User:Goethean/Biographical sources

In 1993, Narasingha Sil wrote that Vivekananda had rejected the sincere biographies written by Ramakrishna's other followers. According to Sil, in place of the rustic ecstatic but authentic Gadadhar, Vivekananda deliberately fabricated the familiar Vedantin and messiah image of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa which was to act as a respectable image for Vivekananda's global Hindu evangelical mission.

In 1997, Malcolm McLean of Otago University argued that the Ramakrishna Movement has manipulated Ramakrishna's biographical documents, that the Movement has published them in incomplete and bowdlerized editions, that the Movement has "virtually suppressed" Ram Chandra Datta's Srisriramakrsna Paramahamsadever Jivanavrttanta, which he says "presents an altogether different picture of Ramakrishna," and that the Movement has "present[ed] a particular kind of explanation of Ramakrishna, that he was some kind of neo-Vedantist who taught that all religions are the same..."

Kripal says that The Great Master, Swami Jagananda's translation of the Lilaprasanga, was also bowdlerized.

Scholars have noted that Vivekananda's teachings has little to do with what Ramakrishna taught.

Sen notes that Muller's vacuous arguments became Vivekananda's hagiographic claims.