Bengali Hindu mystic and priest of Kali who practiced and experienced multiple religious traditions (Hinduism, Islam, Christianity) and arrived at a perennialist conclusion: all paths lead to God.
Religious perennialism through personal experience: Ramakrishna did not theorize but practiced — spending periods as a Muslim, as a Christian, achieving mystical experiences he interpreted as the same divine reality in different forms. His disciple Vivekananda systematized and exported his teaching as Vedanta.
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