Download or read book Ramakrishna Paramhansa Mystic Saints Of India written by B.K. Chaturvedi and published by . This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of Ramakrishna written by Mahendra Nath Gupta and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the collection of decades of talks between Ramakrishna and his disciples, devotees and visitors. Thus, it is a complete collection of his philosophic ideas, captured the very moments they were uttered and preserved for future generations. The book tells the stories of the divine origin of a human and nature, the energies that influence stand behind everything in our lives and influence our actions, and how to find peace and harmony by understanding what peace and harmony is. It also describes the lives of people, that found their spiritual way by worshipping their gods, or rather the embodiments of God, as the Higher Power. The text of this book was translated with the help of the prominent Americans of those times, such as the daughter of the President Woodrow Wilson and the poet John Moffit. Mahendranath Gupta (1854 –1932) was a disciple of the great 19-th century Hindu mystic Rama-krishna, a teacher to Paramahansa Yogananda, a famous 20th-century yogi and an author of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He met The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishnain his teens and since then he became his devoted disciple. Since the age of 13 Mahendranath wrote a diary, which later became a basis of the book about Sri Ramakrishna, which was his greatest achievement of the great influencer, as it helped spread the teachings of Ramakrishna around the world.
Download or read book Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhans written by Sanjay Goyal and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhans: Inspirational Biographies for Children by Sachin Sinhal: This book is a biography of Ramakrishna Paramhans, a 19th-century Indian saint and mystic who had a profound impact on Indian religion and spirituality. The book explores his early life, his spiritual awakening, and his teachings and philosophy, as well as his impact and legacy on Indian culture. Key Aspects of the Book "Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhans: Inspirational Biographies for Children": Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhans: The book provides an in-depth look at the life of Ramakrishna Paramhans, from his childhood to his spiritual awakening. Teachings and Philosophy: The book explores Paramhans's teachings and philosophy, highlighting his emphasis on spiritual experience and his embrace of diverse religious traditions. Impact and Legacy: The book also explores Paramhans's impact and legacy on Indian culture, including his influence on the development of modern Hinduism. Sachin Sinhal is an Indian writer and educator who has written several biographies of notable historical figures, including Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhans: Inspirational Biographies for Children, which explores the life and contributions of a 19th-century Indian saint and mystic who had a profound impact on Indian religion and spirituality.
Download or read book Two Saints written by Arun Shourie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa 'enables us to see God face to face', Gandhiji wrote. Similarly, when someone in his circle was distraught, the Mahatma sent him to spend time at the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi. The Paramahamsa and the Maharshi have been among the greatest spiritual figures of our country. They have transformed the lives of and have been a solace to millions. Their peak, mystic experience is what we yearn to have. But what if several of the experiences they had occur in other circumstances also?With the rigour and painstaking research that mark all his work, Shourie probes the lives of two of India's greatest spiritual masters in the light of the breath-taking advances in neuroscience as well as psychology and sociology. The result is a book of remarkable vigour: an examination - and ultimately reconciliation - of science and faith as also of seemingly antagonistic, irreconcilable worldviews.
Download or read book Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa written by Prem Lata and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play written by Swami Saradananda and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative source biography of Ramakrishna (1836-1886) based on interviews with those who knew him. It is also an interpreted description of the entire range of Ramakrishna?s spiritual disciplines and experiences, explained as much as possible in terms of reason and common empirical experience, with reference to Hindu scriptures and spiritual traditions, western philosophy, Hindu psychology, and Western religious tradition. The setting is Northeast India from 1775 to 1836. Topics include: Avatar; evolution of concept and purpose of: Bhavas (spiritual moods): Bhavamukha (mental state dwelling between the Absolute and the Relative): Brahmo Samaj: Cosmic Mind: Creation and Evolution; Brahman as efficient cause: God; various concepts and spiritual attitudes towards: Guru: India; its spiritual and religious beliefs compared to other countries: Kali Temple at Dakshineswar: Nondual Reality (Advaita): Ramakrishna?s life; worship of Divine Mother; realization of God in Hindu and non-Hindu religions; marriage; disciples: Samadhi: Tantra and Vaishnava Sects; history and methods of worship: Vedanta; main schools and basis in mystic experience: Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta): Yoga.
Download or read book Sayings of Ramakrishna Paramahansa written by Ramakrishna Paramahansa and published by SHARDA PRAKASHAN. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramakrishna was a great Hindu saint, mystic and bhakta. Through his life and teachings he made people realise that God alone is real and all else false, an illusion. His whole life was religion in practice. His devotion to God was complete and unique. His life has been an object lesson in piety, devotion to God, self-realization and the ideals and values of Hinduism. Ramakrishna was born in a religious Brahmin family of Chatterjees or Chattopadhyaya in Bengal at the village Karmapukur in the Hooghly district. Khudiram was his father and Chandramani his mother. They were simple, religious, God-fearing and honest and devoted to Lord Rama. Besides Ramakrishna, they had four other children. They were blessed with the birth of Ramakrishna on February 17,1836. Before that Chandramani, the mother of Ramakrishna had my divine visions and dreams about the coming child. Khudiram too had a vision about Rama Krishna’s spiritual greatness and attainments. They boy was named Gadadhara, meaning the mace-bearer. Many supernatural things happened after the birth of Gadadhara, for example, Chandramani sometimes found the baby too heavy to carry and other times too light like a handful of flowers. At school he took no interest in studies. He found great interest in the epics, religious stories and biographies of great saints. When he grew older, he would often go into deep meditation leading to a state of trance. His father died in 1843. It brought a marked change in boy Gadadhara and he began to enjoy more and more the company of holy persons and sadhus. This association with monks etc. made his practice more and more of meditation. By then he was nine years old and invested with a holy thread. When he was 17 years old, he joined his elder brother Ramkumar in Kolkata where he kept a teaching Toll besides officiated as a family priest. Ramakrishna was given the duties of priest which he performed quite satisfactorily. His piety, devotion, honesty and purity of heart impressed everyone. Later Ramakrishna was appointed the permanent priest of the famous Dakshineshwar Kali temple. It is here at Dakshineshwar that Ramakrishna practiced asceticism, deep meditation, reciting the thousand names of God. Consequently, he began to have visions of the Divine Mother Kali. Gradually this realization depend and he began to have long spells of divine intoxication. With it his sadhana grew more and more intense. Ramkrishna was married to Sardamani Devi at the age of 23 in spite of his total indifference to all worldly affairs. This he did to please and comfort his old mother. His wife also then became a valuable partner in his severe austerities, sadhana and meditations. He often suffered from divine madness and had prolonged spiritual fits which ultimately led him to God-realization. He always looked upon his wife Sarda Devi as the visible representation of the Divine Mother. Later Ramakrishna realized God through other major religious practices, sadhanas and prayers including Christianity and Islam. He heard with great interest the life-story of Jesus Christ and then followed his teachings practically. His reverence for Buddha was no less. He regarded him as an incarnation of God. His deep thirst of God-realization in all his aspects and manifestations led him to the practice of Islam. In this practice also he had ecstatic visions and spiritual realizations. He firmly believed that God is one and common to all religions. He put this faith into practice and had God- realization through all these methods and practices. Ramakrishna had many great and distinguished disciples but Vivekanand was most prominent of these. His original name was Narendra Nath. His deep religious disposition led him to the temple of Dakshineshwar where he became a devotee and disciple of Ramakrishna after many severe tests and trials of his guru. Ramakrishna’s genuine spiritual greatness and God-realization revolutionized Narendra’s mind and ultimately he renounced the world. Initially Vivekananda argued much with Ramakrishna against image-worship, rituals and sadhana and wanted a direct proof about the existence of God, but gradually, he realized Ramakrishna’s true greatness and began himself to have visions and trances in meditation. His close and affectionate association with Ramakrishna totally changed his life and he himself became a great spiritual teacher, guide and guru. Vivekanand created Ramakrishna Mission in association with his fellow-disciples and monks. Ramakrishna was contemporary of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. When he met them, they were deeply influenced and impressed by his extraordinary spiritual personality. He had many notable and well-known devotees who felt highly privileged to spend a few hours in his divine company listening his teachings and sermons which were often so simple, full of sayings, epigrams, anecdotes and in the form of dialogues. Girish Chandra Ghose and Keshab Chandra Sen were among these fortunate devotees. During the last few years of his life, Ramakrishna suffered from acute throat trouble which was diagnosed as “Clergyman’s sore throat.” It gradually aggravated and developed into a cancer. He died and entered Mahasamadhi on 16th of August, 1886.
Download or read book Kali s Child written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-10-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century Bengali mystic Ramakrishna played a major role in the development of Hinduism and is regarded as a modern saint. Yet he remains an enigma to followers unable to reconcile his saintly status with his eroticized language and actions. In this work, Jeffrey J. Kripal attempts to untangle the paradox. He demonstrates that Ramakrishna's famous mystical experiences were driven by erotic energies that he neither fully accepted nor understood; the key to understanding this extraordinary figure, Kripal argues, lies in Tantra and its ritual, symbolic, and doctrinal equation of the mystical and the erotic. Moving through Ramakrishna's world both chronologically and conceptually, Kali's Child employs two complementary interpretive strategies, a nuanced phenomenological reinterpretation of original Bengali texts and a nonreductive psychoanalytic reading of Ramakrishna's mystical eroticism. Kripal shows how the heterosexual structure of Tantric symbolism, the abusive way its rituals were often forced upon the saint, and Ramakrishna's own homosexual desires all came together to produce in him profound feelings of shame, disgust, and fear. Kripal establishes that the homosexuality of this great, if unwilling, Tantric mystic is linked inextricably to virtually every aspect of his life and teachings.
Download or read book Biography of Ramakrishna Parmahamsa written by Pradeep Pandit and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramakrishna Paramhansa, a famous saint of nineteenth century India was the Guru of Swami Vivekanand. He was born in a poor Brahmin family in 1836, in a small town near Calcutta, West Bengal. His life was devoted to mysticism and religious pursuit. A great believer in goddess Kali he often lost consciousness while praying to her. Many disciples were attracted to him. His main disciple was Swami Vivekananda. Ramakrishna started a mission – Ramakrishna mission which was very influential during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries and even now. The mission that was founded by Ramakrishna was universally spread by Swami Vivekananda. His promotion of Hinduism started with his keynote address at the world Parliament of religious meeting in Chicago. It won accolades and people were mesmerised by the speaker and his message. In his last days he gave Vivekananda the responsibility of looking after the disciples and running the mission. He left for his heavenly abode on August 16, 1886 and till the last moment the name of his goddess was on his lips. Biography of Ramakrishna Parmahamsa by Pradeep Pandit: Embark on a spiritual journey with this enlightening biography of Ramakrishna Parmahamsa, a revered Indian saint and mystic. Pradeep Pandit chronicles the life and teachings of Ramakrishna, whose spiritual insights and devotion continue to inspire millions. From his early spiritual experiences to his profound encounters with various religious paths, the biography unveils the soul-stirring story of Ramakrishna's quest for divine realization and his role in shaping the spiritual landscape of India. Key Aspects of the Book "Biography of Ramakrishna Parmahamsa": Spiritual Quest: The biography captures Ramakrishna's profound spiritual journey, exploring his devotion and insights into various spiritual traditions. Interfaith Harmony: Readers witness Ramakrishna's deep respect for different religious paths and his message of universal spirituality and tolerance. Influence on Swami Vivekananda: The book also sheds light on Ramakrishna's significant influence on his disciple, Swami Vivekananda, and the founding of the Ramakrishna Mission. Pradeep Pandit is a skilled biographer known for his expertise in narrating the lives of spiritual luminaries. "Biography of Ramakrishna Parmahamsa" reflects Pandit's dedication to presenting the transformative journeys of spiritual leaders, offering readers a deeper understanding of their teachings and impact on humanity.
Download or read book The Saints of Vraja written by O. B. L. Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective biography of followers of Chaitanya (Sect) of Vrindāvan, India.
Download or read book Two Saints written by Arun Shourie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa 'enables us to see God face to face', Gandhiji wrote. Similarly, when someone in his circle was distraught, the Mahatma sent him to spend time at the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi. The Paramahamsa and the Maharshi have been among the greatest spiritual figures of our country. They have transformed the lives of and have been a solace to millions. Their peak, mystic experience is what we yearn to have. But what if several of the experiences they had occur in other circumstances also? With the rigour and painstaking research that mark all his work, Shourie probes the lives of two of India's greatest spiritual masters in the light of the breath-taking advances in neuroscience as well as psychology and sociology. The result is a book of remarkable vigour: an examination - and ultimately reconciliation - of science and faith as also of seemingly antagonistic, irreconcilable worldviews.
Download or read book Sri Ramakrishna written by M. Sivaramkrishna and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Ramakrishna is one of the greatest spiritual masters to have walked this earth. His life was a demonstration of the true meaning of spirituality and the harmony of all religions.This book brings out the endearing simplicity and catholicity of Sri Ramakrishna. He was not a serious, formidable figure of dry religiosity but a beacon of joy who laced his teachings with humour. Sri Ramakrishna: Love That Knows No Limits provides fresh insights into the saint's life and teachings and is a valuable addition to the existing literature on the Great Master.
Download or read book J Krishnamurti written by Pupul Jayakar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic biography of one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our times In 1909, when he was just fourteen, Krishnamurti was proclaimed the world teacher in whom Maitreya, the Bodhisattva of compassion, would manifest. The proclamation was made by Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, a movement that combined Western occult philosophy with Buddhist and Hindu teachings. Besant trained Krishnamurti in his role as the chosen one but twenty years later he chose to disband the order he was head of and set out alone on his endless journey— As a contemporary of Krishnamurti and one of his closest associates. Pupul Jayakar offers an insider's view of the fascinating life and thought of an extraordinary individual.
Download or read book Ramakrishna Paramahamsa written by Amiya P Sen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Ramakrishna Paramhamsa has been the subject of innumerable volumes devoted to his life and teachings over the past century and a half, Ramakrishna Paramhamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshineswar illuminates this enigmatic religious figure and stands out amidst the multitude of voices that crowd his story. It traces the several contradictions of nineteenth-century Bengal that the man embodied: between his Vaishnav roots and Sakti worship; between bhakti and gyan; and between a guru and sadhaka (spiritual practitioner). Amiya P. Sen situates Sri Ramakrishna within the emerging social and cultural anxieties of the time as also the larger Hindu-Brahminical world that he was born into. This book also carries a brief but critical introduction to the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Ramakrishna’s vibrant theology that will be of interest to lay readers as well as those especially interested in the cultural and religious history of modern Bengal. See also Amiya Sen’s His Words: The Preaching and Parables of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Download or read book The Life of Ramakrishna written by Romain Rolland and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saints of India Ramakrishna Parmahamsa written by Shiri Ram Bakshi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ramakrishna Paramhansa written by Dr. B.R. Kishore and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the legendary Indian religious missionary is a sequel to the author's earlier short biography titled 'Ramakrishna Paramhansa.' This is the life story of a prophet and messiah of the then undivided Bengal which would continue to be told and retold, because it is a testament of faith, devotion and God realization. Its appeal is universal and hence it belongs to the entire humanity. Nevertheless, the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa are so vast and multitudinous that even volumes of books can not exhaust them. The author has been in close touch with the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa as a reader for several years. Hence this book is an instant fallout of his studies in to the mysterious and fascinating life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa.