daughters, Betty and Josephine MacLeod, became disciples of Swami Vivekananda.
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Josephine MacLeod was known by several other nicknames, including Joe, Jo-Jo, Yum and Tantine.
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Josephine MacLeod's lecture impressed her, and she observed at the end of the lecture that the way he presented truth was something unique.
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Josephine MacLeod heard his lectures several times over the next seven years.
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Josephine MacLeod was deeply impressed and thereby began to cultivate a relationship which would be long lasting and significant for her.
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Josephine MacLeod became a member of the Vedanta Society established by Vivekananda and pursued the study and practice of Vedanta.
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Josephine MacLeod considered the day she met Vivekananda for the first time, 29 January 1895, to be her "spiritual birthday".
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Josephine MacLeod did not like anyone addressing her as Vivekananda's disciple and would immediately retort that she was his friend.
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Josephine MacLeod had asked Swmi Vivekananda if she would accompany him to India.
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Josephine MacLeod took every possible care of the Swami when he arrived in New York for the second time in 1899 while he stayed in Ridgely Manor or elsewhere in America.
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Josephine MacLeod travelled to Japan and introduced Kakuso Okakura, the painter and artist and Prince Oda, a Buddhist Abbot, to Vivekananda.
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Josephine MacLeod provided the initial funding of $800 for the establishment of the Udbodhan press, which was used to publish the Udbodhan Patrika, a monthly Bengali magazine of the Ramakrishna Order.
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Josephine MacLeod persuaded Swami Nityatmananda, a close associate of Mahendranath Gupta or M, the author of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, to publish the viewpoints of M on Swami Vivekananda, which later appeared in the fifth volume of the Ramakrishna Kathamrita, the original Bengali version of the Gospel, as an appendix.
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Josephine MacLeod was in touch with many contemporary intellectuals, including George Bernard Shaw and Romain Rolland.
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Josephine MacLeod helped extensively in spreading the message of Vedanta and Swami Vivekananda's teachings in particular in various European languages including German.
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Josephine MacLeod helped in conducting the first centenary celebration of the birth of Sri Ramakrishna in Calcutta in 1937.