Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-168).

Four spiritual guides, four classic textstimeless wisdom for our complicated world introduced by one of today's great teachers of spirituality. Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Ramakrishna: four of the world's most interesting and challenging spiritual masters. The core of their most important teachingsalong with annotations from expert scholars and introductions from Andrew Harvey, one of the great spiritual thinkers of our timenow are all in one beautiful volume. A Walk with Four Spiritual Guides contains selections from four classic texts: Bhagavad Gita (Krishna), Dhammapada (Buddha), The Gospel of Thomas (Jesus) and Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Ramakrishna.) The selections focus on the inspiring themes of devotion and selfless action; serenity and the mind; mysticism and the individual's search for answers; and the direct path to the Divine. Andrew Harvey's warm and personal introduction to each guide offers his own experiences of learning from their wisdom.,--Amazon.com description