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Ramakrishna was sent to the village school where he learned to read and write, but had an aversion towards arithmetic and didn't progress beyond simple addition, multiplication and division. He read the Ramayana , the Mahabharata and other religious books with devotion.
The first volume (1902) was preceded by a small booklet in English called A Leaf from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1897). [8] After the death of Ramakrishna, the growing public recognition of him encouraged Gupta to make his diary public. M thought that his was an important medium for public dissemination of Ramakrishna's ideas.
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is an English translation of the Bengali religious text Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita by Swami Nikhilananda.The text records conversations of Ramakrishna with his disciples, devotees and visitors, recorded by Mahendranath Gupta, who wrote the book under the pseudonym of "M." [1] The first edition was published in 1942.
Hare Krishna (Maha Mantra) in the Devanagari (devanāgarī) script. Hare Krishna (Maha Mantra) in the Bengali language. The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Mahā-mantra (lit. ' Great Mantra '), is a 16-word Vaishnava mantra mentioned in the Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa Upaniṣad. [1]
Keshabchandra Sen's Paramahamsa Deber Ukti (1878) is the earliest known work on Ramakrishna. [14] Keshab also publicized Ramakrishna's teachings in the journals of his religious movement New Dispensation over a period of several years, [15] which was instrumental in bringing Ramakrishna to the attention of a wider audience, especially the Bhadralok (English-educated classes of Bengal) and the ...
Notes from historian K. V. Krishna Ayyar [9] Brahmin Raja of Tirumanasseri ceded Ponnani to the zamorin as the price for his protection from Valluvanad and Perumpatappu (Cochin) [9]: 101-102 . Tradition says that the zamorin, despair for success at Tirunavaya, sought divine help by propitiating the Tirumandhamkunnu Bhagavati [9]: 101-102 .
Niranjan Dhar and Narasimha P. Sil reject the idea of supernatural elements in Ramakrishna's trance and consider it as epileptic seizure. [11]Walter G. Neevel and Bardwell L. Smith [12] argue that Ramakrishna's ability to easily enter into trances was largely due to "his esthetic and emotional sensitivity — his capacity to so appreciate and identify with beauty and harmony in what he saw and ...
"By the water [ke] near the lake [vārāśau] there was a distinguished city (named Dvārakā) equipped with horses, a place of (learned men) who had carried off the victory in the battle for knowledge [vidyā-vāda-ita-āji-irā], brilliantly [dīprā], (because) they had received Rādhā's lord (i.e. Krishna); (it was) the remotest frontier of knowledge and its fame widespread on earth [jyā ...