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The Vedanta Kesari
|April 2022
Swami Chetanananda's book offers a sensorial guide to a written narrative of Sri Ramakrishna's life and legacy. It operates in a double-barrel fashion and provides a lucid visual rendering of Sri Ramakrishna's life while at the same time gently guiding the reader towards a more profound visual history of the Bengal landscape.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA A DIVINE LIFE IN PICTURES by Swami Chetanananda Published by Vedanta Society of St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Available at Advaita Ashrama, 5 Dehi Entally Road, Kolkata - 700 014. Email: mail@advaitaashrama.org. Hardbound, 2021, pp.232, Rs. 1200.
It sets up the social history of the rural and urban Bengal geography as a background to allow us to appreciate the emergence of Sri Ramakrishna. For a discerning reader, it provides a threefold experience: a) as a lucid biography of Sri Ramakrishna which in itself is rather a humbling and sacred experiential gain for the devotee, b) as a pictorial representation that often acts as a sensorial guide to the reminiscent seekers, c) as a social and cultural-historical record that moves between the spatio-temporal aspects of the macro society and Sri Ramakrishna.
Beginning with his childhood, the book unfolds his journey through lucid text (with many exciting anecdotes) accompanied by more than 600 beautiful photographs and images that paint a rather pretty picture in the readers' minds. In a way, it allows the readers to have several reflective moments by enabling them to visualize the narrative and sets them up to imagine the contexts as the narrative unfolds.
This story is from the April 2022 edition of The Vedanta Kesari.
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