The Gospel Of Ramakrishna

by Ramakrishna and Sri Ramakrishna

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463727771
• ISBN13: 9781463727772
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Probably the best book on yoga and spiritual life

If you are a sincere spiritual seeker, you are not likely to find any book better than this one. The whole book is filled with actual recorded question-and-answer conversations between one of India's greatest saints and various people who came to him seeking spiritual insights. The conversations are recorded so vividly that you feel like you are actually there in the room with the people in the story, listening to the words of a great saint. Sri Ramakrishna emphasized that the goal of life is to realize the truth, and that all religions can lead to the same God. He also explained that the only thing separating us from God, whom he defines as the very essence of knowledge, love, and selflessnes, is our own ignorance. Using beautiful stories and parables, he explains how to go beyond this ignorance to realize our true unity with God and with all living beings. For non-Indians, such as myself, the extensive glossary in the back is very helpful in explaining the meanings of Hindu terminology. This book does nothing short of explaining how to realize the highest truth in the words of a man who did so himself. This book is a life-changer.

Universal teachings for all

His beautiful and elegant parables read like Jesus's in the Biblical Gospels, like Jesus had yet to say but did not manage to say because His life was nailed short; another way to look at it is maybe the parables are inspired by the same source. "The worldly-minded never come to their senses, even though they suffer and have terrible experiences. Camels are very fond of thorny shrub. The more they eat of them, the more do their mouths bleed, yet they do not refrain from making them their food.""As persons living in a house infested with venomous snakes are always alert and cautious, so should men living in the world be always on their guard against the allurement of lust and greed.""As the fly sits now on an offering dedicated to gods and again on a festering wound, so the mind of the worldly is at one time deeply engaged in religious topics and at the next moment lost in the enjoyment of lust and wealth." Although the 3rd cited parable mentioned "gods", if you are monotheist, I think Sri Ramakrishna would ask you to feel fine to read as "God"; "the Heaven/Buddha" if you are Buddhist...Truth is the Truth. Regardless of your background and path of practice, I would like to quote from Swami Nikhilananda: "...In these pages seekers of all religions would find courage and faith, hope and illumination."

Ultimate book for the Spiritual Seekers

If someone asks, if you can ever have only one book, I would choose this one. It is indeed a blessing to read this. Whoever reads this will have a paradigm shift in their spiritual life. As given in the reviews, it is "the consummation of two thousand years of the spiritual life of three hundred million"!

Extremelly beautifull, extremelly usefull

Simply the best book I have ever read. It's a very simple and profound book. It's lenghty size (more than 1000 pages) is like walking in a long white sand beach, you stroll the pages on and on, the stories seems to repeat itself like the scenery in a beach, but you never get tired, or bored, rather it always enlarge your view about very important spiritual matters. A book recommended for the ones questing for spiritual clarifications and guidance

A review of The Gospel of Sri Ramadrishna by M.

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is truly one of the spiritual treasures of the ages. It contains over 1,000 pages of dialogue capturing the words and essence of a man beloved not only in India but around the world as a pure expression of the divine. While the comparison may seen blasphemous to some, imagine the Gospels of Jesus recorded in faithful and impeccable detail with conversations enlarged upon ten times over, this will give the reader an idea of the content of this wonderful book. My own experience of reading this work is that it has immeasurably enriched my own spiritual quest. The mere act of reading the book has taken me many times to beautifully deep meditative states but each reader will have his own experience. I can only encourage the serious student to open her or his heart to its pages it could be the beginning of the most wonderful journey.