Ramakrishna Paramahamsa 

1. Born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (18 Februari 1836- 16 August 1886)

2. Birthplace Kamarpukur, West Bengal, India.

3. A priest of the Dahshineswar Kali temple, Calcutta.

4. His wife and spiritual counterpart, Saradha Devi (1853- 1920).

5. His spiritual teachers are :-

   a. Bhairavi Brahmani

       -Tantrism - focus on worship of shakti.
         It see all aspects of the natural world as manifestation of divine shakti.

   b. Totapuri 

       - Advaita Vedanta - a philosophy which emphasis on non dualism. 

        "Brahman alone is real, and the world is illusory; I have no separate               existence; I am that Brahman alone."

6. Totapuri initiated Ramakrishna into Sanyasa.

7.Ramakrishana's teaching - 'All the religion lead to the same God'.

8. His religious thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission.

9. Most prominent disciples is Swami Vivekananda ( 1863- 1902).

                                                                Monastic disciples

                                             Swami Vivekananda (sitting at the centre)