Ramakrishna Paramahansa

Ramakrishna Paramahansa

Ramakrishna was considered as a Divine Messenger who preached the ideals of Hindu religion through wit and wisdom. Born in a poor family at Kamarpukar in Bengal and known by the name of Gadadhar Sambhuchandra, he was called to be a priest at the age of seventeen in a newly erected temple of Kali at Dakshineswar. His extreme devotion to Goddess Kali developed to consider her as Mother.

When he was twenty four he was compelled to marry a young girl of six years old, but he used to consider her as Goddess Mother Kali and she also recognized that Ramakrishna had no physical ailments but suffered from spiritual ecstasy in the worship of Kali. Around the year 1864, a monk named Thotapuri initiated him into the order of Sanyasis and named him Ramakrishna. Under the blessings of Kali he remained a Sanyasi (a state of what is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi) for many years. He preached universal brotherhood without distinguishing between caste and creed of individuals, he believed in unity of all religions.

Of all his devotees and disciples, Swami Vivekananda became the mouth peace of his philosophy and a world-wide organization called the Ramakrishna Mission came into existence. The Mission has published many books in English on various topics related to the Hindu religion and Advaita philosophy. 

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