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Sri Sarada
Devi
The Holy Mother · 1853 – 1920
“No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own.”
Mother of all
The Universal Mother, in our own age
Of the divine incarnations of Shakti, Durga personifies protection, Sita sacrifice, Radha divine love – all manifested on an epic and glorious scale. In our era, the Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi is the divine incarnation and personification of the Universal Mother.
For, is not a mother about compassion, forbearance, forgiveness and fortitude? In the Holy Mother, there is that and far more.
There is same-sighted love for all – not just for those related by ties of blood, community, caste, or religion.
There is her intense spirituality and renunciation.
Underlying it all is her outward ordinariness and her unassuming, modest nature that kept her divine powers hidden so she appears less distant, more accessible.
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Four ways to approach the Mother
Read her story, listen to her words, reflect on her teachings and sing her praises.
Biography
Life
Her life told chapter by chapter — from the blessed hamlet of Jayrambati to the Nahabat at Dakshineswar, and her years as Mother of the Ramakrishna Order.
33 chapters→
IIConversations
Gospel
Conversations recorded by her disciples in Calcutta, Jayrambati and Banaras — her words exactly as they were spoken to those who came to her.
113 conversations→
IIIHer words, by theme
Teachings
Her sayings gathered by theme: japa and meditation, control of the mind, grace and self-effort, love and compassion.
10 themes→
IVHymns & Stotras
Devi Bhajans
Hymns to the Divine Mother sung in the Ramakrishna tradition, with lyrics in English script for chanting along.
12 hymns→
The Mother’s word for today
“Ah! How kindly Sri Ramakrishna treated me! Not even one day did he utter a word to wound my feelings.”More sayings
A life in brief
From Jayrambati to the whole world
From the Gospel
Sitting at her feet
Conversations recorded by her disciples — a new selection every day.
Speeding up of spiritual evolution
One day in the rainy season of the same year, 1911, Swami Saradananda, Yogin-Ma, Golap-Ma and several other devotees went to Kamarpukur from Jayrambati. Yogin-Ma…
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“Austerities, worship, pilgrimage, the earning of money-one should do all these in the days of youth. You see, even I had visited so many places…
Read →Spiritual practice and realization of God
Another day I had been to the Holy Mother’s place when a monk came and Prostrated before her. He said, “Mother, why does the mind…
Read →Tributes
How they saw her
“She is Sarada, Saraswati; She has come to impart knowledge. She has descended by covering up her beauty this time… She is full of the rarest wisdom.”
“Without Shakti there is no regeneration for the world… Mother has been born to revive that wonderful Shakti in India; and making her the nucleus, once more will Gargis and Maitreyis be born into the world.”
“Inside, the ocean of realization; outside, absolute calm. How ordinary and easy she appears… Through Mother’s grace attainment of liberation becomes easy.”
“To me it has always appeared that she is Sri Ramakrishna’s final word as to the ideal of Indian womanhood… the stateliness of her courtesy and her great open mind are almost as wonderful as her sainthood.”
Sacred geography
Places hallowed by her presence
Jayrambati
Her birthplace and lifelong village home. The Matri Mandir now stands where she was born, and her later house is lovingly preserved.
Kamarpukur
Sri Ramakrishna’s native village, a few miles from Jayrambati, where she first lived with the Master and later endured years of poverty.
Dakshineswar
The Kali temple on the Ganga. In the small room of the Nahabat she lived for thirteen years, serving the Master in silence.
Udbodhan, Baghbazar
The ‘Mother’s House’, built by Swami Saradananda in 1909. Her shrine and room are kept as they were.
Belur Math
Headquarters of the Ramakrishna Order on the Ganga. Her temple stands at the spot where her body was consigned to the flames in 1920.
Varanasi
The holy city where she stayed in 1912, blessing the Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service and recording some of her most memorable conversations.
Devotion
Sing to the Mother
Hymns and stotras to the Divine Mother as sung in the Ramakrishna tradition — with lyrics in English script and recordings to listen to.
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Om Sri Sarada Devyai Namah