Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংসদেব
Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar
Religion	Hinduism
Founder of	Ramakrishna Order
Philosophy	Advaita Vedanta, Bhakti, Tantra
Personal
Nationality	Indian
Born	Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (1836-02-18)18 February 1836 Kamarpukur, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in West Bengal, India)
Died	16 August 1886(1886-08-16) (aged 50) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Spouse	Sarada Devi
Guru	Totapuri
Disciple(s)	Swami Vivekananda and others
Honors	Paramahamsa

He is born in vain who, having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস)  Ramkṛiṣṇo Pôromôhongśo ; 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), born Gadadhar Chatterjee or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bengali: [Gôdadhor Chôṭṭopaddhae]), was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th-century. Ramakrishna was given to spiritual ecstacies from a young age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the goddess Kali, Tantra, Vaishnava bhakti, and Advaita Vedanta. Admiration for him amongst Bengali elites led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda.

Ramakrishna was born on 17 February 1836, in the village of Kamarpukur, in the Hoogli district of West Bengal, into a very poor, pious, and orthodox Brahmin family. Kamarpukur was untouched by the glamour of the city and contained rice fields, tall palms, royal banyans, a few lakes, and two cremation grounds. His parents were Khudiram Chattopadhyay and Chandramani Devi. According to his followers, Ramakrishna's parents experienced supernatural incidents and visions before his birth. In Gaya his father Khudiram had a dream in which Lord Gadadhara (a form of Vishnu), said that he would be born as his son. Chandramani Devi is said to have had a vision of light entering her womb from Shiva's temple.