The Centre's bookshop at its Headquarters is well stocked with a variety
of titles. These include titles of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda range, scriptures
(Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Tirukkural, etc.), books on practical spirituality,
lives of saints and children's books.
Bookshop hours are weekdays - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday's after the public satsang. The
bookshop is also open after public functions.
Below is a short list of books we stock and a brief write up; these titles we recommend to the general
public.
Title: Sri Ramakrishna The Great Master (Vol.1 & 2)
Author: Swami Saradananda
Translated by Swami Jagadananda
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Genre: Sri Ramakrishna
Price: R80.00 per set
This is the authentic English version of
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga, a faithful record and an exposition in Bengali, of the life
of Sri Ramakrishna, as recorded and explained by one of his monastic disciples. This is an
essential book for all those who want to understand Sri Ramakrishna's life in its various
aspects in correct light and in precise detail.
Title: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Vol. 1 & 2)
Author: Mahendranath Gupta
Translated by Swami Nikhilananda
Genre: Sri Ramakrishna
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Price: R25.00 per set
Sri Ramakrishna was a living embodiment of Godliness.
His sayings are not those of a mere learned man, but are pages from the book of life.
Mahendranath Gupta has recorded his sublime utterances with stenographic precision. Therefore
they are a beacon light to all who tread the spiritual path, to whichever race or religion
they may belong.
Title: Sri Ramakrishna: Life And Teachings
Author: Swami Tapasyananda
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Genre: Sri Ramakrishna
Price: R5.00
Sri Ramakrishna's life is a life of spirituality in practice, a sublime sonnet with a singular
note of God consciousness, a summary of all that the scriptures of the world have to say, and
even much more. To contain such a boundless life and personality within a few pages is certainly
as audacious a task as to attempt to contain the ocean in a pot. Yet this book humbly attempts to
portray his life and personality in a clear and candid style. It is specially meant for those who
do not have much time to read his life in detail and wish to learn about him in brief.
Title: Ramakrishna And His Disciples
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: Sri Ramakrishna
Price: R40.00
In this biography of the great Master, Mr. Isherwood approaches Sri Ramakrishna with love and
devotion, just like any Hindu, and at the same time, deals with his subject in the scientific
spirit of a Western investigator.
Title: Life of Sri Ramakrishna
Foreword By Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: Sri Ramakrishna
Price: R50.00
A comprehensive and chronological account of the Master's wonderful life. Mahatma Gandhi writes
in his Foreword: 'The story of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa's life is a story of religion in practice.
His life enables us to see God face to face. No one can read the story of his life without being
convinced that God alone is real and that all else is an illusion.'
Title: The Gospel of The Holy Mother
Recorded by her devotee-children
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Genre: Sri Sarada Devi
Price: R70.00
Containing the reminiscences of thirty-eight devotee children of Holy Mother (Sri Sarada Devi),
about the contacts and conversations they had, and the events they witnessed in Holy Mother's
life.
Title: Holy Mother Sri Saradadevi
Author: Swami Gambhirananda
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Genre: Sri Sarada Devi
Price: R60.00
An exhaustive life of Holy Mother incorporating as many facts and incidents of Mother's
life as could be gleaned from all reliable sources, oral and documentary.
Title: Biography Of Sri Sarada Devi
Author: Swami Tapasyananda
Genre: Sri Sarada Devi
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Price: R5.00
The life of Sri Sarada Devi, popularly known as the Holy Mother amongst the devotees and the spiritual consort
of Sri Ramakrishna is an enigma. On the surface, it appears to be just a homely life of a Bengali woman mostly
in a rural setting. Her humility, her touches of serene silence, and the gracious and unbounded richness of her
motherly affection, flashes the heavenly splendour of her inner life.
Title: Sri Sarada Devi: A Biography in Pictures
Publisher: Genre: Sri Sarada Devi
Price: R95.00
The life of Sri Sarada Devi, the biographical album containing 165 pictures, includes almost all the
available pictures of the Holy Mother, individual and in group, and many pictures of places and persons
connected with her, arranged chronologically with a life-sketch, write-ups, and quotations.
Title: The Life of Swami Vivekananda (Vol.1 & 2)
Author: Eastern and Western Disciples
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: Swami Vivekananda
Price: R160.00 per set
The book provides the most exhaustive and reliable account of a man who not only lived an inspired
life but was constantly a source of inspiration to others. Says C.Rajagopalachari: 'Swami Vivekananda
saved Hinduism and saved India. But for him, we would have lost our religion and would not have gained
our freedom. We therefore owe everything to Swami Vivekananda.'
Title: The Life of Vivekanada and the Universal Gospel
Author: Romain Rolland
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: Swami Vivekananda
Price: R40.00
In this volume, the author, a great French savant and one of the finest examples of Gallic grace in intellectual
culture, presents a fascinating and graphic account of Swami Vivekananda's life and message. Specially written for
the western readers, nonetheless, its importance and value for all the admirers and devotees of the great Swami
needs no emphasis.
Title: Vivekanda: A Biography in Pictures
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: Swami Vivekananda
Price: R75.00
The story of the Swamiji's life, as told through these pictures and their accompanying quotations or narative,
has been divided into seven chapters, and each chapter is introduced by an account of the Swamiji's life during
that period.
Title: Biography of Swami Vivekananda
Author: Swami Tapasyananda
Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, India
Genre: Swami Vivekananda
Price: R5.00
Life and message of Swami Vivekananda are a source of great inspiration to many in their individual as well as
collective life. The present short biography is intended to meet the needs of those who, with all their earnestness,
have neither the time nor the opportunity to read longer works about the Swami.
Title: Raja Yoga
Author: Swami Vivekananda
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: Yoga
Price: R25.00
For thousands of years extraordinary and supernatural phenomena have been studied, investigated,
and generalised, the whole ground of the religious faculties of man has been analysed, and the practical
result is the science of Raja Yoga. In the modern times Swami Vivekananda has been the most authoritative
oracle to propound this age-old science of God-realisation. The main theme of the book is concentration of
mind as a means to super-conscious state.
There are several means of realizing God. The path of selfless work is one among them. This book contains
eight lectures delivered by Swami Vivekananda on the practical application of the teachings of Vedanta to
the affairs of daily life, showing how it is possible to lead the highest life and ultimately realize the
Self without abandoning the duties and avocations of one's life in the world. It shows the readers the technique
of converting the mundane activities of every-day-life into a means of attaining supreme felicity.
In the pages of this book one comes across a brilliant exposition of the philosophy of Vedanta, and its practice
through the method of enquiry and discrimination dealt in the light of Advaita Vedanta and science. These lectures
were delivered by Swami Vivekananda at London and New York. One of the best books dealing with the path of
discrimination for attaining the summum bonum of human life and hence very important.
Love in its varied aspects is the motive force behind all the actions of living beings. But love takes its
highest form when directed towards the Divine or God. Among the different paths leading man towards the
attainment of the Supreme is the one of love, devotion, and complete surrender. In this book Swami Vivekananda
expounds how the path of Bhakti or Divine Love leads man to the Supreme Truth. Being an exposition by one of the
pioneers in the religious and spiritual realm of the modern times, the value of this work need not be separately
emphasized.
Title: Bhagavad Gita
Publisher: Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa
Genre: Scripture
Price: R25.00
This book is best suited for those who want to study the Gita for the first time. With original text in Devanagari
character, and word-for-word English rendering followed by running translation and a short commentary.
Title: Great Women of India
Publisher: Advaita Ashram, Kolkata, India
Genre: General
Price: R95.00
This excellant volume, containing twenty-four valuable articles from the pen of eminent
writers, with a scholarly introduction by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, presents a brilliant array
of great Indian women- position and prospect in Indian society during the best five thousand
years- likely to lead to a proper understanding of the subject and a correct assessment of Indian culture.
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