Sri Ramakrishna

Sri Ramakrishna’s expansive ontology of the infinite and illimitable God provides the foundation for a maximally robust model of religious pluralism. On the basis of his own spiritual experience of vijñāna, Sri Ramakrishna taught that every genuine religion captures some real aspect of the Infinite Divine Reality and hence is an effective path to the goal of God-realization. Instead of stopping there, however, Sri Ramakrishna further affirmed the harmony of all religions: since the various religious conceptions of the ultimate reality are complementary rather than conflicting, all religious practitioners can enrich and broaden their understanding of God by learning from religious views other than their own