Swami Atmalokananda and Swami Tapasananda and the formation of Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Lakeshore Interfaith Community, Ramakrishna Sarada Universal Temple in Ganges : Commissioned by Swami Bhashyananda and Swami Sarvagatananda, Swami Atmalokananda and Swami Tapasananda are the Monastic Assistants and Trustees to Mataji Gauribrata Puri Devi, President of Mothers Trust/Mothers Place, Ramakrishna Sarada Ashram, Lakeshore Interfaith Community in Ganges, Michigan. Swami Atmalokananda will be the Swami-in-Charge, acting as the Successor to Mataji Gauribrata Puri Devi. It takes 14 years or longer of serious study and training to receive final vows as a Sannyasin monastic. In the Ramakrishna Sarada Ashram a Mataji-in-Charge, or Swami-in-Charge, will be appointed the President, Head of the Order. Swami Tapasananda and Swami Atmalokananda, from 1973-1992, constructed the Vivekananda Monastery, in Ganges, Michigan. Both joined the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago under Swami Bhashyananda in 1973. Both were sent to India, on several occassions, and lived in the Vivekananda Monastery in Ganges, Michigan, where Swami Tapasananda was in charge of construction and Swami Atmalokananda the manager from 1983-1992. In 1985, after 12 years, 1973-1985, in the Vedanta Society in Chicago, Swami Bhashyananda and Swami Bramarupananda brought Eva E. Schroeder to enter into the womens side of the Vivekananda Monastery in Ganges, Michigan, to create a monastic lineage in the direct order of Ramakrishna/Sarada nuns founded by Sannyasini Gaurima. In 1987 Eva E. Schroeder was taken by Swami Bhashyananda and his group to India where she first came upon the oldest womens convent established in 1895 commissioned by, Sri Ramakrishna and founded by Sri Ramakrishna's only woman monastic disciple Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi, named Sri Saradeshwari Ashram. Again in 1989 Eva E. Schroeder was sent by Swami Bhashyananda to this convent, Sri Saradeshwari Ashram to become the first western woman to receive sannyas from the oldest woman convent in the direct lineage of Ramakrishna/Sarada. Swami Bhashyananda and Mataji Vandana Ma exchanged letters. Swami Sarvagatananda inspired women to leave Chicago and renounce to Ganges, MI, to help consruct the Holy Mother's Temple and womens side in Ganges, Michigan. Swami Bhashyananda and Swami Sarvagatananda commssioned Swami Atmalokananda and Swami Tapasananda to help with the work of constructing a Temple to the Holy Mother and with the blessings of Swami Shraddhananda giving the name, Mothers Trust/Mothers Place, and Swami Sarvagatananda giving the Articles of Association and By Laws for the religious order, organization to incorporate Mothers Trust/the Ramakrishna/Sarada womens lineage and social work began. Swami Sarvagatananda told Eva, now Sannyasini Gauribrata Puri Devi to take the help of Swami Tapasananda and Swami Atmalokananada and with their help, western women were established in the Ramakrishna Puri lineage and Sarada, Holy Mother lineage of monastics, at the Sri Sri Saradeshwari Ashram in Calcutta, India, established in 1895. Hinduism is traditionally called Sanatana Dharma which means perennial wisdom. It is very diverse and, like a mighty river, it has many sources, most of which are lost in the mists of prehistory. Not until 1987 did the west ever know of the direct women's lineage to Ramakrishna Sarada nuns established in 1895. Not until Swami Bhashyananda, translated the book Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi did the west ever know that Ramakrishna amongst his 16 male monks had a woman monastic (nun), and honored her on the altar of the Vivekananda Monastery in Ganges, Michigan. During the largest Vedanta Conference that ever took place in the United States in 1987, Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi was placed in the shrine room as the 17th monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna in the Vivekananda Monastery, by Swami Bhashyananda, President of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago and the Vivekananda Monastery in Ganges, MI. In 1992 the groundbreaking ceremony of Holy Mothers Temple in Ganges, Mi. was blessed by Swami Sarvagatananda and Swami Bhashyananda, with the presence of resident monastics of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago and the Vivekananda Monastery and Retreat in Ganges MI., Sannyasinni Gauribrata, Swami Chidananda, Swami Tapasananda, Swami Atmalokananda, Swami Yogeshananda and Swami Brahmarupananda. A truth untold became a reality in 1998 when Mataji Vandana Puri Devi, a disciple of Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi (from age 7) and President of Sri Saradeshwari Ashram in Calcutta, oldest convent in the lineage of Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi, was invited by Swami Bhashyananda to come to the Vivekananda Monastery in Ganges, MI. She accepted the invitation in 1998 when she came to Mothers Trust to inaugurate the Holy Mothers Temple in 1998. (See archives and photos at http://www.motherstrust.org/Saradeshwari-1/). The Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Ramakrishna Sarada Ashram is dedicated to Ramakrishna Monks and Ramakrishna/Sarada Nuns serving in equality, universal truth, spirituality and mission outreach. We are monastics, western michigan health clergy, administrators, interfaith ministers and parish nurses serving all faiths.