He went to school till the early age of 12, but discontinued as a formal education did not interest him.
At the age of 23, he got married to five-year-old Saradamoni Mukhopadhyay, who later came to be known as Maa Sarada.
When Saradamoni came of age and joined the sage at Dakshineshwar, Ramakrishna had already entered the reclusive life of a hermit.
Apart from being well-versed in the Puranas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana, he was devoted to Goddess Kali.
His chief disciple Vivekananda established the Ramakrishna order, which eventually aided the spread of mission posts across the globe.
Ramakrishna’s disciples believed he was an avatar or incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
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