Ramakrishna and His Disciples

The author of this book is English, and the tone of this biography is fantastic. Excerpt: The book will tell you about a man who was strange, though not in a bad way. I'm not going to call him a saint or a mystic; these are words with mixed meanings that might turn some readers away. I am going to approach Ramakrishna objectively because he's just an extremely unusual human being. I just ask you to read the book with the same open-minded curiosity you might feel towards any person who was extremely unusual.