Reply to Nikhil B Kaplingat

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Sri Ramakrishna Charanam Saranam; Sri Sri Ma

 

Dear Nikhil,

 

The first volume of the " Conversations on Spirit

Divine " was published from Ramakrishna Niranjan Ashrama, Sri Ramakrishna Nagar, Ottappalam-3 in 1964 and the last volume (volume 4) came out

in 1976. Prior to this, a separate volume, " Spiritual Science " was

also published from the same Ashrama in 1963.

 

Apart from the Malayalam monthly “Ramakrishna Tulasi Sugandham”, the Ashrama published many books in the past. Some of them are the

following:-

 

1)

“Life and Teachings of Swami

Nirmalananda’” - by Swami Vishadananda (English)

2)

“Narayana

Suktam” (or Mahanarayanam)

–text and commentary by Swami Vishadananda

(Malayalam)

3)

“Life of Swami Vivekananda”

by Swami Chinmayananda (Malayalam)

4)

“Sri Ramakrishna Bhagavatam” by Swami Vishadananda

(Malayalam)

5)

“Sri Ramakrishna Suprabhatam” (Sanskrit) by Ottur

Unni Nambuthirippad (113

verses in sanskrit serialized in the Ashrama magazine)

6)

“Sri Ramakrishna Karnamritam” (Sanskrit) by Ottur

Unni Nambuthirippad (serialized

in the Ashrama magazine).

7)

“Vivekananda Vijayam” (Ottan Thullal) Malayalam by Swami Vishadananda

8)

“Sarada Namasankirtanam”

in Malayalam by Swami (Mataji) Sadananda

of Sri Sarada Ashrama, Ottapalam

and serialized in the magazine.

 

Bhagavatam

was published two more times as it became a hit among the Malayalam-speaking

devotees. Suprabhatam was published recently from Kayamkulam Ashrama with

translations/transliterature in four different scripts(Sanskrit, Roman, Malayalam and Tamil). Karnamritam was republished by Madras Math.

 

Since 1942, Ottappalam Ashrama ceased to be a

branch centre of the world-wide organization, “Ramakrishna Mission”

head-quartered at Belur Math. Nevertheless, it is one of the important centres of the Ramakrishna Order of Sannyasins

in the history of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement. It produced many

saintly Swamis and devotees in the past and continues to be a source of

inspiration for thousands of Ramakrishna devotees all around the world as a sacred

pilgrim/retreat Centre.

Pranams

P.S.Kamanat