Drawing extensively on her own words and advice to followers, Richard Lannoy reveals a personality at once both breathtakingly simple and an enigma of fathomless complexity. His high-speed action photography captures her essence while his text recounts her dramatic spiritual metamorphosis from youthful ecstatic to venerable sage.
Many people have helped in a variety of ways to ensure that this book would reach the high standards they longed for, and I alone am responsible for the manifest shortcomings in the text, the photographs and the layout design.
I am deeply grateful to Gitanjali Dhingra for rescuing the whole project from oblivion and whose faith has been unwavering. I would also like particularly to thanks Markell Brooks for taking such a bold leap of imagination and thereby making it all possible. Through their magnanimity we have all had our wishes to celebrate the birth centenary of Mataji fulfilled.
I would also like to pay special tribute to one who is no longer with us, but without whom this book would never have come into existence-Atmananda. Indeed, without Atmananda I would never have met Anandamayi. Her loyalty and devotion to Mataji for 40 years has its best memorial in the superbly luminous and faithfully accurate translations of Mataji's words included in this book. I have fond memories of sitting with her and Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, puzzling together over the choice of exactly the right English word in the early stages of translation. Thus I also wish to honour the memory of a great scholar, Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Sri Gopinath Kaviraj, for wise counsel and for his indefatigable efforts to serve Anandamayi over a very long span of years.
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