Abstract
This chapter outlines Sri Ramakrishna’s overall philosophical framework. Militating against narrow sectarian interpretations of Sri Ramakrishna’s philosophical teachings, Maharaj argues that Sri Ramakrishna’s philosophy is best characterized as “Vijñāna Vedānta,” a resolutely nonsectarian worldview—rooted in his own mystical experience of vijñāna—that harmonizes apparently conflicting religious faiths, sectarian philosophies, and spiritual disciplines. Maharaj first delineates five interpretive principles that he employs throughout the book in order to reconstruct Sri Ramakrishna’s philosophical views. He then elaborates the six main tenets of Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna Vedānta. On the mystical basis of vijñāna, Sri Ramakrishna affirms that both the impersonal nondual Brahman of Advaitins and the loving personal God of theists are equally real aspects of one and the same Infinite Reality.
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