Ramakrishna Paramahansa, born on 18 February 1836, was
an Indian Hindu mystic, saint and considered as an avatar by many in 19th
century Bengal. Sri Ramakrishna experienced spiritual ecstasies from a young
age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion
toward the Goddess Kali, Tantra (shakta), Vaishnava (bhakti), and Advaita
Vedanta. As a priest at the Dakshineshwar Kali Temple, his mystical temperament
and ecstasies gradually gained him widespread acknowledgement, attracting to
him various spiritual teachers, social leaders, lay followers and eventually
disciples. Reverence and admiration for him among Bengali elites led to his
chief disciple Swami Vivekananda founding the Ramakrishna Math, which
provides spiritual training for monastics and householder devotees and the
Ramakrishna Mission to provide charity, social work and education.
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