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M.,the Apostle and the Evangelist

A continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

by Swami Nityatmananda

Table of Contents (Volumes 1 to 16)

Volume I

(First edition published in English: Sri Ramakrishna Birthday, 1967)
(Second edition published in English: Thakur’s Birthday, 1972)

  • Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (Nag Panchami, 1971)
  • Introduction – Nityatmananda (Buddha Purnima, 1953)
  • A biographical life sketch of Acharya M. – The author (April 11, 1960)
  1. M. at Mihijam
  2. Realisation of God – the aim: Unselfish work – the means
  3. Material knowledge – a step to the knowledge of Brahman
  4. The Indian View: everything good to be surrendered to God
  5. God first, everything else afterwards – ‘Hold on to Me’
  6. The need of variety in Leela
  7. Thakur, the embodiment of Truth held, no more fear
  8. Who is the Hero? – He, who has conquered his senses
  9. Woman: Image of the Mother
  10. Great need of Sadachar
  11. Three mantras of Thakur
  12. The chatak does not drink any other water
  13. Personal effort and Grace are one and the same.
  14. From dualism to Monism
  15. As long as fuel, so long fire
  16. The happy festival of Rama-navami and M.
  17. Speciality of Thakur, What? – Harmony of religions
  18. All will attain samadhi
  19. God takes charge of surrendering bhaktas as of a crippled son
  20. Rising youth, the best time for worshipping God
  21. Not mercy to jiva but service to Shiva in him
  22. The poet and the philosopher have the same destination
  23. Ignorance of God, the greatest sorrow
  24. Max Muller and Sri Ramakrishna, six shlokas of the Gita
  25. Sopenhauer and Religion
  26. Immortality is rare but not impossible
  27. Supplement: Memorable moments with Sri Mahendranath Gupta – Swami Deshikananda

 

Volume II

(First edition published in English: January, 1971)

  • Publisher’s Note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (Birth-Day of the Holy Mother, 1970)
  • Introduction – Swami Nityatmananda (Akshay Tritiya, 1962)
  1. M. in Calcutta
  2. The avatara comes to minimise bhakta’s work
  3. Simple life, aid to spiritual life
  4. Sri Ramakrishna, the Absolute Brahman as God
  5. God-realisation, the aim – living like the house-maid, the means
  6. Thakur’s words, all Veda-mantras
  7. The `unknown and unknowable’ of Kant – visible to Ramakrishna
  8. Money makes man half-liberated
  9. From this very mud blooms forth the lotus
  10. If He wills, He can reverse everything – the fruit of Karma
  11. Charity of Jnana, Bhakti, Prema, the best charity
  12. The basic word – to live in the world in complete surrender
  13. He speaks through this very mouth
  14. The means : company and service of sadhus and prayer
  15. Keshab Sen recognised Thakur
  16. Which binds also frees, by changing the course
  17. `Now You Yourself say it to me’ – the jeweller recognises the jewel
  18. Rama, Rama, Sri Rama, Jai Jai Rama
  19. Alexander, Napoleon and Christ
  20. Math, the hospital for the disease of ignorance
  21. India rising, the world will rise
  22. See God in one’s own body, family and society
  23. The devotee – a soldier in the battle-field
  24. Sri Ramakrishna’s catholic words – the holy formula for world-unity
  25. Appendix – A glimpse of `M., the Apostle and the Evangelist’ series

Volume III

(First edition published in English: 28th of May, 1977)

  • Author’s preface – Swami Nityatmananda (May 15, 1965)
  1. Jnani, My ownself
  2. Ramakrishna path, simple and natural
  3. Swami Vivekananda in the religious life of the world-renowned songstress Mme. Calve
  4. M.’s organising the spiritual life of Bhaktas
  5. When will mukti be? – when the ‘I’ is dead
  6. Story of God-realisation, the History of India
  7. Time not yet to understand Swamiji
  8. The greatest message: renouncing all, call on God
  9. The ideal householder devotee and the ideal sannyasi
  10. M., without body consciousness
  11. Durga-puja festival in Belur Math and M. in picnic in Dakshineswar Temple
  12. Not only see God but also talk to Him
  13. M. in the Gadadhar Ashrama on the Raspurnima day
  14. M. with the bhaktas, Sri Ramakrishna & Girish, the Holy Mother & Amjad, Christ & Mary Magdalene
  15. M. in the Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
  16. Man’s real nature: I, the son of a King. Satchidananda
  17. M., absorbed in meditation

Volume IV

(First edition published in English: Janam Dvitiya, 4 March 1984)

  • Sri Ma Trust, A brief introduction – Secretary
  • The founder’s prayer – Swami Nityatmananda (December 20, 1967)
  • The author’s blessings – Swami Nityatmananda (Navarati, 1965)
  • The Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta
  • The author’s preface
  1. Complete surrender to God – First hint of Godliness
  2. Hold the calf, the cow will come itself
  3. Those who have not fallen into hardship are mere babies
  4. M. at Dakshineswar on Dol-yatra day
  5. Sri Ramakrishna, the embodiment of the Gita
  6. Math, the Bengal Club of bhaktas
  7. ‘I come down from Age to Age’
  8. Swami Vivekananda in the eyes of the Fox sisters of America
  9. No sentiency and insentiency in Ramakrishna’s body
  10. The Kathamrita in pictures
  11. Tramcar trolley and Sri Ramakrishna
  12. Brahma-jnana when the mind is exterminated
  13. Faith brings half-liberation in life
  14. Samadhi, the normal state of man
  15. Divine conduct
  16. No anxiety when the real teacher is found

 

Volume V

(First edition published in English: The Ganga Dashahara, 29 May 1985 – 92nd birth day of Rev. Swami Nityatmanandaji Maharaj)

  • Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta
  • Introduction by the author (Sri Shankar Jayanti, 1968)
  1. Different natures, different paths
  2. Meditate on Me and inherit my wealth
  3. M. at the Gadadhar Ashrama
  4. Bound within the five elements Brahman wails
  5. M.’s genius in the field of education
  6. Mental renunciation and complete renunciation
  7. M. with a Parsi devotee in Dakshineswar
  8. M. with Dr. Hummel of America – I
  9. M. with Dr. Hummel of America – II
  10. Message of India to the West
  11. M., an Upanishadic Rishi – I
  12. M., an Upanishadic Rishi – II
  13. Quinine in Banana
  14. Christ in deep Samadhi
  15. Upanishad, Gita and Bible
  16. Weeping yearningly, the panacea in the age of Kali
  17. M. the honeybee – Church, Gurudwara and Ashrama
  18. Work, not the end but the means
  19. Playing with fire

Volume VI

(First edition published in English: 29 September 1990, Sri Durga Puja)

  • Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (September 29, 1990)
  • The author’s preface (The Birth Anniversary of the Holy Mother, 1968)
  1. The unperturbed M.
  2. Mechanical puppets we all are!
  3. The son will return home
  4. Pain versus the ideal
  5. Sri Ramakrishna, the full manifestation of the Avatara
  6. Dakshineswar, the most sacred place of pilgrimage
  7. At the feet of Bhavatarini
  8. ‘Without alloy no gold ornaments can be made’
  9. ‘Heard with my own ears and seen with my own eyes’
  10. ‘You have come to eat mangoes, eat them’
  11. Oh, you are perhaps jewellers!
  12. Holy Mother – the living proof
  13. Wound by a sword – scratch by a nail-cutter
  14. Elephant-pearl in the lion’s den
  15. M. in the joy of worship
  16. Brahman reveals himself in the Avatara
  17. Narendra, a thousand-petalled lotus
  18. Sri Ramakrishna, personification of the eternal religion
  19. You have got it all wrong, oh Rama!
  20. The magician has a solution to all problems
  21. We have only to hatch eggs
  22. ‘I was born in the clan of the Buddha’
  23. A living commentary

Volume VII

(First edition published in English: Sunday, May 30, 1993; Sri Ganga Dussehra, Birth Centenary of Swami Nityatmananda.)

  • Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (May 30, 1993)
  • The author’s blessings – Swami Nityatmananda (Shardiya Durga Navarati, 1965)
  • The founder’s prayer – Swami Nityatmananda (December 20, 1967)
  • The author’s preface (given as an appendix in the original) – (Sri Sri Holy Mother’s Birth Anniversary, 1970)
  1. Holy Mother, the ideal of service and self control
  2. Jagannath Puri, the meeting place of all religions
  3. The greatest message of my life
  4. Well-done! Well-done! Well-done!
  5. There is no collection-bowl here’
  6. God and the world peace
  7. Narendra, knower of Brahman in the service of God-in-the-jiva
  8. Sri Ramakrishna at the junction (of the world and the Eternal)
  9. Education in the Math – the real Indian education
  10. The joy of literature vs. the joy of Brahman – Kalidas and Shakespeare
  11. Reminiscences of Swami Brahmananda
  12. Sri Ramakrishna in wonder
  13. The vedas are confused sounds made by the dumb
  14. No happiness for me, no sorrow for me
  15. Adversity wakens the latent strength
  16. That void was filled on meeting Thakur
  17. Rasik, the untouchable, is redeemed
  18. Pilgrimage & tapasya – Rishikesh & Swargashrama
  19. At the time of repose
  20. So long one has a body, one is under Mahamaya
  21. At the re-union of the sadhus on the Vijaya day
  22. Which holy place could you go to leaving Me behind?
  23. You are the personification of Thakur’s words
  24. Company of the sadhus – an oasis in the desert
  25. Thakur stands at your door with a pot of immortality in his hand
  26. The heart of the sadhu is stone-hard and flower-soft
  27. That’s why caution and prayer are needed

Volume VIII

(First edition 1998.)

  • Acknowledgement
  • Publisher’s Note – The Kathamrita Day, Thursday, 26th of February, 1998
  • The author’s blessings – Swami Nityatmananda (Sri Ramakrishna Math, Rishikesh, Himalayas, Shardiya Durga Navarati, 1965)
  • [The founder’s prayer – Swami Nityatmananda (December 20, 1967)]
  • Introduction
  1. Circumambulation
  2. Another forest-feast in the tapovana of Dakshineswar
  3. One is saved a great deal by keeping company of an all-renouncing sadhu
  4. A relentless war with mind is needed
  5. India will again rise with the glory of Self-knowledge
  6. Sadhu – a living commentary on the shastras
  7. The avatara doesn’t have jiva’s nature
  8. This very man will then become a god-man
  9. Then only ask for peace, peace and perfect peace
  10. The Gita came into being in the battle-field
  11. Let us see God in the Avatara; what use running here and there
  12. M., the Bhagavata Pandit
  13. Faith in God brings determination in one’s actions
  14. Compassion binds, service liberates
  15. The avatara is that Hole
  16. Bring determination, reverence and serenity in your work
  17. Sannyasa is nothing but giving God what is His
  18. Smoke can not pollute the sky
  19. Blessed is he who imbibes Thakur’s bhava
  20. The spot of Thakur’s leela, national monument of India
  21. The Mother can make the hog-plum tree yield mangoes
  22. Sri Ramakrishna’s meeting with Keshab in Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
  23. Narendra conquers the world with a fraction of a priest’s grace
  24. M. in the Gurudwara
  25. Guru Nanak and Arjun Dev
  26. Man can tear apart the veil within
  27. The avatara is the Sun, his intimate disciples its rays

Volume IX

  • M. in a glass-house – Author’s Preface
  1. Thakur’s leela, the hard surrounding shield of maya
  2. The blessing and the curse
  3. M. in the Bhadrotsva of the Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
  4. You will come only here and go nowhere else
  5. Enjoy yourself, you the child of the all Blissful Mother
  6. Reading Kathamrita is the best company of sadhus
  7. Unshakable faith who has, last birth he has
  8. Eternal festival – Birth anniversary of the world
  9. It is of the Bombay-mango class
  10. God within, priest without
  11. Have the strength of ten thousand elephants in your mind before you enter the household life
  12. Because of fear, it was all in vain
  13. O,O, you are a devotee of Gadai
  14. The Kathamrita, an unparalleled scripture in world history
  15. You will have to narrate Bhagavata
  16. M. in the Gaudia Math for the first time
  17. Everybody is suffering from the delirium
  18. M. in the Jain temple and again in the Gaudia Math
  19. M. in the Math, Temple and Khaddar exhibition
  20. World peace by joining Science with Philosophy
  21. Giving to the sevakas is giving to God
  22. The son will return home

Volume X

(1st edition published in English June 11, 2000)

  • Acknowledgement
  • Publisher’s Note
  • Author’s blessings
  • Prayer
  • Like rice in the husk – Author’s Preface
  1. A `ghati’ (jugful) of crying, crying like a child
  2. Fire of the world and shower of peace, both are here
  3. Every saying is like a lamp
  4. By reciting it goes to the mind
  5. Again the forest-feast and the festival of Durga
  6. Kashi, the storehouse of jnana and bhakti
  7. By realising God, one attains the highest culture
  8. Which is the higher culture, just learning or self-knowledge?
  9. M., absorbed in the rasa of Raas
  10. Today, a successful day
  11. There is something beyond reason too
  12. The seven steps to destruction
  13. M. in the Lily Cottage
  14. He who sees only the eye of the fish, hits the target
  15. Keshab, the steady bearer of Thakur’s bhava
  16. At the Kalpa-taru place of pilgrimage
  17. The Madhavi Peeth – Sri Ramakrishna and Totapuri
  18. In the ‘meeting’ temple
  19. The knowledge of Shiva in the jiva brings world peace
  20. Thakur’s one instruction : Do something
  21. The path of bhakti also brings Brahman-jnana

Volume XI

  1. Sadhu, the link to God
  2. Kamarpukur, all illumined
  3. Swamiji broke India’s sleep of attachment
  4. Thakur, the illustration of the one liberated in this very life and in this very body
  5. M. in the Budhha Vihara, Church and Brahmo Samaj
  6. I say, have I fallen too low?
  7. Religion means faith
  8. Lack of feeling of doership means the Mother’s presence
  9. M. and Rajarishi Manindra Nandi in Budhha Vihara
  10. A diamond in the hands of brinjal-seller
  11. Begging alms and the Brahmachari
  12. M., the best doctor
  13. Living Holy Mother in the Math today – M. and MacLeod
  14. Superhuman if one sees Him
  15. Raghu in search of Bliss
  16. Like the moon floating on water
  17. Babu himself has come today

Volume XII

  1. `Hold Me’ – Ramakrishna
  2. Christ was born in a stable – Sri Ramakrishna in a husking shed
  3. The idol of Kali – a symbol of creation, preservation and dissolution
  4. Man is like a flute
  5. Sadhu pilgrims at Gangasagar
  6. People are mad after the world, the avatara after God
  7. The avatara’s interpretation of scriptures is correct
  8. Premananda in the eyes of Saradananda
  9. Man is hundred percent human
  10. M., the modern teacher
  11. Vipin Pal, the revolutionary in Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
  12. Attain peace before you dispense it
  13. In search of intimate disciples – M., the agent
  14. Vivekananda is the foremost ambassador of spiritual awakening in America – Gilki
  15. Nitai, the sannyasi, becomes a householder on a divine mission

Volume XIII

  1. The Collection
  2. Equality inside, distinctin outside
  3. Priest or God, this is the riddle
  4. You will have to do a little of Mother’s work
  5. Chitranjan, the Rajarishi bhakta
  6. It is all quite when the curtain goes up – the bhakta from Mandley
  7. The loss of powers of mind can be made up by complete renunciation
  8. Everybody will partake of the feast, sooner or later
  9. In search of repose
  10. Thakur, the personification of Indian culture
  11. Gandhiji and Chitranjan – each one is His spark
  12. M. and Sri Mahapurusha
  13. M. and Surendranath Banerji – wisdom vs. loss of discrimination
  14. Birth anniversary of Naga Mahashay and Dr. Moreno
  15. Whether you remain in family or leave it – the goal remains God-realisation
  16. Dr. Radhakrishnan, Puri dham and Sri Ramakrishna
  17. Two classes of devotees, one like the fly and other like the bee
  18. A forest-feast in the Panchavati
  19. The bhakta wil have two eyes on his back too

Volume XIV

  1. One goes as a man and returns as a god
  2. Aaharan*
  3. Kali Tapasvi, the lecturer in Vedanta
  4. Jagannath on the one hand, Baidyanath on the other
  5. Be an ant and take only sugar
  6. Puri, the leela spot of Chaitanya Deva
  7. At the call of Jagannath
  8. The birth anniversary of Christ in Srikshetra (Puri)
  9. In the Church and the Siddhashrama
  10. In the pursuit of divinty : Christ and Ramakrishna
  11. They will be redeemed when the knowledge of the Absolute goes in the west
  12. Brahmin Haridas under the Bakul Tree
  13. On the way to Bhubaneswar
  14. In the Lingraj temple
  15. The Return
  16. Rajvesh (the robing ceremony) of Lord Jagannath
  17. Circumambulation
  18. Puri filled with Chaitanya
  19. Religious life – struggle between faith and disbelief
  20. These divine scenes are the food for the mind
  21. Reading from the diary, churn out the butter and live with butter milk
    Appendix

* events not in chronological order with the rest of the book

Volume XV

  • M., the model of sannyasa in household – Author’s Preface…. read.
  1. All men have their faults and qualities – even so reverence is due to sadhus…read
  2. Death flees when one shouts for help to the Lord…read
  3. Living Thakur is living Truth…read
  4. A collection of images…read
  5. Sannyasa – the sight for gods to see…read
  6. A child is hundred percent child…read
  7. A chain of pearls – all these words...read
  8. Company of sadhus, company of sadhus, company of sadhus…..read
  9. About Mahapurursh….read
  10. The image of Shiva….read
  11. Sri Mahapurursha, the liberated one in this very life….read
  12. The glory of Puri…read
  13. M. in sick bed
  14. M. filled with Ramakrishna
  15. Thakur came to make heroes
  16. The picture of Mahapurusha Maharaj
  17. The series of pictures
  18. The last reading of the Kathamrita
  19. The lotus grove
  20. The test
  21. On the way to final journey
  22. New centres of pilgrimage
  • Appendix I – Sri Sri M.’s Mahasamadhi
  • Appendix II – Events immediately before M.’s Mahasamadhi

Volume XVI

  • A life sketch of Swami Nityatmananda
  1. M. determined to transform jiva into Shiva
  2. First decide upon your duty
  3. Janama Dvitiya, M. in the Belur Math
  4. By doing something, one has no regrets
  5. M., the ascetic, in Rishikesh Himalayas
  6. About Vidyapeeth
  7. Faith, firm or stable
  8. First work and penance, then work becomes penance
  9. The first Vidyapeeth in Mihijam
  10. M. and the sadhus of Belur Math
  11. Thakur came only to make heroes
  12. Gandhiji and Karma yoga
  13. Shodasi Puja
  14. Song corresponds to the mood
  15. The scriptures should be heard from the lips of the guru
  16. To receive His blessings is the most rare thing on the earth
  17. Some letters of M.

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