Sri Sarada Devi: The Holy Mother—Life and Teachings

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Catalogue identifier: kali-0138
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KALI-0138; sarada_life_teachings_tapasyananda
Author or attribution: Swami Tapasyananda
Record type: Book
Language: English
Date / edition: unknown (inspected digital edition)
Source / repository: Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai
Access: Open access
Subjects: Kali Library Research Catalogue; Priests, Priestesses, Saints, and Religious Lineages; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion

Description and curator notes

Tapasyananda’s compact work combines a life of Sarada Devi, an interpretation of divine motherhood and a presentation of her teachings. It traces her rural upbringing, relationship with Ramakrishna and responsibilities after his death. Kali-specific material includes the Phalaharini-Kali Puja setting of Ramakrishna’s worship of Sarada and a reported vision connecting the goddess’s body with Ramakrishna’s illness. These accounts reveal the way the Ramakrishna tradition interprets embodied holiness and motherhood through Shakta imagery. The work is useful alongside the multi-contributor Gospel of the Holy Mother because it organizes events and teachings into an explicit theological narrative. Its claims about divine identity should be attributed to this devotional tradition, and Sarada’s personal biography should not be merged uncritically with lists of Kali’s scriptural epithets.

KALI-0138 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
Access and reliability assessments below are supplied by the curator's 4–5 November 2026 research release, not a new independent verification.

Author / attribution: Swami Tapasyananda
Publication: Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai · unknown (inspected digital edition)
Official digital edition; exact print publication year not supplied in inspected text.
Format / language: Historical book / primary devotional or interpretive source · English
Composition / textual history: Modern work; exact original composition date not established in the inspected digital edition.
Identifier: sarada_life_teachings_tapasyananda
Kali relevance: Explicit Phalaharini-Kali worship and Mother Kali vision within a theological life of Sarada Devi.
Context: Modern Ramakrishna movement; distinguish the goddess Kali from Kali used as a personal name and from Kali Yuga.
Subjects: Priests, Priestesses, Saints, and Religious Lineages; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion
Evidence / reliability: Primary devotional record or biography issued by the Ramakrishna Order; valuable for that tradition’s self-understanding. Reported visions and theological identifications are attributed religious testimony, not independently established historical events.
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-04. Free reading is offered by the Ramakrishna Order’s official publications platform; the inspected complete HTML copy is hosted by a monastic faculty member at RKMVERI, a university run by Ramakrishna Mission. Modern translation, editorial and publication… See full rights note in the master data.

Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://cs.rkmvu.ac.in/~tamal/EssentialBooks/sri-sarada-devi-life-and-teachings/sri-sarada-devi-life-and-teachings.html
Source record: https://englishbooks.rkmm.org/s/tsd/m/sri-sarada-devi-life-and-teachings

Source access

Read or locate the original source at Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai

Rights and reading conditions

Complete text checked 2026-11-04. Free reading is offered by the Ramakrishna Order’s official publications platform; the inspected complete HTML copy is hosted by a monastic faculty member at RKMVERI, a university run by Ramakrishna Mission. Modern translation, editorial and publication… See full rights note in the master data. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.

Citation

Swami Tapasyananda. Sri Sarada Devi: The Holy Mother—Life and Teachings. Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai · unknown (inspected digital edition).

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