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The Gospel of Ramakrishna distills Mahendra Nath Gupta's meticulous, date-stamped chronicles of Sri Ramakrishna's conversations at Dakshineswar during the Bengal Renaissance. Composed in a spare, diaristic style—part stenographic transcript, part dramatic vignette—the book preserves the living cadence of oral teaching: parable, colloquial banter, scripture-laced aphorism, and sudden bursts of bhava. It situates Ramakrishna's ecstatic Advaita-inflected bhakti within a plural, colonial milieu, registering his engagements with Tantra, Vaishnavism, Vedanta, as well as Islam and Christianity, and the everyday textures of a bhadralok devotional salon. Gupta—known to readers as "M."—was a Calcutta schoolmaster trained in English education and embedded in the emerging middle-class culture. A householder devotee and careful observer, he began visiting Ramakrishna in 1882, keeping contemporaneous notes with times, places, and dramatis personae. His restraint, self-effacing narrative stance, and bilingual milieu yielded a document at once intimate and critically precise, later shaped in Bengali as Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita and widely known in English as The Gospel of Ramakrishna. For scholars of religion, South Asian history, and literary ethnography—as well as seekers—this book offers a rare phenomenology of lived devotion and pedagogy. Read it for method and music: precision, humility, and spiritual intensity. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
The Gospel of Ramakrishna distills Mahendra Nath Gupta's meticulous, date-stamped chronicles of Sri Ramakrishna's conversations at Dakshineswar during the Bengal Renaissance. Composed in a spare, diaristic style—part stenographic transcript, part dramatic vignette—the book preserves the living ca...
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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.
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...
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