CHAPTER XIV
COSSIPUR GARDEN-HOUSE
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Bhagavan Ramakrishna resided for a few months in a large and beautiful garden at Cos- sipur, about two miles north of Calcutta. Here He was constantly surrounded by His most be- loved Sannyasin disciples and by those women disciples who were especially devoted to Him. The Sannyasin disciples were twelve in num-ber.[1]
Most of them were young men of noble families and were graduates of the University at Calcutta. They had left their homes and
- ↑ Narendra (Vivekananda) , Rakhal (Brahmananda), Niran- jan (Niranjananda), Sashi (Ramakrishnananda), Sarat (Sara- dananda), Baburam (Premananda), Kali (Abhedananda), Jogin (Yogananda), Latoo (Adbhutananda), Gopal (Advai- tananda), Tarak (Shivananda), Subodh (Subodhananda).
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