Lizelle Reymond spent many years of her life in the Himalayas, most in Almora, studying and working with Shri. Anirvan. Four books describing her life and the teaching she received there have been published: My life with a Brahmin family, 1958. To Live Within, 1971, Shakti, 1974 and Letters from a Baul, 1983. She travelled all over India and spent several years writing this biography of Nivedita, which was first published in 1953. Between 1935 and 1953 she translated a number of sacred Indian texts and these were published in France. Now Lizelled Reymond lives in Geneva, Switzerland.