Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, this beautiful English translation from the French presents the story of Sri Ramakrishna in a captivating manner and is used in many colleges as an introduction to the saint. Writes Romain Rolland - 'I am bringing to Europe, as yet unaware of it, the fruit of a new autumn, a new message of the Soul, the symphony of India, bearing the name of Ramakrishna'.
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
Late Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge