Swami Vivekananda                           

Review of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

N. Ghosh

The Indian Nation, 19 May, 1902:

Ramakrishna Kathamrita by M., Part I is a work of singular value and interest. He has done a kind of work which no Bengali had ever done before, which, so far as we are aware, no native of India has ever done. It has been done only once in history, namely by Boswell. But then the immortal biography is only the life of a scholar and a kindhearted man. This Kathamrita, on the other hand, is the record of the sayings of a Saint. What is the wit or even the worldly wisdom of the great Doctor by the side of the Divine teachings of a genuine devotee. Its value is immense. We say nothing of the sayings themselves - for the character of the teacher and the teaching is well-known. They take us straight to the truth and not through any metaphysical maze. Their style is Biblical in simplicity. What a treasure would it have been to the world if all the sayings of Sri Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Nanak and Chaitanya could have been thus preserved.