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Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886 [1]), also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, romanized: Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; pronounced [ramɔkriʂno pɔromoɦɔŋʃo] ⓘ; IAST: Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhay, [2] [3] [4] was an Indian Hindu mystic.
Sep 19, 2024 · Hindu religious leader, founder of the school of religious thought that became the Ramakrishna Order. Seeing God in everything and everyone, Ramakrishna believed that all religions lead to the same end. His ideas were often expressed in pithy parables. Learn more about Ramakrishna’s life and work.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1866, he became a priest at a recently dedicated temple to the Goddess Kali located near Calcutta on the Ganges River. It was built by a pious widow, Rani Rasmani. Ramakrishna became a full-time devotee to the goddess spending increasing amounts of time giving offerings and meditating on her.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was an Indian yogi during the 19th-century and the spiritual guru of Swami Vivekananda. Let's have a look at his life, teachings and contribution.
His first spiritual experience was very unique. It did not happen when he was sitting in a temple and meditating, or when he was reading the scriptures. It happened when as a young boy of seven or eight, he was walking along the paddy fields with a small bag of kurmuras around his neck.
At that moment, Ramakrishna created the sword and cut Kali down, becoming free from the Mother and the ecstasy of feeding off her. That is when he truly became a Paramahamsa, he became fully enlightened. Till then he was a lover, he was a devotee, he was a child to the Mother Goddess that he created.
Sri Ramakrishna’s life can be divided into two parts — the first, as a sadhaka, an experimenter in the field of religion, and second, as a guru, a teacher of humanity. As a sadhaka he was concerned with his search for God and had no time or mood to deal with people, to talk to them, and mix with them.
