biography
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Ramakrishna
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originally Gadadhar Chatterjee
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pronunciation:
[ramakrishna]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–86)
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| biography:
| Hindu religious teacher, born in the Hooghly district of Bengal, E India, the son of a poor Brahmin family with little formal education. He became a priest at Dakshineswar Kali temple, near Kolkata (Calcutta), eventually forming his own religious order. He believed in self-realization and God-realization - expressing God by the way one lives and worships - and taught that all religions were different paths to the same goal. His most noteworthy disciple was Vivekananda. Several books of his sayings were later published by his followers. |
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