George C. Williams is an American evolutionary Biologist. He received a PhD in Biology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1955. He is also an advocate of evolutionary medicine. He is the author of an outstanding book, Adaptation and Natural Selection.
On the philosophical level,…in Ramakrishna [we find] a formula for adapting the philosophy of India, Vedanta, for expansion beyond the borders of India, and for serious scrutiny in the centres of philosophy and psychology around the world. Without the impulse of Ramakrishna, the great treasures of the Indian philosophical speculation might not have become so available, in the present flexible and constructive form, to the Western world.
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I am very grateful for this brilliant initiative of bringing Thakur’s teachings, and above all for making the English translation of Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga available.
May the Grace of Thakur and the Mother always be with the creators of this work!admin
Thank you
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