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 * PB Feb 2009, Sivakumar
 * Other Asias
 * South Africa journal

Translation

 * July 2008 PB (misconception in academic corridors)
 * Chronologically arranged, renowned book, Interpretive translation, RKs style of speaking is unique.

SV

 * SV was often leery of preaching that Ramakrishna was an avatara, often advising his fellow monks not overly on him or his miracles.

Nikhilananda deleted some of M's original commentary in his version, perhaps in order to reduce the five Bengali volumes into a single volume in English, but also because M was writing for Bengal and Nikhilananda was writing for Western culture.

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Sil's arguments have been disputed by Dr. Jean Openshaw and William Radice, and Amiya P. Sen.

Amiya.P.Sen writes that the projection of Ramakrishna as a Vedantin by Vivekananda and his numerous disciples is "testified" by "no less than Ramakrishna himself" and the Kathamrita.

Philosopher Lex Hixon writes that Ramakrishna's linguistic style was "unique even to those who spoke Bengali" and "It was not literally translatable into English or any other language." Hixon writes that Nikhilananda's Gospel is a "powerful rendering" of the Kathamrita into "dignified English".

However, Swami Atmajnanananda and Pravrajika Vrajaprana note that as of 1995, this book has been published in nine Bengali editions Kripal later wrote that his  "original claims of a conscious concealment" were "untenable."

Great Swan

 * Nikhilananda deleted some of M's original commentary in his version, perhaps in order to reduce the five Bengali volumes into a single volume in English, but also because M was writing for Bengal and Nikhilananda was writing for Western culture.


 * My study of Sanskrit and my doctoral dissertation at Columbia University on the Advaita Vedanta of Gaudapada, has enabled me to appreciate more deeply the Master's universal Vedantic approach.


 * Ramakrishna as We Saw Him by Swami Chetanananda, a recent compendium of authentic reminiscenes, many available before only in Bengali sources or in obscure English-language journals.


 * What may be controversial, however, is the literary style in which Ramakrishna's words are expressed. He speaks a language in some ways similar to that of a contemporary, highly educated person....Ramakrishna's words were not really simple after all.


 * He remembered every Sanaskrit scripture he heard chanted, even once, as well as every mystic hymn in Bengali and Hindi. In secular Western terms, he was a genius.


 * Kamini Kanchana explanation.