Author: Lex Hixon
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 314
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788120812970
Description
This book is a dramatic retelling for contemporary westerners, of a series of encounters with the great Bengali sage Ramakrishna (1836-1886), who proclaimed the oneness of all religions and the worship of the blissful divine mother.
By turn playful, brilliant, tender and visionary, Rama-Krishna offers practical instruction, inspiration and trilling glimpses into his state of spiritual intoxication as he meets with devotees and visitors in his room beside the holy river Ganges.
COMMENTS:
“Hixon’s book emphasizes – from the vantage point of the knowledgeable, discerning westerner on the brink of the twenty-first century – the atmosphere that Ramakrishna created through his words, his deeds, and above all the mere fact of his spiritual presence.”
--- Huston Smith
“…as Hixon so accurately points out, ‘Ramakrishna is not a quaint person from an ancient culture, representing a Particular religious background, but an Einstein of the planetary civilization of the near future, a greenhouse for the future evolution of humanity.’ This book thus Contains the ‘Master-key’ that opens all cultures and hearts.”
--- Ken Wilber
“Dr. Hixon writes very well and in this re-creation has tried to make his ‘meetings with Ramakrishna’ as exciting for the present-day reader as they were for those privileged to meet Sri Ramakrishna, alive in the mid-part of the nineteenth century in Calcutta.”
--- Charles S.J. White
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Introduction by the Indian Edition
1. Initial Encounter – Visiting Dakshineswar Garden on the Ganges Near Calcutta
2. Face to Face with the Divine Dancer
3. Ancient Sage Meets Modern Pandit – Ramakrishna and Vidyasagar
4. From The God-Man’s Treasury of Secrets
5. The Taste of Sugar – Boating on the Ganges with Keshab Sen
6. One Hemp-Smoker Recognizes Another
7. The Sage opens a gap in the net on convention
8. The Bliss of Ramakrishna’s Birthday
9. The New Dispensation – Harmony of all Religions
10. Cry with an infinite cry – The master Responds to burning Questions
11. Timeless Man Meets Contemporary Man – Ramakrishna and Bankim Chandra
12. Ramakrishna Relates his intimate Experiences
13. Radha and Krishna in mystic union – The Festival at Panihati
14. Meeting Mother Sarada – Where There is Shiva, there is Shakti
15. The Master Expounds Advaita Vedanta
16. The Mystery of Narendra and The Vow of Spiritual Completion
17. Two Great Souls – Ramakrishna’s Last Meeting with Keshab Sen
18. The Paramahamsa Transmits Spiritual intensity – O Brother Madhusudana, Please Come!
19. The Ideal of Reminine Love
20. Avatara Meets Wandering Sadhu
21. The Mood of the Divine Child – Ramakrishna Breaks His Arm
22. Upward-Flowing Energy of Kundalini
23. Secret Rhythm of the Wisdom Mother
24. Special Worship Kali – The Master Meets a Young Actor
25. Great Swan Meets Orthodox Pandit - Ramakrishna and Shashadhar
26. Ramakrishna Sings The Tantric Transmission
27. The Master’s Terminal Illness – His Friendship with the Humanist, Dr. Sarkar
28. My Play is Over
29. The Master Transforms Dr. Sarkar
30. Ramakrishna and Lord Buddha – The Master Gives Away His Treasures
31. Universal Victory – The Passing Away of Ramakrishna
32. Divine Communion
Index