Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa[1836-1886]
Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was born in Kamarpukur in the Hoogly district of West Bengal in 1836. His original name was Gadhadar Chattopadhyaya. Ramakrishna started his career of spiritual disciplines and attainments as a devotee of the Goddess Kali. He was a saintly person who sought religious salvation in the traditional ways of renunciation, meditation, and devotion. In his search for religious truth or the realization of God, he lived with mystics of other faiths, Muslims and Christians. He emphasised that there were many roads to God and salvation. He argued that service of man was service of God, for man was the embodiment of God. He created a spiritual revolution. His disciple Swami Vivekananda popularised the great teachings of Sree Ramakrishna.
Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was born in Kamarpukur in the Hoogly district of West Bengal in 1836. His original name was Gadhadar Chattopadhyaya. Ramakrishna started his career of spiritual disciplines and attainments as a devotee of the Goddess Kali. He was a saintly person who sought religious salvation in the traditional ways of renunciation, meditation, and devotion. In his search for religious truth or the realization of God, he lived with mystics of other faiths, Muslims and Christians. He emphasised that there were many roads to God and salvation. He argued that service of man was service of God, for man was the embodiment of God. He created a spiritual revolution. His disciple Swami Vivekananda popularised the great teachings of Sree Ramakrishna.
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