Sarada Devi

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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 was involved in an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement. Sarada Devi was born at Joyrambati, 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 years old, when she joined Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar Kali temple. According to her biographers, both lived "lives of unbroken continence, showing the ideals of...

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