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| The inner sanctum of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, home of Ramakrishna. Credit: Prianxi |
I´m rather late to this controversy, but here you go...
Review of "Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali´s Child Revisited"
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| The inner sanctum of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, home of Ramakrishna. Credit: Prianxi |
I´m rather late to this controversy, but here you go...
Review of "Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali´s Child Revisited"
The fourth comment after the article contains absolutely priceless formulations, such as this one: "I used the word “shit” that Kripal’s enterprise dug into but concentrating on Ramakrishna’s posterior. The saint himself was obsessed with the anus and its contents."
ReplyDeleteAlthough I´m not a supporter of the Ramakrishna Mission, I have to say that they do give a more sympathetic impression than many other religious groups. Imagine an article like this in a Hare Krishna magazine! Not likely...
ReplyDeleteJeffrey Kripal is probably an interesting cat, all things considered, I mean he co-wrote a book with Whitley Strieber, who is arguably even crazier than Ramakrishna! :D
ReplyDeleteI un-ironically believe that Ramakrishna, Kripal and Strieber could have had an interesting conversation (in Bengali perhaps?), had the mad saint still been around...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.interpretingramakrishna.com/toc.html
ReplyDeleteIt seems the book is available on the web. OK, I had no idea. So now I have something to read for two weeks...or two days!
The foreword to "Interpreting Ramakrishna" is actually written by our old friend Huston Smith!
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