God Lived With Them: Life Stories of Sixteen Monastic Disciples of Sri Ramakrishna - Softcover

Swami Chetanananda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916356809 ISBN 13: 9780916356804

Publisher: Vedanta Society of St Louis, 1997

Synopsis

Ramakrishna’s incredible aptitude for inner experience and his discovery of the mystic unity of religions are well known. Here are the stories of the finest flowers of his spiritual garden. Five of Ramakrishna’s monastic disciples lived and worked in the West for periods of up to twenty-five years. They built bridges between the ancient and modern worlds and laid the foundation of India’s largest philanthropic and monastic organization.

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About the Author:

About the Author Swami Chetanananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, an author, and a spiritual teacher with students all over the world. He is the minister-in-charge of the Vedanta Society of St. Louis. He has written and translated more than two dozen books about the spiritual life, and he has collaborated in his writing with Huston Smith and Christopher Isherwood. Swami Chetananada has been teaching and writing about Vedanta in the United States for more than three of his four-plus decades as a monk. He came to the United States from Ramakrishna Order monasteries of the Himalayas and Calcutta. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Review:

...[contains] a subtle transformative power . . . a state of exquisite joy. ... in the company of sixteen spiritual giants.
-- Irene Petryszak, Yoga International

Intimate accounts of courageous lives... No spiritual library will be complete without this fascinating book. -- Light of Consciousness

One feels touched by the particular personality of each disciple. --American Vedantist

About this edition

• Publisher: Vedanta Society of St Louis
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0916356809
• ISBN 13: 9780916356804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656