History :RAMAKRISHNA MISSION

 RAMAKRISHNA MISSION

• Founded by Vivekanand (earlier, Narendranath Dutta) (1863 – 1902) in 1897, 11 years after the death of his guru Ram Krishna Paramhans.
• Vivekanand attended the Parliament of Religion at Chicago in 1893.
• He published two papers: Prabhudha Bharat in English and Udbodhana in Bengali.
• Irish woman Margaret Noble (Known as sister Nivedita) popularized Ramakrishna Mission after Vivekanand’s death.

Ram Krishna (1836-1886)

• His original name was Gadoidhar Chattopadhyay. He was born in 1836 in Kamarpukar village in Hooghly district of VVest Bengal.
• He was a priest in Dakshineshwar temple of Goddess Kali near Calcutta.
• He sought religious salvation in traditional ways of renunciation, meditation & devotion
• Emphasized that service to man was service to god
• His thinking was rooted deeply in Indian thought and culture although he emphasized the truth in all religions.