The Master tied his disciples with a cord of love. Sometimes they would share their sweet memories with each other. Many years later (15 August 1915) Swami Premananda wrote to Swami Abhedananda who …
Inner Realization Gives Greater Conviction
Once a Devotee asked Swami Saradananda the real meaning of God vision, or realization: Is it seeing something with the physical eyes externally or feeling something inside our inner self? He replied: …
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“Is She Just Your Mother?”
Saradananda called himself the Mother’s “doorkeeper,” and he felt proud of the position. From his small room at the left of the entrance to the Mother’s house in Calcutta he kept an eye on the …
Unconditional Love
One night Purna was studying alone in his room when he suddenly noticed M. standing outside near his window. He immediately came out and M. whispered to him: “The Master is waiting for you at the …
Sanatana Goswami and Philosopher’s Stone
This story is about Sanatan Goswami, a close disciple of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who lived in Vrindavan. He was known for his intense spiritual practice, spending his days and nights chanting the …
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Lessons from Swami Madhavananda
Ramakrishna bhava Ganga It was 1935. Grand preparations were going on for Sri Ramakrishna’s Centenary Celebration. One day I went to visit the ‘Holy Mother’s house’, the Udbodhan, in Calcutta. …