Hvem giftet seg med Ramakrishna?

Ramakrishna (født Gadadhar Chatterjii 18. februar 1836 i landsbyen Kamarpukur i Vest-Bengal, død 6. august 1886)

Ramakrishna viet sitt liv til Gudinnen Kali, til kjærligheten og respekten for sine medmennesker. Han hadde mange store syner i sitt liv. Gudinnen Kali er et aspekt av Gud som kan være både grusom og kjærlig.

Ramakrishna viste mange veier til Gud eller Guddommelig opplysning, både flere veier innenfor hinduismen og gjennom andre religioner. Hans egen vei var alltid hengivenhet til Kali, selv om han eksperimenterte med andre retninger i en fase av livet.

Disipler av Ramakrishna var blant annet Shashi, Vivekananda, og Surendra Nath Boral, den siste professor i filosofi fra Burdwain universitet i India, og som senere utvandret til Norge.

Sri Sarada Devi (Bengali: সারদা দেবী; ; 22 December 1853 – 20 July 1920), born Kshemankari / Thakurmani / Saradamani Mukhopadhyay, was the wife and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth-century Hindu mystic. Sarada Devi is also reverentially addressed as the Holy Mother (Sri Sri Maa) by the followers of the Sri Ramakrishna monastic order. The Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission situated at Dakshineshwar is based on the ideals and life of Sarada Devi. She played an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement.

Sarada Devi was born in Jayrambati, a village that became part of Bankura District in the state of West Bengal, India. She was married to Ramakrishna in 1859 when she was only five years old and Ramakrishna was 23 years old, but remained with her family until she was 18, when she joined Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar Kali temple. According to her biographers, both lived "lives of unbroken continence, showing the ideals of a householder and of the monastic ways of life". After Ramakrishna's death, Sarada Devi stayed most of the time either at Joyrambati or at the Udbodhan office, Calcutta. The disciples of Ramakrishna regarded her as their own mother, and after their guru's death looked to her for advice and encouragement. The followers of the Ramakrishna movement and a large section of devotees across the world worship Sarada Devi as an incarnation of the Adi Parashakti or the Divine Mother.