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| 1. Mahendranath Gupta (M), The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, tr. Swami Nikhilananda, Two volumes. Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math |
2. Swami Saradananda, Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, Translated by Swami Chetanananda, Two volumes. Vedanta Society of St Louis.
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| 3. Life of Sri Ramakrishna. Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama |
| 4. Christopher Isherwood, Ramakrishna and His disciples. Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama |
| 5. Romain Rolland, The Life of Ramakrishna, tr. E. K. Malcolm Smith. Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama |
| The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Online |
| Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel in Bengali) Online |
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About The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna:
"Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity. To Western readers, it is true, this fidelity and this wealth of detail are sometimes a trifle disconcerting; for the social, religious and intellectual frames of reference within which Sri Ramakrishna did his thinking and expressed his feelings were entirely Indian. But after the first few surprises and bewilderments, we begin to find something peculiarly stimulating and instructive about the very strangeness and, to our eyes, the eccentricity of the man revealed to us in "M's" narrative. What a scholastic philosopher would call the "accidents" of Ramakrishna's life were intensely Hindu and therefore, so far as we in the West are concerned, unfamiliar and hard to understand -- its "essence," however, was intensely mystical and therefore universal. To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality is in itself a liberal education in humility, tolerance and suspense of judgement. We must be grateful to the translator for his excellent version of a book so curious and delightful as a biographical document, so precious, at the same time, for what it teaches us of the life of the spirit."
- Aldous Huxley, who was and English writer, was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, andhighly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of visual communication and sight-related theories. 
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