Holy Mother : Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi, Wife of Sri Ramakrishna and Helpmate in His Mission
I have read with great pleasure your new biography of Sarada Devi. It is an extraordinary story, of a rare human being, and how beautifully you have told it! Sarada Devi, humble and unpretentious, takes her place among the world's great souls.  --Donald Szantho; Harrington Minister of the Community Church, New YorkThis is a well-nigh incredible book. It is the story of the wife of a recent Hindu saint who herself became a saint. Only India could have produced her. Educationally illiterate, born in an economically poor Bengal village and disciplined by the obligations to her husband and mother-in-law of a high caste Hindu patriarchal joint family, she expresses provincial Hindu and even reactionary India. Because however of the Hindu's quest for the timeless factor in human nature, she speaks also for all women everywhere and for all mankind. Today there is a Hindu religious and political reaction against the secular surface of India's politics. Thus Holy Mother typifies at once both the cause and the meaning of this reaction. To understand why, one must realize that two-thirds of all Indians are Hindus and most of the Hindu's life is never seen by the tourist or visiting social scientist since it occurs in the privacy of the Hindu family and in silent meditative attempts, frequently before dawn, to experience the timeless Brahman. It is because this book takes its readers into this unseen India that it must be read by all who want to know these remarkable people.  --F.S.C. Northrop; Sterling Professor of Philosophy and Law, Yale UniversityWill contribute towards a better understanding of the forces that influence the people of India and have helped to mould them. The life of Holy Mother is one of simplicity, depth, and great inspiration and should be read by those who desire to understand India's spiritual heritage.  --Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit; Former Ambassador to the U.S.S.R and the U.S.A., and former president of the General Assembly of the United Nations