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Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and CrossCultural Philosophy of Religion,Used
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Sri Ramakrishna is widely known as a nineteenthcentury Indian mystic who affirmed the harmony of all religions on the basis of his richly varied spiritual experiences and eclectic religious practices, both Hindu and nonHindu. In Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality, Ayon Maharaj argues that Sri Ramakrishna was also a sophisticated philosopher of great contemporary relevance.Through a careful study of Sri Ramakrishna's recorded oral teachings in the original Bengali, Maharaj reconstructs his philosophical positions and analyzes them from a crosscultural perspective. Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual journey culminated in the exalted state of "vijana," his term for the "intimate knowledge" of God as the Infinite Reality that is both personal and impersonal, with and without form, immanent in the universe and beyond it. This expansive spiritual standpoint of vijana, Maharaj contends, opens up a new paradigm for addressing central issues in crosscultural philosophy of religion, including divine infinitude, religious pluralism, mystical experience, and the problem of evil.Sri Ramakrishna's vijanabased religious pluralismwhen grasped in all its subtletyproves to have major philosophical advantages over dominant Western models. Moreover, his mystical testimony and teachings not only cut across longstanding debates about the nature of mystical experience but also bolster recent defenses of its epistemic value. Maharaj further demonstrates that Sri Ramakrishna's unique response to the problem of evil resonates strongly with Western "soulmaking" theodicies and contemporary theories of skeptical theism. A pioneering interdisciplinary study of one of India's most important philosophermystics, Maharaj's book is essential reading for scholars and students in philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, and Hindu studies.
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