Mind-Benders of Hindu History
While Thoreau read the Gita at Walden Pond, he was a boy in Bengal
When Henry David Thoreau sat reading the Bhagavad Gita at Walden Pond (1845–1847), and when his book Walden appeared in 1854, Sri Ramakrishna — born in 1836 in the Bengal village of Kamarpukur — was first a child of about nine and then a young man of eighteen, living halfway around the world.
How we know
Sri Ramakrishna b. 18 Feb 1836, Kamarpukur, Bengal; Thoreau (1817–1862) lived at Walden Pond 4 Jul 1845 – 6 Sep 1847 and cites the Bhagavad Gita in Walden, published 1854; Emerson 1803–1882.
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