Shri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa (1834 – 1886) was born in Kumarpukur village in the Hoogly village of Bengal.
His early name was Shuddirama Gadhadhar Chatterjee.
He was a priest in the Dakshineswar Kali temple. So he is called the Saint of Dakshineswar.
The most famous disciple of Ramakrishna was Vivekananda (1861 – 1903).
Vivekananda was born in a Kayastha family of Calcutta.
He attended the Parliament of Reigions at Chicago in 1893, September 11.
He was invited to the Congress of the History of Religions at Paris in 1900.
He founded the Ramakrishana Mission on Ist May 1897.
1899 the Matha or the centre of the mission was shifted to Belur.
He started two papers – the monthly Prabudha Barat in English and Udbodhana a Bengali fortnightly.
He is called the‘patriot saint of India’.
He was also described as a ‘‘Cyclonic Hindu’’.
In 1898 Sister Nivedita, (Margaret Elizebth Noble) an Irish lady was initiated to brahmacharya by Vivekananda.

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