Probably the most outstanding mystic of India of our era. Ramakrishna linked the old and the new: a product of the centuries of traditional Hinduism, he followed its paths to God-vision; then, seeing around him other faiths of the world and that world “growing small” through modern communication, he practiced disciplines of Islam and Christianity, reaching the conclusion that these paths all lead to the same summit. He taught the renunciation of ego and the harmony of religions.
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Forward by Aldous Huxley)
Portrait by Swami Tadatmananda of the Vedanta Society of Southern California.