Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga

Record summary

Swami Saradananda’s multi-volume Bengali biography of Ramakrishna presents his life as a divine play and records visions, goddess encounters, spiritual teachers, and accounts of unusual religious states. It is a useful comparison lead for intermediary-being narratives because it combines remembered testimony, monastic interpretation, and theological framing within the Ramakrishna movement. Researchers should distinguish episodes attributed to Ramakrishna from later doctrinal explanations and from material borrowed from oral recollection. The work’s status is primarily devotional and institutional, not that of a neutral contemporaneous investigation.