Editing Ramakrishna (section)

=== Birth and childhood ===
Ramakrishna was born on 18 February 1836,{{sfn|Gupta|1942|pp=18}} in the village of [[Kamarpukur]], in the [[Hooghly district]] of [[West Bengal]], India, in a very poor and pious [[Bengali Brahmin]] family.{{sfn|Heehs|2002|p=430}} He was the fourth and the youngest child of his parents, father Khudiram Chattopadhyaya, born in 1775, and mother Chandramani Devi, born in 1791. The couple's first son Ramkumar is said to have been born in 1805, a daughter Katyayani five years later, and a second son Rameswar in 1826.{{sfn|Saradananda|1952|pp=21}}

Chandramani Devi was Khudiram's second wife. His first wife died young. Khudiram had ancestral property in the Dere Village of present day West Bengal, India. An unscrupulous landlord, Ramananda Roy, who was angry with Khudiram for refusing to commit perjury, brought a false petition against him in the court and took possession of his ancestral property. Bereft of all property, Khudiram and Chandramani Devi moved to Kamarpukur where a friend, Sukhlal Goswami, gifted them one Bigha and ten Chataks of land for their maintenance.{{sfn|Saradananda|1978|pp=24–26}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=October 2022}}

The parents of Ramakrishna are said to have experienced supernatural incidents and visions regarding his birth. In [[Gaya, India|Gaya]], his father Khudiram had a dream in which [[Bhagavan]] Gadadhara (a form of [[Vishnu]]) told him that he would be born as his son. Chandramani Devi is said to have had a vision of light entering her womb from the [[lingam]] in Yogider Shiv [[Hindu temple|mandir]].{{sfn|Chatterjee|1993|pp=46–47}}{{sfn|Harding|1998|pp=243–244}} In another vision following Ramakrishna's birth, his mother saw a strange tall person lying in the bed instead of the baby Ramakrishna.{{sfn|Saradananda|1978|pp=50}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=October 2022}}

The family was devoted to the Hindu deity [[Rama]], the family deity was Sri Raghubir{{endash}}an epithet of Rama, and the male children of Khudiram and Chandramani were given names that started with Ram or Rama: Ramkumar, Rameswar, and Ramakrishna.<ref>''More About Ramakrishna'' by Swami Prabhananda, 1993, Advaita Ashrama, First Chapter - Who Gave the Name Ramakrishna and When?</ref> There has been some dispute about the origin of the name Ramakrishna, but there is "...evidence which proves beyond doubt that the name 'Ramakrishna' was given to him by his father..."<ref name="More About Ramakrishna' 1993, page 23"/> Ramakrishna confirmed this himself, as recorded in "M"s diaries, "I was a pet child of my father. He used to call me Ramakrishnababu."<ref name="ReferenceA"/>