Preface
to the
FIRST EDITION
ALTHOUGH IT IS now nearly two decades since the passing away of Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother, no comprehensive work on her life and teachings has appeared in English. The present work, comprising her biography and conversations seeks to remedy this want and present in one volume everything about the Holy Mother - her life as well as her teachings.
The first part of the book, entitled The Life of the Holy Mother, is a new writing and not a translation, although it incorporates in itself all relevant biographical material from existing literature in, Bengali, besides information gathered from such of the Holy Mother's disciples as had lived closely with her and could therefore speak with authority on the various aspects of her life and character. Yogin-Ma and Golap-Ma, the best authorities on her early life are now no more, and all that could be done for gathering material about this part of her life was to depend on existing literature and on