as befitted the greatest man of humility I ever knew. In this Amherst Street house, Master Mahasaya conducted a small high school for boys. No words of chastisement passed his lips; no rule and ferule maintained his discipline. Higher mathematics indeed were taught in these modest classrooms, and a chemistry of love absent from the textbooks. He spread his wisdom by spiritual contagion rather than impermeable precept. Consumed by an unsophisticated passion for the Divine Mother, the saint no more demanded the outward forms of respect than a child." Yogananda went on to describe several seemingly miraculous experiences with Mahendranath. Later, Yogananda said about him that "I would roll on the ground where he'd walked, so great was my love for him. I felt that even that ground had been sanctified." Later life and death In 1922, M. lived in Mihijam, a town 144 miles from Kolkata, for nine months. In 1932, when the fifth Volume of Kathamrita was at the printers Mahendranath died at his home, now called Kathamrita Bhavan, located near the Thanthania Kali Temple in Calcutta. Kathamrita Bhavan is a pilgrimage place for followers of Ramakrishna due to numerous visits there by Ramakrishna and Sarada Devi, and several relics associated with their lives. References Bibliography (full book is 16 volumes) External links Table of Contents for "M" – The Apostle and the Evangelist (16-volumes) Sources of Biographical Information about M. Presidency University, Kolkata alumni University of Calcutta alumni Bengali people 19th-century Indian non-fiction writers Writers from Kolkata Ramakrishna Mission Lay disciples of Ramakrishna 1854 births 1932 deaths 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers Indian spiritual writers