Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi
A Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
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This is an account of Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi, also known as Gauri Ma. She was the only woman monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and a close companion of Sri Sri Sarada Devi. At Sri Ramakrishna’s behest, she dedicated her life, strengthened and purified by intense austerities, to the service of women. She founded an ashram for women in 1895, the Sri Saradeshwari Ashram with headquarters in Calcutta. Gauri Ma’s life was the inspiration that lead to the establishment of Mothers Trust/Mothers Place, an ashram in Michigan.
About the Author
Swami Shivatatvananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna order first published this short biography in the journal Jivan Vikas, a publication of the Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Nagpur, India. Swami Bhashyananda, head of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago for almost thirty years, read and translated this story to the devotees in the late seventies. It was his wish that the book should be published. It was his mission to bring balance to the west with the knowledge of the holy twin monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, like a bird with two wings: Swami Vivekananda and Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi, the only woman monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.