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The Face of Silence

1926

The gray turrets and domes of the shrines the palatial halls and corridors and the long dark inmost sanctuary lit by scores of torches where the white-ventured priests arc seated meditating on Silence give one the feeling of nostalgia for the Unknown. [...] He paid a minimum of attention to rituals by insisting that in the inner shrine stood the Goddess Kali not as a dead fact but as a living symbol of man's spiitual experience." The symbolism of Kali means Time and Akale Beyond Time Immortality! She is the i\lothcr of the Universe as well as its de-"22 THE FACE OF SILENCE stroyer. [...] It was high and its windows gave on to the Ganges to the west to the gardens and the temple in the east. [...] The trees in the distance the boats and their boatmen in the middle of the river the birds coursing through the sky and the very sky itself sang possessed of the Divine Light. [...] But since Rama Krishna was busy performing the rites of the temple the newcomer had to wait till the afternoon when he joined the group of pilgrims who had come to be instructed by the young Master.
philosophy religion
Pages
262
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.142506
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii unknown view
Chapter I-Rama Krishna Monastery
1-7 unknown view
Chapter II-The Rama Krishna Legend
8-16 unknown view
Chapter III-Rama Krishna’s Early Life
17-35 unknown view
Chapter IV-Holy Man
36-56 unknown view
Chapter V-Rama Krishna and Other Religions
57-69 unknown view
Chapter VI-Orthodox Hindus and Rama Krishna
70-81 unknown view
Chapter VII-Rama Krishna and a Modern Social Reformer
82-103 unknown view
Chapter VIII-Rama Krishna and his Disciples
104-133 unknown view
Chapter IX-Rama Krishna and his Disciples
134-146 unknown view
Chapter X-Description of the Indescribable
147-163 unknown view
Chapter XI-A Recent Initiation
164-187 unknown view
Chapter XII-Holy Man or Incarnation of God
188-202 unknown view
Chapter XIII-Rama Krishna and a Wayward Soul
203-216 unknown view
Chapter XIV-Mahaprasthan or last Journey
217-223 unknown view
Chapter XV-Turyananda’s Conclusion
224-239 unknown view
Chapter XVI-Last Impression
240-255 unknown view

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