Tag: Advaita Vedānta
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Ramakrishna Paramahamsa : The Eternal Mystic
Ramakrishna was born as Gadadhar into the Vaishnava-leaning pious brahmin family of Khudiram Chattopadhyay in 1836 in the village of Kamarpukur, now in West Bengal, India. This was the period when India was on the threshold of complete domination by the colonial superpower Britain, as described by Swami Nikhilananda in his foreword to the Gospel of…