Tales Told By Sri Ramakrishna

Includes the following titles: Gopal and the Cowherd, The Pandit and the Milkmaid, The Learned Pandit Tales told by Sri Ramakrishna

Includes the following titles: Gopal and the Cowherd The Pandit and the Milkmaid The Learned Pandit Tales told by Sri Ramakrishna

This Collection, Probably The First Ever Of Its Kind, Of A Full Hundred Tales Culled From Sages Known And Unknown, Through Decades Of A Sustained Interest By Its Present Author, Should Prove As Revealing As They Have Proved For Centuries Past.

Sri Ramakrishna was a pastmaster in telling tales and parables to illustrate his lofty teachings. Many of his parables were drawn from ordinary domestic and social life, customary with the people who lived around him. Some he had devised on the model of Puranic stories. However, all of them have a humorous vein and bear witness to his consummate wit and keenness of observation. This book has a collection of 205 tales and parables of Sri Ramakrishna. Through them, he taught the learned and lay the deep truths of life that need to be imbibed and implemented. The book groups the tales and the parables under the themes and values they express to facilitate the readers to contemplate on their import.to contemplate on their import.

The gentle wit and wisdom of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa pervades this collection of tales. Drawing upon common weaknesses – arrogance, greed and narrow-mindedness among others – he makes us laugh even as we recognise some of our petty weaknesses.

A collection of the teachings of Ramakrishna, a great saint of India, told in the form of stories and parables.

The hypocrisy of the famous, the unquenchable greed of the rich, the smugness of the ignorant are often encountered in our everyday world. Yet, when Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa weaves them into a story, they make us laugh and alert us to our own weaknesses, setting us firmly on the road to being better human beings.