Passage to Divinity: The Early Life of Sri Swami Ramdas

1955 second edition, Manager-Anandashram (Kanhangad, India), 5 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches tall pale blue hardcover, no dust jacket, dark blue lettering to front cover, illustrated with black-and-white duotone photographs, xii, 90 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with slight bumping to the upper tips. Boards are ever-so-slightly bowed. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~F~ [1.0P] An inspiring account of the evolution of a seeker to a saint. This chronicle of the pre-monastic life of Swami Ramdas, narrated by one of his earliest devotees, Sri Chandrasekhar, portrays the sequence of events that led Vittal Rao to snap all his worldly ties and evolve into Swami Ramdas. Swami Ramdas (1884-1963) was an Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim. He became a wandering ascetic in his late 30s and after attaining moksha while still alive established Anandashram in Kanhangad, Kerala. He is the author of several books, the most famous of which is the spiritual autobiography In Quest of God (1925).…