THE UNITY OF BEING: THE CASE OF RAMAKRISHNA

Philosophical Questions

De: Boris Kriger

Narrado por: Daniel Pagone

This work invites the listener on a philosophical voyage to the outer edges of human consciousness. At its center stands Ramakrishna—not as a saint to be worshiped, nor as a religious teacher bound by tradition, but as a living paradox, a manifestation of the tension between the spirit’s form and its essence. He is presented not through the mist of legend or the reverence of devotees, but as the embodiment of the eternal struggle between experience and system, between the immediacy of revelation and the cold architecture of institutionalized faith.

Across chapters devoted to the body and ecstasy, to perception and the architecture of consciousness, to language and the abyss beyond it, the book investigates how sanctity and madness, psychosis and revelation, diagnosis and dogma, all turn out to be different masks of the same underlying epistemological conflict. Holiness itself becomes a question, not of belief, but of knowledge—a mode of knowing that cannot be contained by the instruments of science or the liturgies of religion.

This is not a hagiography and not a scientific monograph. It is a philosophical anatomy of sanctity, written where poetry and metaphysics meet and interlace. It contemplates mystical experience as a possible form of cognition, and madness as a path that, while dangerous, may open a door beyond the limits of reason. Ramakrishna is thus placed in the lineage of those possessed by truth—Buddha, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Nietzsche—beings through whom the world itself seemed to speak. They form a single current of prophetic revelation, in which man becomes not the author of wisdom, but its vessel.

Keywords
Ramakrishna, mysticism, consciousness, spirituality, metaphysics, enlightenment, divine unity

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