# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ramakrishna
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:52:23.961Z

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description: "A temple priest at a Calcutta shrine who spent decades cycling through Hindu devotional paths, Christian practice, and Sufi Islam — then taught that every religion aims at the same endpoint. His followers call him an avatar; his chief student carried the message worldwide."
tagline: "Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836–1886)"
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birthDate: "1836-02-18"
deathDate: "1886-08-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay in Kamarpukur, Bengal Presidency, he reported religious experiences from childhood. Around twenty he took a post as priest at the Dakshineshwar Kali Temple, where his devotion to the goddess Kali sparked a series of spiritual visions that other teachers vouched for as genuine. Married to Sarada Devi in 1859 in a union never consummated, he studied under multiple gurus across Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, Advaita Vedanta, Christianity, and Islam, receiving sannyasa initiation in 1865 from the monk Tota Puri. He drew social elites and ordinary visitors alike, reluctant at first to teach but eventually training disciples and founding the Ramakrishna Order around the idea that direct experience trumps scripture. Throat cancer killed him on the night of 15 August 1886; his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda then exported the teaching to India and the West.