The Story Of An Epoch Swami Virajananda And His Times

The spiritual career of the sixth president of the Ramakrishna Order, a monk initiated by the Holy Mother and given the ochre robe by Swami Vivekananda, throws a flood of light on the formative period of the Ramakrishna Movement.

This handy book is a bouquet of the condensed life stories and teachings of 14 saints and mystics drawn from different ages, regions and faiths. They are the true citizens of the world, physical and spiritual. Though they may speak in different tongues they elucidate only the same truth. Their lives beautifully illustrate the dictum ‘Truth is one, though the sages speak of it variously.’ The selection of immortals in the book is only a sample of the innumerable of those who have lived down the centuries and the articles are introductory in nature. Many of the articles have been authored by the monks of the Ramakrishna Order, including one by Swami Vivekananda. These articles first were published in the 1989 annual issue of The Vedanta Kesari, a month of the Ramakrishna Math. The articles in the book give much-needed inspiration to all earnest aspirants and will inspire readers all over the world to take up more detailed studies of these great lives.

This is the biography of Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth Sevier, one of the foremost Western disciples of Swami Vivekananda. Obeying the command of her guru, she left her own home in England, and, along with her husband, devoted her life to establish and nurture the Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati in the lofty heights of Himalayas, dedicated to the practice of Advaita Vedanta. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, this groundbreaking work is the first biography of Mrs. Sevier, and underscores the struggles, achievements, and convictions of this great woman, who was truly the 'Mother of Mayavati'.