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Brahmajna Ma did not want any biography her life to be written or her teachings propagated. However we are lucky that detailed notes were taken by Her devotees during Her discourses and seances. These notes have led to the publication of the memoirs about Her Life and Teachings after Her passing. Two primary memoirs published in English are:

a. "The Life and Teachings of Brahmajna Ma", published by Shri Dhirendranath Sen, which comprises the memories of Swami Prabudhananda, and

b. "Brief Life Story and Teachings of Shri Shri Brahmamoyee Ma", by Swami Omkarananda.

These are the primary sources for the information provided here. Links to scanned copies of these books and other booklets are provided in this section.

Front cover of 2024 reprint

Extract from Publisher's Preface of the book "Life and Teaching of Brahmagna Ma"

Author - Swami Prabuddhananda… edited by Sadhu Arunachala ..... published by Shri Dhirendranath Sen

"India in 1913 was full of prejudice and bigotry. During the summer vacation of that year I met Mother in my brother's house at Sachar - Dist. Tippera, and was amazed at Her discourses - fearless, free from prejudice and full of reason. That night the stages of Her Self-realisation, viz Concentraction and Brahmacharya and Her talks and felt none but a Person who passed through these stages could relate them in any details in the simplest Bengali without any reference to any religious book. I was convinced that She possessed the highest Power and would give us anything if She desired. She asserted that Brahma is the only Reality and all else is an illusion. She was indifferent and would not listen to worldly talks. Some young men with Western education were attracted to Mother at the time and received Her blessings and were permitted to attend Her and went with Her to different places and at last to Her native village where She remained till the middle of 1928. During this period, She stayed in Calcutta on several occasions and at times She came and lived with us in our hostel, and She sometimes lived in the house of my relations or rented houses and all along the favourite devotees were all in Her Service. The Divine Grace of Mother has descended like sun shine freely and equally on each and every devotee; in the degree one has faith, sincerity and surrender and in that degree he feels the Grace of Mother and is elevated in mind."

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Scanned covers of Swami Prabuddhananda's original handwritten memoirs as kept in the library of the Ramana Maharishi's Ashram where the memoirs were written.

Swami Omkarananda was born as Santi Kumar Bandyopadhyay in 1921 in Narayangunj in the district of Dhaka (now in Bangladesh). As a child he often wondered why Goddess Kali did not appear before him like his own mother and as a boy, he saw visions of becoming a 'sadhu’ and traveling to many holy places in search of God. He left home at the age of fourteen, wearing the saffron cloth that he had worn during his sacred 'thread' ceremony, in his quest of ‘an unknown sovereign of an unknown kingdom.'

During the next few years young Santi traveled far and wide, meeting many sadhus and ascetics and gaining spiritual enlightenment, while striving on his own through austere practices and intense meditation to see through the delusion of transient worldly objects and reach the threshold of perpetual truth. Ever drawn to a mother's image, he instantly identified Brahmamoyee Ma as his ‘guru' (preceptor) after hearing of her and seeing her photograph; how the Divine Mother eventually appeared in his dreams in response to his fervent prayers to deliver his 'mantra’, is a miracle, which is recounted in a brief introduction in the last chapter of this book....

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