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ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya

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Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood, the Anglo-American novelist and playwright, was born in England. He deliberately failed in his tripos and left Cambridge without a degree in 1925. For the next few years he lived in the home of the violinist Andre Mangeot while working as secretary to Mangeot’s string quartet. With his first two novels, All the Conspirators (1928)…

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Claude Alan Stark

Claude Alan Stark was once a research scholar in world religions, and a Chairman of a development company in Africa. He had his under graduation at the Clark University followed by graduation in finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Babson College. He was attached to finance and government for eight years in Boston and Washington D. C.…

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D. S. Sarma

D. S. Sarma joined the profession of letters as a lecturer in English and served several Govt. Colleges of Madras. Afterwards he became a Principal. He was not a professional philosopher but philosophy was in his blood. He was well versed in Vivekananda-Ramakrishna literatures and wrote many articles on them. He had books in English on the Gita and…

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Dalai Lama

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was born to a peasant family in Northern Tibet on 6th July, 1935. In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is believed to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion. When the Dalai Lama was a teenager, he became the head of the Tibetan Govt. in their fight against the occupying forces…

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Ernest Cary Brown

In 1916 E. C. Brown was born in Bakersfield, California. After graduating with honours from the University of California, Berkley, he pursued studies in Economics at Berkley and latter at the Harvard University. But the World War II had interrupted his studies, and Brown served as an economist at the War Production Board in 1940-41. From 1942 to 1947…

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Friedrich Max Muller

Friedrich Max Muller was a German by birth. He became the greatest of the European Indologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Max Muller was one of the first to evaluate properly the greatness of Ramakrishna Paramahansa and give wide publicity of his warm admiration for Ramakrishna in the West. Many times the question has been asked…

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Francis Younghusband

Sir Francis Younghusband was a British Army officer, explorer and spiritualist. He is remembered chiefly for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia and his writings on the subject. Not content with receiving devotees, Ramakrishna would also go forth to find other seekers after God and ascertain how far they had progressed towards their goal.…

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George C. Williams

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…

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Govind Ballabh Pant

Govind Ballabh Pant had an illustrious political career. He did his graduation in Law from the Allahabad University and joined the Bar at Nainital. Subsequently he was involved in political activities and became the President of the Congress Party of his province. He was offered the Chief Ministership of Northern India in 1937 and he resigned in 1939 as…

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Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer. He was born on a firm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a fifth grade education. After studying at home and covering crime stories as a Newspaper Reporter, Shapley returned to complete a six year high school Programme in only two years graduating as class Valedictorian.…

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