Ramakrishna Paramahangsa

Ramakrishna or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay was born in the age British Imperialism on 18th Feb 1836, in the village of Kamarpukur of Hooghly district of West Bengal into a very poor but pious and orthodox Brahmin family.His parents were Kshudiram Chattopadhyay and Chandramani Devi. both of them  supposed  to be experienced supernatural dreams.

Father of Sri Ramakrishna, was a devout Brahmin. Raghubira and Sitala Devi were his house hold deities, and he worshipped them daily with great devotion. They were very near and dear to him.
Khudiram could even see Sitala Devi as a living being. In the morning when he went to the garden to collect flowers for worship, he often saw Sitala Devi as a little girl moving about with him. Sometimes she held down a branch to help him pluck the flowers easily.
Chandramani, also known as Chandra Devi, was Sri Ramakrishna’s mother. She also was simple and open-hearted like Khudiram. She too saw Brahma, Lakshmi Devi and many other gods and goddesses and even talked with them. God comes to the abode of those who are simple, pious and large-hearted.
Sri Ramakrishna said: Nanda Ghosh and Dasaratha were so simple; that is why God came to them as their sons—in the form of Krishna and Rama.
One can see God and talk with Him. He shows himself to those who are simple and large-hearted and love Him with all their soul. As Rama, as Krishna, as Kali or as Sitala Devi— God appears in whatever form one thinks of and wants to see Him


Ramakrishna attended a village school with some regularity upto his age of tweelve but did not  proceed further on the ground that he was not interested in bread-winning education. But acquired sound knowledge in Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bhagavat  Puranas. He could read and write in Bengali.