Download or read book FOOTFALLS... Swami Gambhirananda and Other Journeys written by Bibhas De and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swami Gambhirananda (1899 - 1988), a noted Hindu monk, was the eleventh President of the worldwide monastic-philanthropic order of the Ramakrishna Mission, better known in the West as the Vedanta Society. He was a prolific scholar and a spiritual teacher and an indefatigable leader. But these only describe the outward man. His inner life was one of calm and continuous meditation. It has been said that most of the time he was carrying on a mental conversation with those spiritual masters of whose lives he was a chronicler.This book is about the life and the labors of the remarkable man. But there is more. Seen in the light of his life, the book follows many other individuals - unknown everyday people and persons of note - the author finds similarly remarkable. In the end, here is a modern-day exploration of a soaring of the human mind as old as man himself: Spirituality.