Whether Bhagavan Shri Krishna was born at all we are not sure; and Avataras like Buddha and Chaitanya are monotonous; Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is the latest and the most perfect -- the concentrated embodiment of knowledge, love, renunciation, catholicity, and the desire to serve mankind.
So where is anyone to compare with him? He must have been born in vain who cannot appreciate him! My supreme good fortune is that I am his servant through life after life. A single word of his is to me far weightier than the Vedas and the Vedanta.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Swami Shivananda from US (1894)
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