Publisher’s Note

Another offering of the flower of this volume eight in the garland of M., the Apostle & the Evangelist series is ready for Sri Thakur, who came to this earth for a very special purpose. Says M. in Chapter 15 of this book, "He (Sri Ramakrishna) came only to place the highest ideal before us. He did it so quickly and only to a few, and departed. The way to get rid of sorrow and misfortune is either to see God or gain the knowledge of the Self. Man is the child of the ever-blissful Mother. Once you know this, all sorrows vanish. There are not many sorrows to which the body is prone but the pain of the cycle of birth and death never ends. It was to show the path – how to get rid of this great pain – that he came. He showed it and left . . . the main purpose for which Thakur came was to dispel the everlasting pain and to substitute it with peace and joy. So he pushed the bhaktas out of their worldliness, and showing them his real nature, made teachers of them, made heroes of them and then departed in the twinkling of an eye. These persons have realised that God comes first and the world next."