Mahatma Gandhi, in his preface to ‘Life of Sri Ramakrishna’, says:“The life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa is a life of religion in practice. His life enables is to see God face to face.”
In a beautiful song on Sri Ramakrishna in Bengali, composed by the late Kazi Nazru Islam, the revolutionary Muslim poet of West Bengal, the poet sees the beginning of the Satya Yuga or the Golden Age in him.
Satya-yuger punya smriti
Kalite anile, tumi tapas
“You brought to this Kali Yuga, O ascetic, the holy memory of Satya Yuga.”In his ‘Life of Ramakrishna’, the French thinker Romain Rolland introduced Sri Ramakrishna as ‘The consummation of two thousand years of the spiritual life of three hundred million people’.
In Sri Ramakrishna we can see today what Bertrand Russell demands of modern men. Namely, the flowering of knowledge into wisdom, without which, as he expresses it, increase of knowledge will be increase of sorrow.
