Voice of Vivekananda
By VivekaVani
Once, not long after Ramakrishna’s death, Holy Mother was travelling to Jayrambati from Kamarpukur. Shivaram, the Master’s nephew, was then a young boy. He was travelling with the Mother and carrying …
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Sri Ramakrishna’s centenary celebration was scheduled for February 1936. Swami Akhandananda did not send any message despite several reminders by the Belur Math authorities. They reminded him that the …
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Lavanya Chakrabarty recorded in his reminiscences: In 1912 at Lakshmi Nivas in Varanasi I met a woman with a veil near the main door. Looking at her face, I asked: “Are you the Mother?” “Yes, my …
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Blessings of power Swami Akhandanandaji, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and a spiritual dynamo, was in charge of our ashrama in Sargachhi. When young Swami Ranganathanandaji was in-charge of …
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It was the spring of 1920. Holy Mother was leaving Jayrambati for Calcutta, so Shivaram came from Kamarpukur to see her. He arrived at Jayrambati around noon and informed the Mother that he would stay …
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Sarala (later Bharatiprana) recalled: “One day at Jayrambati, vexed with her relatives, the Mother said to them angrily: ‘Do not torture me too much. If He who dwells inside this body hisses but once, …