There are many who wants to know who is Adi Shakti or which is the Goddess Adi Shakti in Hinduism. Adi Shakti is the Mother Goddess who gives birth, nurtures, sustains and finally transforms all animate and inanimate in the universe. In nutshell, She is the energy that is manifest in everything. She is popularly referred as Goddess Shakti and she takes numerous forms to uphold dharma and protect Her devotees. Some of the most popular of her manifestations are Goddess Sati, Parvati, Durga and Kali. Adi Shakti is known by numerous names and all her incarnations are for restoring Dharma. There are also schools of thought that suggest that Goddess Lakshmi and Goddess Saraswati are manifestations of Adi Shakti. Another school of thought suggests that all women are incarnation of Adi Shakti.

Ramakrishna Paramhamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshineswar is yet another book on Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. This new book on one of the most widely written saints India traces the several contradictions of nineteenth-century Bengal that the man embodied – between his Vaishnava roots and Shakti worship; between bhakti and gyan; and between a guru and sadhaka (spiritual practitioner). Ramakrishna Paramhamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshineswar is written by Amiya P. Sen. From the flyer of the book Amiya P. Sen situates Sri Ramakrishna within the emerging social and cultural anxieties of the time as also the larger Hindu-Brahminical world that he was born into. This book also carries a brief but critical introduction to the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Ramakrishna’s vibrant theology that will be of interest to lay readers as well as those especially interested in the cultural and religious history of modern Bengal . Ramakrishna Paramhamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshi