Excerpt: This is the story of a phenomenon. I will begin by calling him simply that, rather than "holy man,""Mystic,""or saint;" all emotive words with mixed associations which may attract some readers, repel others. A phenomenon is always a fact, and object of experience. That is how I shall try to approach Ramakrishna... I only ask that you approach Ramakrishna with the same open-minded curiosity you might feel for any unusual human being: a Julius Caesar, a Catherine of Siena, a Leonarda da Vinci.
--- Christopher Isherwood unfolds a fantastic story with a calm finesse. - New York Times
Description from The Reader's Catalog
A good introduction to the thought of the 19th-century visionary and exponent of religious unity by the author of Goodbye to Berlin and My Guru and His Disciple