" A big tree does not grow over night if its seed is planted in the ground. It remains as it is for some time on the bed of the ground. With the help of heat, water and air its cover bursts and the sapling gradually begins to grow and ultimately, in due course, it takes the shpe of a huge tree." The 'seed' of Ramakrishna was planted (1836) as Gadadhar in a remote village of Kamarpukur which, in due course, took the shape as the savior of the mankind and threw new light on the meaning of the supreme power.
At that time our National life was deeply immersed in crisis. Our Independence was under the feet of a big foreign power like British. Not only independence our day to day life, our 'culture' for the first time was going to be shattered by a new 'system', not for our benefit but for exploiting all our wealth. They wanted even to change our faith of religion and asked us to throw all our valuable scriptures which were created by our ancestors for thousands and thousands years ago, far more earlier than theirs. the western wind had devastated the life of Bengalis to be dipped into a drug-addicted one. Our religion is the only eternal one in the whole world which could not have been damaged till date.A Hindu Brahmman came forward to save us from this calamity, whose name was Rammohan Roy. He read Bedh, Bedanta, Upanishad, Bible and Koran and explained that in Hindu religion there is the idea of one God. He quoted relevant portion from Bedh and Upanishad. He wrote a book taking five chapters - Isha, Kena, Latha, Mundaka and Mandukya. He launched a movement where many people like Devendranath Tagore etc joined.
Ramakrishna established his war-front at Dakshineswar. He was simply a worshipper with no bookish knowledge.
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