In July 1890, accompanied by the fellow monk Swami Akhandananda ( also a disciple of Ramakrishna ), Vivekananda visited the Himalayas.

There is also a branch of Ramakrishna Mission in the UK in Bourne End.

Ramakrishna also experimented with other religions, notably Islam and Christianity, and said that they all lead to the same God.

While the official biographies write that the name Ramakrishna was given by Mathura Biswas — chief patron at Dakshineswar Kali Temple, it has also been suggested that this name was given by his own parents.

The Bhairavi also taught Ramakrishna the kumari-puja, a form of ritual in which the Virgin Goddess is worshiped symbolically in the form of a young girl.

Under the tutelage of the Bhairavi, Ramakrishna also learnt Kundalini Yoga.

Keshab also publicized Ramakrishna's teachings in the journals of New Dispensation over a period of several years, which was instrumental in bringing Ramakrishna to the attention of a wider audience, especially the Bhadralok ( English-educated classes of Bengal ) and the Europeans residing in India.

Sannyasini Gauri Ma ( 1857 – March 1, 1938 ), born Mridani, Saradeshwari Ashram in a Glance published by President Mataji Bandana Sri Saradeshwari Ashram also Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi A Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna published by Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Lakeshore Interfaith Institute and Community, Ganges, MI USA, was a prominent Indian monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, companion of Sri Sarada Devi and founder of Kolkatta's Sri Saradeswari Ashram.

Ramakrishna also asked other monastic disciples to look upon Vivekananda as their leader.

On a basic level, Ramakrishna saw this system as a corrupt form of European social organization that forced educated men to be servants not only to their bosses at the office but also to their wives at home.

" Ramakrishna also cautioned his women disciples against purusa-kanchana (" man and gold ") and Tyagananda writes that Ramakrishna used Kamini-Kanchana as " cautionary words " instructing his disciples to conquer the " lust inside the mind.

" Amiya Prosad Sen writes that " it is really difficult to separate the Tantrik Ramakrishna from the Vedantic ", since Vedanta and Tantra " may appear to be differ in some respects ", but they also " share some important postulates between them ".

Romain Rolland described the mystical states achieved by Ramakrishna and other mystics as an "' oceanic ' sentiment ", one which Rolland had also experienced.

Kakar also argued that culturally relative concepts of eroticism and gender have contributed to the Western difficulty in comprehending Ramakrishna.

The headquarters of Ramakrishna Math at Belur ( popularly known as Belur Math ) serves also as the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission.

Intlo Ramayya Veedilo Krishnayya ( 1982 ), directed by Kodi Ramakrishna, not only strengthened his position as a big star but also brought him lot of laurels.

Sarada Devi is also reverentially addressed as the Holy Mother ( Sri Maa or শ ্ র ী ম া) by the followers of the Ramakrishna monastic order.

He was a pioneer in terms of establishing Ramakrishna Mission as a philanthropic organization working for the welfare of poor and orphans and also for providing relief to the affected and needy.

He also provided a platform for many actors and actresses such as Kalpana, Aarathi, Leelavathi, Jayanthi, Padma Vasanthi, Srinath, Rajinikanth, Vishnuvardhan, Ambarish, Jai Jagadish, Chandra Shekhar, Gangadhar, Shivaram, Vajramuni, Sridhar, Ramakrishna, Aparna-TV and Radio Anchor to showcase their talents.

Ramkanai also knew Sri Ramakrishna personally as he used to visit Dakshineswar on matters of business.

Sri Ramakrishna also initiated him at this stage and this increased his spiritual yearnings.

During this period, Vivekananda returned to Baranagar Math a few times, because of ill health and to arrange for monetary funds after Balaram Bose and Suresh Chandra Mitra, the disciples of Ramakrishna who sponsored the Math had died.

He had a walk with Swami Premananda, a brother-disciple, and gave him instructions on the future of the Ramakrishna Math.

On the other bank of the river, Ramakrishna had been cremated sixteen years before.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had sixteen disciples ( other than Swami Vivekananda ) who became monks of the Ramakrishna Order ; they are often considered his apostles.

Ramakrishna had reserved ochre cloths for 12, including Girish Ghosh.

Several of the monks had only seen Ramakrishna a few times.

Ramakrishna reportedly had experiences of similar nature a few other times in his childhood — while worshipping the goddess Vishalakshi, and portraying god Shiva in a drama during Shivaratri festival.

Ramakrishna reportedly had a vision of the goddess Kali as the universal Mother, which he described as "... houses, doors, temples and everything else vanished altogether ; as if there was nothing anywhere!

Rumors spread to Kamarpukur that Ramakrishna had become unstable as a result of his spiritual exercises at Dakshineswar.

By the time his bride joined him, Ramakrishna had already embraced the monastic life of a sannyasi ; as a result, the marriage was never consummated.

According to the Bhairavi, Ramakrishna was experiencing phenomena that accompany mahabhava — the supreme attitude of loving devotion towards the divine – and quoting from the bhakti shastras, she said that other religious figures like Radha and Chaitanya had similar experiences.

Ramakrishna acknowledged the left-hand tantric path, though it had " undesirable features ", as one of the " valid roads to God-realization ", he consistently cautioned his devotees and disciples against associating with it.

According to Ramakrishna, towards the end of this sadhana, he had a vision of Sita, the consort of Rama, merging into his body.

According to Ramakrishna, he had an intense vision of two young boys merging into his body.

Ramakrishna said that he " devoutly repeated the name of Allah, wore a cloth like the Arab Moslems, said their prayer five times daily, and felt disinclined even to see images of the Hindu gods and goddesses, much less worship them — for the Hindu way of thinking had disappeared altogether from my mind.

" According to Ramakrishna, after three days of practice he had a vision of a " radiant personage with grave countenance and white beard resembling the Prophet and merging with his body ".

Ramakrishna describes of a vision in which the picture of Madonna and Child Jesus became alive and had a vision in which Jesus merged with his body.

In 1875, Ramakrishna met the influential Brahmo Samaj leader Keshab Chandra Sen. Keshab had accepted Christianity, and had separated from the Adi Brahmo Samaj.

Formerly, Keshab had rejected idolatry, but under the influence of Ramakrishna he accepted Hindu polytheism and established the " New Dispensation " ( Nava Vidhan ) religious movement, based on Ramakrishna's principles —" Worship of God as Mother ", " All religions as true " and " Assimilation of Hindu polytheism into Brahmoism ".

Newspapers reported that Ramakrishna was spreading " Love " and " Devotion " among the educated classes of Calcutta and that he had succeeded in reforming the character of some youths whose morals had been corrupt.

Ramakrishna was skilled with words and had an extraordinary style of preaching and instructing, which may have helped convey his ideas to even the most skeptical temple visitors.