Two Saints

The life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa enables us to see God face to face Gandhiji wrote. Similarly when someone in his circle was distraught the Mahatma sent him to spend time at the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi. The Paramahamsa and the Maharshi have been among the greatest spiritual figures of our country. They have transformed the lives of and have been a solace to millions. Their peak mystic experience is what we yearn to have. But what if several of the experiences they had occur in other circumstances alsoWith the rigour and painstaking research that mark all his work Shourie probes the lives of two of Indias greatest spiritual masters in the light of the breathtaking advances in neuroscience as well as psychology and sociology. The result is a book of remarkable vigour an examination and ultimately reconciliation of science and faith as also of seemingly antagonistic irreconcilable worldviews.