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When a Goddess Dies (Orianne Aymard)
When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping Ma Anandamayi after Her Death

It analyses how devotion to a guru survives and changes after death: worship at the Kankhal samadhi, the experiences of presence devotees report and the institutionalisation of the Sangha that preserves her ashrams.
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Authorship note
Anthropological study by Orianne Aymard; a work about her.
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When a Goddess Dies
Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 2014
ISBN 9780199368617
Other works by Anandamayi Ma
- Sad Vani (true words) · 1935
- Matri Vani (words of the Mother) · 1963
- Sri Sri Ma Anandamayi (Gurupriya Devi’s diaries) · 1925
- Mother as Revealed to Me (Matri Darshan)
- Words of Sri Anandamayi Ma · 1961
- Ananda Varta (journal) · 1952
- Mother Reveals Herself · 2014
- Svakriya Svarasamrita
- In Association with Sri Sri Ma Anandamayi · 1986
- Vangmayee Ma (the Mother as word) · 2024
- Ma in Her Words
- Amar Vani (immortal words) · 1968
- The Teaching of Ma Ananda Moyi · 1974
- Pearls of Light · 1995
- Death Must Die (Atmananda’s diaries) · 2000
- Mother of Bliss (Lisa Lassell Hallstrom) · 1999
- Life and Teaching of Sri Anandamayi Ma (Alexander Lipski) · 1977
- Life and Teachings of Sri Ma Anandamayi (Bithika Mukerji) · 1998
- My Days with Sri Ma Anandamayi (Bithika Mukerji) · 2002
- Anandamayi: Her Life and Wisdom (Richard Lannoy) · 1996
- Encountering Bliss (Melita Maschmann) · 2002
Sources
- Aymard, Orianne. When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping Ma Anandamayi after Her Death. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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