Ramakrishna's Naren and Naren's Ramakrishna

The first meeting of Sri Ramakrishna and Narendranath Datta in 1981 was an auspicious event in the history of religion. It is hard to say when Naren actually accepted Sri Ramakrishna as his guru, but as far as the master was concerned, the spiritual relationship was established at this first meeting at Dakshineswar, when he had touched Naren, stirring him to his inner depths. From that moment he had implicit faith in the disciple and bore him a great love.

There is hardly anything more fascinating in religious annals than the coming together of Master and Disciple. The book explores the divine relationship that existed between Sri Ramakrishna and Narendranath Dutta, who, in the fullness of time, became Swami Vivekananda.

Translated from the Bengali, Ramakrishna's Naren and Naren's Ramakrishna was originally serialized in the January through June 1978 issues of Prabuddha Bharata.