BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS AQUARIUS: RAMAKRISHNA

Hindu religious teacher, born in the Hooghly district of Bengal, E India, the son of a poor Brahmin family with little formal education. He became a priest at Dakshineswar Kali temple, near Kolkata (Calcutta), eventually forming his own religious order. He believed in self-realization and God-realization - expressing God by the way one lives and worships - and taught that all religions were different paths to the same goal. His most noteworthy disciple was Vivekananda. Several books of his sayings were later published by his followers.