Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Bengali mystic and priest at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple. He practiced Advaita Vedanta, Vaishnavism, Tantra, Christianity, and Islam and reported reaching samadhi through each. He could not touch money — it caused physical pain. His teachings were recorded by his disciple "M" in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Vivekananda was his most famous student.
On their voice
19th-century Bengal under British colonial rule. Ramakrishna was functionally illiterate in the scholastic sense but had direct mystical experience across traditions. Voice: direct, earthy, always in story and metaphor — like a child describing something they have actually seen, not a doctrine they have learned.
Talk to Ramakrishna.
Ask anything. In their own voice, from their own era, grounded in their own canon.