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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lex HixonPublisher: Larson Publications Imprint: Larson Publications Dimensions: Width: 23.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.509kg ISBN: 9780943914800ISBN 10: 0943914809 Pages: 314 Publication Date: 25 February 1997 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsInitial Encounter; Face to Face with the Divine Dancer; Ancient Sage Meets Modern Pandit; From the God-Man's Treasury of Secrets; The Taste of Sugar; One Hemp-Smoker Recognises Another; The Sage Opens a Gap In the Net of Convention; The Bliss of Ramakrishna's Birthday; The New Dispensation; Cry with An Infinite Cry; Timeless Man Meets Contemporary Man; Ramakrishna Relates His Intimate Experiences; Radha and Krishna In Mystic Union; Meeting Mother Sarada; The Master Expounds Advaita Vedanta; The Mystery of Narendra and the Vow of Spiritual Completion; Two Great Souls; The Paramahamsa Transmits; The Ideal Op Feminine Love; Avatara Meets Wandering Sadhu; The Mood of the Divine Child; Upward-Flowing Energy of Kundalini; Secret Rhythm of the Wisdom Mother; Special Worship of Kali; Great Swan Meets Orthodox Pandit; Ramakrishna Sings the Tantric Transmission; The Master's Terminal Illness; My Play is Over; The Master Transforms Dr. Sarkar; Ramakrishna and Lord Buddha; The Mood of Formlessness; Universal Victory; Divine Communion.ReviewsA remarkable portrait of a most remarkable spiritual teacher.Though little known in the West, Ramakrishna (1836-86) is generally revered in India as a direct incarnation of God, similar in some ways to Christ. Rather than write a standard biography of this Hindu mystic who embraced and, reportedly, embodied the essence of all major world religions - a biography like Richard Schiffman's Sri Ramakrishna (1989) - Hixon (Coming Home, 1978) here attempts a more daunting task: to re-create the experience of observing, over the course of years, a man who has attained the goal of spiritual evolution. To do this, the author draws on numerous eyewitness accounts of the sage, smoothly blending them into the voice of a disciple who observes his Master lecturing, conversing, playing, singing, dancing, and slipping into profound mystical ecstasies. There is no skepticism in this devotional telling but, rather, a pervasive sense of wonder and even rapture that Hixon makes concrete through tight physical detail, as in this deathbed scene: Ramakrishna's charming smile and the fresh white cloth around his waist shine in the flickering lamplight. His honey-colored skin, dulled by illness, seems to regain its extraordinary luster....The room is being filled with light....It is like a lightning flash, prolonged for several minutes. The pressure is unbearable.... There is also much inspired exposition by Ramakrishna of religious principles and practices, making this account of great interest to those spiritually inclined but occasionally a tough go for those more interested in Ramakrishna's incandescent character than in his teachings. You don't have to share Hixon's conviction in order to appreciate his achievement in evoking - artfully and with considerable emotional power - what it might be like to encounter, as Ramakrishna put it, a human emanation of Divine Reality. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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