Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: Sadhaka of Dakshineswar

by Amiya P. Sen

While Ramakrishna Paramhamsa has been the subject of innumerable volumes devoted to his life and teachings over the past century and a half, Ramakrishna 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 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 The Preaching and Parables of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 9, 2010

Reviews

[Jose Ingojo · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful well-researched book!

I just finished this book. It is a very good well-research biography that tries to be dispassionate and objective. It neither worships nor debunks. It presents a serious look at the life of the swami who brought Vedanta to America without all the mythology and adulation of his devotees.