The Ramakrishna Mission is a spiritual and philanthropic organisation founded by Swami Vivekananda on 1 May 1897 in Calcutta, in the name of his teacher Sri Ramakrishna, which combines Vedantic teaching with service in education, health and disaster relief; its headquarters is at Belur Math near Kolkata.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836–1886), a priest at the Kali temple at Dakshineswar, taught through his own spiritual experiences that all religions lead to the same truth. He practised paths from Tantra and Vaishnava devotion to Advaita, and also Islamic and Christian forms of worship, and declared "Jato mat, tato path" (as many faiths, so many paths). He attracted young disciples, among them Narendranath Datta, who became Swami Vivekananda.
After Ramakrishna's death in 1886, his young disciples formed a monastic brotherhood at Baranagar. Vivekananda travelled across India and then to the West, where his addresses at the Chicago Parliament of Religions in 1893 brought him fame. On his return in 1897 he called a meeting of monks and lay followers in Calcutta and founded the Ramakrishna Mission Association to organise service and preaching. The monastery moved to Belur on the west bank of the Ganga in 1898.
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