Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita

Record summary

Mahendranath Gupta’s Bengali record of Ramakrishna’s conversations and experiences, later translated into English as The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, describes visions involving Hindu deities, spiritual teachers, and other intermediary figures. It matters comparatively because it preserves a modern devotional account in which visionary beings are interpreted through established Hindu categories rather than angelology in the Abrahamic sense. The text’s chronology, editorial shaping, and translation history are important uncertainties: much of the material was written retrospectively, and later readers disagree about how literally to treat the reported experiences.