ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya
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Sri Ramakrishna was born in the year A.D. 1836 on the 2nd day of the bright fortnight of the month when the sun was in the zodiac of Aquarius (Kumbha- February 18), early in the morning at about 5 a.m His birth took place when it was Siddhi Yoga owing to the auspicious union of Sukla…
ReadAbhedananda. One of the monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, known as Kali during his early life. Achintya-bhedabheda-vada. The philosophic doctrine of the Bengal Vaishnavas, which holds that the ultimate Truth is not pure sameness or non-duality but is difference in sameness, duality in nonduality, the apparent contradiction being explained away thus: that in the infinite,…
ReadAldous Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley Family. He spent the latter part of his life in United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. He was the author of The Perennial Philosophy. ‘The further you go towards the East,’ Sri Ramakrishna was…
ReadAmaury de Reincourt was born in Orleans, France. He received his BA from the Sorboune and his MA from the University of Algiers. He has authored several books. Of these the most remarkable publications are The Soul of India and The American Empire, The Eye of Shiva : Eastern Mysticism and Science. His reading of the Bhagavad-Gita as ‘the…
ReadAmiya Chakravarty was one of the greatest critics of the Post Tagorean period, and a well known Poet. He was Rabindranath’s travel companion during his tours to Europe and America in 1930 and to Iran and Iraq in 1932. The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda tradition… was rooted in India’s perennial philosophy. Truth is One; men call it by different names :…
ReadArnold J. Toyenbee was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working class. A collection of Toyenbee’s lectures was published posthumously in 1884 and soon became a classic of British economic history. He wrote in 12 vols., A Study of History, a most memorable work. Sri Ramakrishna’s…
ReadAshapurna Devi was an eminent woman literateur of Bengal. She had no formal education. She was simply a housewife. But her passion for literature went a long way in shaping her literary self. She was born in a very conservative family but it never was a hindrance to her literary practices in private. She studied the Bengali Women’s plight…
ReadAurobindo Ghosh successfully competed in the ICS examination but did not join the alien Government’s service to devote himself to the freedom struggle (1902-1910). He retired from politics and went to Pondicherry where he stayed till the last day of his life. Amongst his famous writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri. When scepticism had…
ReadProfessor Benoy Kumar Sarkar was a versatile genius with an original vision of his own. A Bengali by birth, he transcended the limits of his country and culture, thoroughly became cosmopolitan in outlook and knew the actualities of Asia and Europe in their fundamentals as few. Ramakrishna cannot be identified with the movement for any particular…
ReadFormerly known as Bhawani Charan Bandyopadhyaya, he was a classmate of Narendranath Datta (later Swami Vivekananda) at the General Assembly’s Institution. He later came in contact with Sri Ramakrishna and Keshub Chandra Sen. He turned away from Hinduism to first become a Protestant and later a Catholic, when he started Sophia in 1894. He also started Swaraj and Sandhya, and…
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