The devotees and admirers of Sri Ramakrishna who would like to know more about his daily life and as to how he was seen by his relatives and friends, people of other faiths, leaders of contemporary society, and by the common people of his time, will find this book to be of great value. It is an impressive collection of accounts and reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna by his disciples, relatives, friends, and acquaintances. They have described, often in intimate detail, some of the lesser-known aspects of Sri Ramakrishna's God-intoxicated life. This book will bring the reader closer to one who has been aptly described as a great spiritual phenomenon of our time.
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death
-Swami Vivekananda