Sri Ramakrishna claimed to have verified something extraordinary: that practicing Islam, Christianity, and multiple Hindu paths each led him to the same encounter with the divine. Joto mot, toto path. As many opinions, so many paths.
This book is an attempt, honest about its limitations, to run the same experiment. Over fifteen years, the author attended services, study circles, and retreats across fourteen traditions, from a Sufi dargah in Delhi to a Sikh langar in Manchester to a Pentecostal revival meeting in Liverpool. He did not find what Ramakrishna found. What he found instead was a sharper question: what would it actually cost to stop being a seeker and become a practitioner?
A memoir of religious encounter for the spiritually curious who go broad rather than deep.
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Joy Bose
Joy Bose has maintained a practice across more than a dozen Buddhist traditions for over two decades, with particular involvement in the Nyingma Palyul lineage. Alongside this he has engaged seriously and over many years with a wide range of other religious traditions including Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism, and various streams of Christianity. He grew up in Lucknow in a Bengali Hindu household shaped by the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, and has lived and practised in both India and the United Kingdom. He writes on contemplative practice, comparative religion, and the inner life.
