Birth and childhood of Ramakrishna

Ramkrishna Paramahamsa, a prominent Indian Bengali composer, philosopher and religious leader of the nineteenth century. In his religious thought, Ramakrishna Mission was founded by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda. In his disciple's community, even in his modern fame, he was also worshiped as an avatar of God.
Ramkrishna Paramahamsa was born in a poor Brahmin family of West Bengal, a poor Vaishnavite. He started worshiping Kali at Dakshineswar Kalibari.
According to other religious beliefs, especially in Islam and Christianity, pursuit of him leads to the world of perception as "as much as possible".
From the middle of the 1870s to the educated intellectuals in western education, he became the central character of the Hindu Renaissance.
A group of followers followed them in 1886, after the death of Ramkrishna, they took up sannyasa and continued their work.
The leader was Swami Vivekananda.
In 1893, Vivekananda reached the religious gathering of the Western religions in Chicago, to make his religious views public in the West.
The Ramakrishna movement is considered as one of India's Renaissance Movement. In 2008, there are 166 branches of Ramkrishna Mission in India and outside of India. The head office of this organization is located at Belur Math in Howrah, West Bengal.

Birth and childhood

Ramkrishna Paramahamsa was born in 1836 in the village of Kamarpukur in Arambagh subdivision of Hooghly district of West Bengal, in a poor religious conservative Brahmin family. He is the fourth and last child of his father, Khudiram Chatterjee and mother Chandanbari Devi.
Immediately before his birth, he visited the pilgrimage in Guaya and appealed to Kshudiram Gadadhara Vishnu in a dream. That is why he named the newborn Gadadhar.
Gadadhar, known as Gadi, was very dear to his villagers in his childhood. He had charisma in drawing and clay figures. Although he was not meditating on formal education.



Although he was indifferent to the educational system of the Pathsala, he did not have any interest in learning new things. He also achieved perfection on jatra on the basis of knowledge, narrative and religious legend.
At the very young age of hearing the story of pilgrims, monks and village mythologists, Gadadhara earned the patronage in the Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagbad.
With the service of the sannyasis resting in Kamarpukur on Purir road, they listened carefully to their religious debates.
From the memories of Ramakrishna, it is known that in the age of six-seven years, there was a spiritual feeling in him. From this age of 20 years, this feeling of thinking became his casual affair.
In 1843, his elder brother Ramkumar took charge of his family. This incident deeply influenced Gadadhar. His desire for religious life is strong in his mind.
The lack of father brings him closer to his mother; He spent more time in the worship of the house and the house god; In the epic reading of the religious epitaphs
When Gadadhar was a teenager, financial difficulties arose in his family. Ramkumar opened a Sanskrit Toll in Calcutta and took the priestly scholarship. In 1852, Gadadhar entered Calcutta in recognition of his grandfather's help in the priesthood.

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