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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Mary Hebard LePage''' (born 1879),<ref name="Stavig"/> also known as "Sister Shivani", was an American disciple of [[Abhedananda]],<ref name="Levinsky">{{cite book |last1=Levinsky |first1=Sara Ann |title=A Bridge of Dreams: The Story of Paramananda, a Modern Mystic, and His Ideal of All-conquering Love |date=1984 |publisher=Steiner Books |isbn=9780892810635 |pages=96, 98–100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXEQCnvzK5AC&pg=PA98&dq=%22Mary+lePage%22#q=%22Sister%20Shivani%22 |accessdate=15 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Jackson">{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Carl T. |title=Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States |date=1994 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253113887 |page=174 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgOUdndOV8oC&pg=PA174&dq=%22Mary+lePage%22#q=%22Mary%20lePage%22 |accessdate=15 February 2019}}</ref> who wrote an account of his visit to America.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Lepage was initiated by Abhedananda in December 1908, at the Berkshire Ashram, [[West Cornwall, Connecticut]],<ref name="Stavig">{{cite book |last1=Stavig |first1=Gopal |title=Western Admirers of Ramakrishna and His Disciples |date=2010 |publisher=Advaita Ashrama |isbn=9788175053342 |pages=757, 760, 769, 771, 777–778 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suKdBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA771&dq=%22Mary+lePage%22#q=%22Sister%20Shivani%22 |accessdate=15 February 2019}}</ref> where she lived for four months.<ref name="Veysey">{{cite book |last1=Veysey |first1=Laurence R. |title=The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth Century America |date=1978 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226854588 |pages=264–270 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RZy-l3nHfoC&pg=PA489&lpg=PA489&dq=%22Sister+Shivani%22+Lepage#q=%22Sister%20Shivani%22%20Lepage |accessdate=19 February 2019}}</ref> She later married fellow disciple Thomas LePage (Haridas), with whom she had five children.<ref name="Veysey"/> She worked as a proofreader at [[Princeton University Press]],<ref name="Veysey"/> and then in 1916, the LePage family moved to [[Los Angeles]],<ref name="Stavig"/><ref name="Veysey"/> where she attended Abhedananda's public presentations in 1917.<ref name="Stavig"/> In 1920, the family moved to [[Tujunga, CA|Tujunga]],<ref name="Stavig"/> where Abhedananda visited them twice before leaving America in 1921.<ref name="Stavig"/> In 1923, the LePages established a home at a property at [[Palmdale, California]], which they named "Abhedananda Acres".<ref name="Stavig"/> There, LePage's sons printed on a hand press hymns written by Abhedananda,<ref name="Stavig"/> which were later regularly sung at [[Ramakrishna Mission|Ramakrishna]] Centres around the world.<ref name="Stavig"/> <br><br />
LePage began writing a book about Abhedananda at "Abhedananda Acres"; her first draft, and years of records, were burned in a house fire there in 1943.<ref name="Stavig"/> She subsequently rewrote it "largely from memory and inspiration",<ref name="Stavig"/> and it was published in 1947 as ''An Apostle of Monism''.<ref name="Stavig"/><ref name="Levinsky"/><ref name="Jackson"/><ref name="Mukherjee">{{cite book |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Jayasree |title=The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Movement Impact on Indian Society and Politics (1893-1922): With Special Reference to Bengal |date=1997 |publisher=Firma KLM |isbn=9788171020577 |pages=120–121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=85jXAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+Ramakrishna-Vivekananda+Movement+Impact+on+Indian+Society+and+Politics%22&q=LePage |accessdate=19 February 2019}}</ref> It was republished, in 1951 and later editions, as ''Swami Abhedananda in America''. It has been described by one writer as "an intimate and firsthand account of Abhedananda's eventful stay in the West by one of his most ardent disciples",<ref name="Stavig"/> and by another as "partisan, defending the swami at every point, while dismissing his opponents."<ref name="Jackson"/><br />
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== Works ==<br />
*''An Apostle of Monism: an authentic account of the activities of Swami Abhedananda in America'' {{OCLC|570235084|22653584|1075688749}}<br />
*''Swami Abhedananda in America'' {{OCLC|969682012|11311204}}<br />
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