It gives us immense pleasure on presenting before our readers the tenth volume of M., the Apostle & the Evangelist. Like his Master Sri Ramakrishna, M. tells us (Chapter 14) straight to the point, "First try to have His darshan somehow. After it, you may do what you like… The hero who says that I see nothing but the eye of the fish can only shoot the target." He again echoes his Master when he says (in Chapter 20), "The musical notation has to be brought to the fingers. What is the use of merely speaking it? …Do something."

Srimati Ishwar Devi Gupta discovered these invaluable pearls in 1958 in the Bengali Sri Ma Darshan. Thereafter, she started the Herculean task of translating them into Hindi as a prayerful offering for her own sake and for the Hindi knowing brothers and sisters. Subsequently, these were translated into English by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta which are now appearing as these volumes.

Sri Ma Trust offers its sincere gratitude to all those bhaktas and friends who are helping in any way in financing, production, publication and distribution of the volumes. Special mention must be made of Dr. Kamal Gupta, Sangeeta Kapoor, Vinay Mehta and Nitin Nanda. May our readers, friends and associates attain supreme bliss and peace ­ this is our heartfelt prayer at the feet of the Lord.

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Sunday, 11th of June, 2000.