First impressions about Sri Ramakrishna by 38 people who met him. Includes newly translated material from the original Bengali.

The panorama of spiritual aspirants that passes before the reader varies from the hardcore rationalists like Swami Vivekananda to paragons of faith like Gopal Ma, and from ascetics and puritans like Nag Mahashay to Bohemians like Girish Chandra Ghosh.