One of the most ardent non-monastic devotees of Sri Ramakrishna was the celebrated Bengali playwright & producer Girish Chandra Ghosh. It is not well known that Chunibala Devi, who played the old woman in Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" was also a member of Girish's troupe in her younger days.
Ray himself, though an agnostic, designed the book cover for Achintya Kumar Sengupta's 4 volume Bengali work "Parampurush Ramakrishna." Obviously he was aware of his teachings, as evinced by his dialogue in his "Abhijan", where, of all people, an unscrupulous shady character quotes the Sage's words as "all the attractions in the world being due to 'woman & gold'".
Habu Dutt, a cousin of Swami Vivekananda, (who took Sri Ramakrishna's teachings all over the world), was one of the gurus of Ustad Allauddin Khan, the teacher of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Both Habu Dutt & Allauddin Khan were also involved in the orchestra of Girish Chandra Ghosh's troupe.
Ray himself, though an agnostic, designed the book cover for Achintya Kumar Sengupta's 4 volume Bengali work "Parampurush Ramakrishna." Obviously he was aware of his teachings, as evinced by his dialogue in his "Abhijan", where, of all people, an unscrupulous shady character quotes the Sage's words as "all the attractions in the world being due to 'woman & gold'".
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