Acknowledgements – Bibliography, audiography and other sources –

1- ‘Complete Works of Vivekananda’, vols 1-9. Advaita Press. Kolkata, India.

2- ‘Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries’, vols 1-5.  Marie-Louise Burke. Advaita Press, Kolkata, India.

3- ‘The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna’. Mahendranath Gupta. ‘M’. Ramakrishna Monastery. Mylapore, India. Translator, Sw. Nikhilananda.

4- ‘Days in an Indian Monastery’. Laura Glenn. Sister Devamata. Ramakrishna Monastery, Mylapore, India.

5- ‘Vedanta and the West’. Advaita Press. Kolkata, India.

6– The Vedanta Societies of: California – Southern and Northern. Also of Portland, OR. USA.

7– ‘The Soul of India’, A. de Riencourt. Honeyglen Pub UK. 1986.

8– ‘The Vision of God’, Friedrich Rückert’s Fragments, ex-Rumi. Translator, W. Hastie. Maclehose Publishing, Glasgow UK. 1898.

9– ‘The Festival of Spring’, Rumi. James Maclehose, Glasgow. UK. From Rückert’s versions, translated by W. Hastie. 1903.

10– ‘Saint Teresa of Avila’, Marcelle Auclair. Translator, K. Pond. St Bede’s Publications, USA. 1988.

11– ‘The Life of St Teresa’, by St Teresa. Translator, J.M.Cohen. Penguin Classics, UK. 1958.

12– ‘The Book of the Foundations’, by St Teresa. Translator, J. Dalton (1853), Franklin Classics Trade Press, USA. 2010 (?).

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14– ‘Gravity and Grace’, Simone Weil. Translator, A. Wills. University of Nebraska Press, USA. 1997.

15– ‘The Flowing Light of the Godhead’, Mechthild of Magdeburg. Translator, L. Menzies. Martino Publishing, USA. 2012.

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17– ‘The Mirror of Simple Souls’, Marguerite Porete. 1305 ca. ‘Le Miroir des ames simples’. Translated by ‘MN’, 1450 ca. Edited by Clare Kirchberger, 1927. Soul Care Publishing, Vancouver, Canada, 2012.

18– ‘Cities of Ladies’, Walter Simons, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, USA. 2001.

19– ‘The Béguine, the Angel and the Inquisitor’, S. L. Field. Notre Dame Press, Indiana, USA. 2012.

20– ‘They lived with God’ & ‘God lived with them’. Swami Chetanananda. Vedanta Soc. St.Louis, USA. 1997.

21- ‘Francis of Assisi.’ John Moorman. SPCK Press. 1963.

22– ‘The Messenger and his Emissiary’. Iain McGilchrist. Yale University Press. 2009.

23– ‘Rumi, Spiritual Verses’, by Jellel-Uddin Rumi. Translator, A. Williams. Penguin Classics, UK. 2006.

24– ‘Life of Florence Nightingale’, Edward Cook. Gutenberg.org. 2012.  (MacMillan, UK. 1915 ca.).

25– ‘Florence Nightingale’, Mark Bostridge. 2008. Penguin Books, UK.

26– ‘Mysticism’, Evelyn Underhill. 1911. Christian Classics Library, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. At ccel.org.

27– ‘God’s Ghostwriters’, Candida Moss. Little Brown USA. 2024.

28- ‘Could Hume have known Buddhism?’ alisongopnik.com – theatlantic.com – Oct-2015 issue.

29– Prof M. Kenoyer, Anthropology Dept. Wisconsin-Madison University.

30– Chambers Dictionary/Thesaurus.

31– Theconversation.com.

32– Wikipedia.

33– britannica.com.

34- AZ quotes.

35- Photos: Advaita Press, Kolkata. Vivekananda.org.

36- BBC podcasts. In Our Time. Radio 4. Melvynn Bragg.