Sri Ramakrishna (1833-1886) was an Indian mystic, reformer, and saint who, in his own lifetime, came to be revered by people of all classes as a spiritual incarnation of God. Born in a rural Bengal village, Ramakrishna was the fourth of five children....

(1836–1886), Hindu religious leader. Ramakrishna, or more fully Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, was from Dakshineswar in Bengal, eastern India. A year after his early death a dozen of his disciples, led by Swami Vivekananda, formed a monastic...

(1836–86) a Bengali brahmin, most of his life settled as the priest of the goddess Kālī in her temple in , Calcutta, who gained the reputation of a saint, a realized mystic and a yogi accomplished in bhakti as well as jñāna...

RAMAKRISHNA (1834/6–1886) was a Hindu ecstatic and mystic, and to many Hindus a "supremely realized self" (paramahaṃsa) and an avatāra, or incarnation of the divine. Through his disciple, Swami Vivekananda, his gospel...

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bangla: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae) [1] was a Hindu...

This paper attempts first to define "modernity" within a Hindu context, using Religion in Modern India (Robert D. Baird, ed.) and Modern Religious Movements in India (J.N. Farquhar) as points of departure. Many of the Hindu thinkers studied by both the Baird and the...

Westerners have been interested in Ramakrishna (1836-86) since his best-known follower and founder of the Ramakrishna Movement, Swami Vivekananda, represented Hinduism at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Most of the interest, however, has been shown by people who were...