Kamarpukur, being a transit-point in well-established pilgrimage routes to Puri, brought him into contact with renunciates and holy men. The family shrine is on the left, birthplace temple on the rightĪlthough Ramakrishna attended a village school with some regularity for 12 years, he later rejected the traditional schooling saying that he was not interested in a "bread-winning education". The small house at Kamarpukur where Ramakrishna lived (centre). There has been some dispute about the origin of the name Ramakrishna, but there is ".evidence which proves beyond doubt that the name 'Ramakrishna' was given to him by his father." Ramakrishna confirmed this himself, as recorded in "M"s diaries, "I was a pet child of my father. The family was devoted to Hindu God Rama, and the male children of Khudiram and Chandramani were given names that started with Ram or Rama: Ramkumar, Rameswar, and Ramakrishna. Chandramani Devi is said to have had a vision of light entering her womb from (Yogider Shiv Mandir) Shiva's temple.
In Gaya his father Khudiram had a dream in which Bhagwan Gadadhara (a form of Vishnu), said that he would be born as his son. According to his followers, Sri Ramakrishna's parents experienced supernatural incidents and visions before his birth. His parents were Khudiram Chattopadhyay and Chandramani Devi. Kamarpukur was untouched by the glamour of the city and contained rice fields, tall palms, royal banyans, a few lakes, and two cremation grounds. Ramakrishna was born on 18 February 1836, in the village of Kamarpukur, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, India, into a very poor, pious, and orthodox Bengali Brahmin family.
Īs 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, Bengali elites, and lay followers he eventually taught disciples, who would later form the monastic Ramakrishna Order.
He held that the world’s various religious traditions represented “so many paths to reach one and the same goal." His followers came to regard him as an avatara, or divine incarnation, as did several prominent Hindu scholars of his day. Ramakrishna experienced spiritual ecstasies from a young age, and drew from several religious approaches, including devotion toward the Goddess Kali and observance of elements from Tantra, Bhakti, Vaishnava, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as dalliances with Christianity and Islam. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa ( Sanskrit pronunciation: Bengali pronunciation: ( listen), Ramkṛiṣṇo Pôromôhongśo, – 15 August 1886), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, was an Indian Hindu mystic and religious leader in 19th-century Bengal.
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