the whole life. But it is lacking in sense of discrimination and fails to distinguish between the essential and the non-essential -as seen from a free use of facts gathered even from doubtful authorities.
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Sri Sri Mayer ]ivankatha: Published in the Bengali weekly Desh, Vol. V, (1938), Calcutta.
This anonymous serial appeared in about fifteen issues of the Weekly during the year 1938. Though the writer's name is not published, he seems to have had access to many first-rate authorities and cites the evidence of the Holy Mother's intimate companions like Yogin-Ma and others. The writer seems also to have moved closely with the Holy Mother. Though it is not a complete or systematic biography, it sheds much light on periods of her life, especially on her life at Kamarpukur after Sri Ramakrishna's Mahasamadhi, of which little was known before.
Books in English:
There were no original or comprehensive writings in English on the Holy Mother when this book was first published in the year 1940.
The Life of Sri Ramakrishna, published by the Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta, gives the substance of Swami Saradananda's account contained in the
Lilaprasanga. In Sister Nivedita's
The Master as I saw Him and in Sister Devamata's
Sri Ramakrishna and His Disciples and Days in an Indian Monastery, one gets glimpses of the Holy Mothers's personality as it appeared to the two Western Sisters in their close association with her.