Books - Sri Sarada Devi
(The Holy Mother)
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The Gospel of The Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
This book is the full translation of the Bengali work 'Sri Sri Mayer Katha'. Most of the reminiscences and conversations of the Holy Mother, except what appears in the great work of Swami Saradeshananda entitled 'The Mother as I saw her', are now available in this single volume. Through the impressions and recollections of a large number of men and women of various stations in life, who came into contact with The Holy Mother who chose to remain outside public notice behind the Purdah and in the obscurity of the village of Jayrambati, her greatness emerges in the bright colours of Universal Motherhood, never before witnessed in so striking a manner in any personality we know of. Therefore, while the contents of this book are of special importance to the followers of Sri Ramakrishna, they can make an appeal to all who appreciate the great human value of motherliness.

Here are some sayings from The Holy Mother.

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Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
-- by the late Swami Gambhirananda, the former President of the Order.
The learned author, whose scholarly translations of Sankara's commentary on the Upanishads has been widely received, has left not a stone unturned to make the Life exhaustive and interesting by incorporating as many facts and incidents of the Mother's life as could be gleaned from all reliable sources, oral and documentary. The main narrative is profusely interspersed with conversations of the Mother and, consequently, the book ably fills the place of an authentic volume on the Life of the Holy Mother. pp. 540. We can only sum up the importance of this book in the immortal words of Swami Vivekananda, explaining the significance of Mother's life:
"Without Shakti (Power) there is no regeneration for the world. Mother was born to revive that wonderful Shakti in India: and making her the nucleus, once more will Gargis and Maitreyis be born into the world."
Read from two versions of Mother's life: Shorter, Longer.
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The Mother As I Saw Her
Authored by Swami Saradeshananda (Gopesh Maharaj), this book was translated into English by Prof. J. N. Dey. It is a book of reminiscences on Sri Sarada Devi, by one who had occasion to hear and see much of what he has recorded. Though there are many books now on the Holy Mother, both in English and in Indian languages, this small bunch of reminiscences has the virtue of revealing the very core of the unique personality of the Mother, and can therefore claim to be one of the original works of first rate authority and importance on her.
You can buy these books at one of a set of
Vedanta Bookstores Online.
You can get a good sampling of the pages at
The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture.