C Rajagopalachari on Sri Ramakrishna

(C Rajagopalachari is the former Governor General soon after India became a Republic in 1950)

It is no exaggeration to call Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings as Upanishad. A sage like the Rishis of old was born in our age. This was Ramakrishna Paramahamsa… Learned men with a command of language can do and write excellent essays and discourses. But these writings lack true life. Sri Ramakrishna was a mahatma who saw God in his heart and in all things in the world outside.

He saw Him in all things with the same certainty and strength of feeling with which we see each other,,, There is a peculiar power in the words of those who lead a godly life. They have a force which the exhortations of merely learned and intellectual men do not have. When a maharsi talks, it is his whole life that speaks through him, not mere intellect.

From: Sri Ramakrishna Upanishad by Rajagopalachari, Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, p.II