Editing Shivananda (section)

===Ramakrishna's influence===
[[File:Vivekananda Baranagar 1887.jpg|thumb|250px|Group photo taken on 30 January 1887 In [[Baranagar Math]], Kolkata.<br/>'''Standing''': (l–r) Swami Shivananda, [[Swami Ramakrishnananda]], [[Swami Vivekananda]], Randhuni, Debendranath Majumdar, [[Mahendranath Gupta]] (Shri M), [[Swami Trigunatitananda]], H.Mustafi<br/> '''Sitting''': (l–r) [[Swami Niranjanananda (Niranjan Maharaj)|Swami Niranjanananda]], [[Swami Saradananda]], Hutko Gopal, [[Swami Abhedananda]]]]
Tarak saw Ramakrishna for the first time at the house of [[Ram Chandra Datta|Ramchandra Dutta]] in May 1880. A few days later he went to [[Dakshineswar]] to visit [[Kali]] Temple; from then he began to practise intense prayer and meditation under Ramakrishna's guidance. He later wrote "I have not yet come to a final understanding whether he [Ramakrishna] was a man or a superman, a god or the God Himself, but I have known him to be a man of complete self-effacement, master of the highest renunciation, possessed of supreme wisdom, and the supreme incarnation of love."<ref name="The Disciples of Sri Ramakrishna1" />