The Ramakrishna Mission’s Post-Independence Interpretations of Tantra and Mysticism

Record summary

The Ramakrishna Math and Mission continued publishing biographies, lectures, and studies of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, and Vivekananda after independence. These materials discuss Ramakrishna’s Kali devotion, tantric disciplines, visionary experience, and religious pluralism while often disciplining or reinterpreting miracle traditions. The lead is useful for comparing a modern reform institution’s presentation of esoteric experience with vernacular hagiography. Publication dates, institutional editing, and differences between eyewitness reminiscence and later devotional biography are central uncertainties.