About the Book: Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th-century.
Ramakrishna was given to spiritual ecstasies from a young age, and was
influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the
goddess Kali, Tantra and Vaishnava Bhakti and Advaita Vedanta. The name of
Ramakrishna has lately been so often mentioned in Indian, American and English
newspapers that a fuller account of his life and doctrine seemed to the author
likely to be welcome, not only to the many who take an interest in the
intellectual and moral state of India, but to the few also to whom