The Gospel of the Holy Mother
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0139
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0139; sarada_gospel_holy_mother
- Author or attribution
- Collected reminiscences and conversations of Sri Sarada Devi; English translator not identified in inspected cover metadata
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- unknown (inspected English digital edition)
- Source / repository
- Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Priests, Priestesses, Saints, and Religious Lineages
Description and curator notes
This collection translates Sri Sri Mayer Katha, bringing together accounts of Sarada Devi’s conversations and actions from numerous named devotees. The contributors’ sections preserve differing occasions and voices, including recollections by Sarayubala Devi, Swami Arupananda, Yogin-Ma and Swami Ishananda. For a Kali library, the work contributes first-person devotional testimony about Dakshineswar, offerings made to the image of Kali, the relation of the Mother to Ramakrishna, initiation and the practical meaning of surrender. An early recollection describes a flower garland Sarada prepared for Kali and Ramakrishna’s response to the adorned image. The final contributor recounts a story of a fish seeking protection at Ramakrishna’s feet. The book’s wider subjects include household difficulties, compassion, religious discipline and the spiritual authority of a woman regarded by disciples as Holy Mother. It should be indexed under Sarada Devi and modern Mother worship, while retaining the distinction between historical persons, devotional identifications and the goddess’s scriptural names.
KALI-0139 — 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: Collected reminiscences and conversations of Sri Sarada Devi; English translator not identified in inspected cover metadata
Publication: Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai · unknown (inspected English digital edition)
English translation of Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha; date and translator not confidently recoverable from inspected digital metadata.
Format / language: Historical book / primary devotional or interpretive source · English; original: Bengali
Composition / textual history: Modern work; exact original composition date not established in the inspected digital edition.
Identifier: sarada_gospel_holy_mother
Kali relevance: Sarada Devi’s direct devotional setting and recollections about Kali, Dakshineswar, divine motherhood and worship.
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
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/the-gospel-of-the-holy-mother/the-gospel-of-the-holy-mother.html
Source record: https://englishbooks.rkmm.org/s/tsd/m/the-gospel-of-the-holy-mother/
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
Collected reminiscences and conversations of Sri Sarada Devi; English translator not identified in inspected cover metadata. The Gospel of the Holy Mother. Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai · unknown (inspected English digital edition).
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