Sri Ramakrishna was born in 1863 in West Bengal. In a brief period of fifty years, he experienced the spiritual realizations that the human race had during its entire past. Based on those realizations, he taught not only the various religious truths that he had himself verified but also the eternally existent harmony of all religions.
In his own lifetime he gathered a few disciples who later formed the nucleus of the Ramakrishna Order, which has now grown into a world-wide organization. Its first monastery had a humble and austere beginning in a small rented dilapidated house in Kolkata. Read More