The Weeping God-Child: An Invitation to Sri Ramakrishna
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The sky over the paddy fields had gone the color of a temple bell struck at midnight — a deep, bruised black, the kind of cloud that Bengal grows only in the weeks before Ashadh breaks into full monsoon. Beneath it the young rice stood impossibly green, and along the narrow raised footpath that threaded between the fields, a boy of six walked with a basket of puffed rice balanced against his hip, on his way to the neighboring hamlet of Anur, where his sister had married into a family that always fed him too much and sent him home happier than he had left. His name was Gadadhar. Chattopadhyay by clan, Gadai to everyone in Kamarpukur who loved him, which was everyone in Kamarpukur. He had stopped, as children do, to watch something. Above the black wall of cloud a line of white cranes had appeared, flying low and unhurried, their wings catching what little light still leaked from the west. Against that sky they were almost unbearably white — not the white of paper or of rice but a white that seemed to come from somewhere behind the ordinary world and shine through a crack in it.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa from beginning to enduring memory.
- The Boy and the Cranes
- A Village That Held a Universe
- The Temple by the River
- Every Door He Knocked On
- The Family That Gathered Around Him
- What He Actually Said About God
- The Wound and the Passing
- The River Still Running
- If You Want to Sit Closer
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