My Days With Sri Ma Anandamayi

by Bithika Mukerji

This book is a lively and engaging account of Sri Ma's enigmatic personality from the point of view of a single devoted family. It is an intimate and moving study of personal commitments. Yet through the author's perspective an emerging modern society is glimpsed where orthodox rites, political upheavals, social changes create the shifting patterns of a kaleidoscope. Sri Ma and authors entourage of visiting dignitaries, princes, scholars, village women and children, and renowned ascetics assume a three-dimensional image. The books is a Valliant attempt at closing the distance between the known and the unfathomable.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Richard Lannoy
• Preface
• The Advent of Sri Ma in our Lives
• My Family
• My cousins Meet Sri Ma
• Changing Times
• A Marriage and a Death in the Family
• Our Entry into the World of Sadhus
• Renu’s Marriage with N.P. Chatterji
• The Break in my University Career
• In Solon with Sri Ma (1946)
• Summer Vacation at Kishenpur Ashram (1947)
• Raipur and Solon Revisted
• One Year of my Life as an Ashramite
• The Best Years of the Ashram in Varanasi
• Sri Ma and the Kanyapeeth
• The Message of Sri Ma Anandamayi
• Bindu and I Take up Jobs
• Sri Ma’s Birthday Celebration at our Home
• Random Memories
• An Invitation from Abroad
• At the Chateau de Bossey
• On the Way to Canada
• My Research Project
• The Anti-Rudra Yajna at Haradwar
• I Am Ever With You
• Glossary.