Swami Vijnanananda, before he took orders, was known by the name of Hariprasanna Chatto-padhyaya. He was bom on October 28, 1868, in a respectable family of Belgharia, which is within a couple…

At the time when Sri Ramakrishna was attracting devotees—old and young—to the temple-garden at Dakshineswar, a young man in his teens, belonging to a neighbouring family, came to the garden of Rani Rasmani…

Saradamani Devi—the nun-wife of Sri Ramakrishna and familiarly known as the Holy Mother—was born in 1853 at a village called Jayrambati not very far from Kamarpukur, the birth-place of Sri Ramakrishna. Though Sri…