The Child Who Could Not Stop Weeping for God
Before the world came to sit at his feet, there was a boy named Gadadhar, walking barefoot through the fields of Kamarpukur, weeping for something he could not name.
He Wept for God Before He Had Words for What God Was. Before the ecstasies. Before the temple. Before the world came to sit at his feet, there was a boy named Gadadhar, walking barefoot through the fields of Kamarpukur, weeping for something he could not name. He fainted at the sight of beauty. He forgot to eat. He disappeared into states of rapture that frightened his family and confounded his neighbors. No one had a word for what burned so constantly in his chest.
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He did not need one. This is the story the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna does not tell, the childhood, the village, the early fires of a soul that would one day illuminate an entire tradition. The Child Who Could Not Stop Weeping for God is a portrait not of a saint in marble, but of a boy utterly, helplessly alive to the divine. Drawn with tenderness and fidelity to the living tradition that has kept his memory luminous for generations, this book brings Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa back to the beginning, to Gadadhar, the child, and asks us to witness him there.
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