Ramakrishna and His Disciples

Christopher Isherwood's biography of the nineteenth-century Bengali mystic Ramakrishna, who experienced ecstatic visions of the divine and taught that all religions are valid paths to the same God. The book traces Ramakrishna's spiritual development, his relationships with major disciples including Swami Vivekananda, and the founding of the Ramakrishna Mission that carried his teachings to the West.