Sarada Devi

Sri Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi, c. 1890
Personal
Born	Kshemankari/ Thakurmani/ Saradamani Mukhopadhyay (1853-12-22)22 December 1853 Joyrambati, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Died	20 July 1920(1920-07-20) (aged 66) Bagbazar, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Cause of death	Black fever
Religion	Hinduism
Spouse	Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
Religious career
Guru	Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (spiritual consort)
Honors	Shree Shree Maa

Sri Sarada Devi (Bengali: সারদা দেবী; Sharodā Debi^ⓘ; 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 played an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement.

Sri Sarada Devi was born in Jayrambati, a village in present-day Bankura District in the state of West Bengal, India. She was married to Ramakrishna in 1859^{[citation needed]} when she was only six years old and Ramakrishna was 23 years old, but remained with her family until she was 18, when she joined Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar Kali temple. According to her biographers, both lived "lives of unbroken continence, showing the ideals of a householder and of the monastic ways of life". After Ramakrishna's death, Sarada Devi stayed most of the time either at Joyrambati or at the Udbodhan office, Calcutta. The disciples of Ramakrishna regarded her as their own mother, and after their guru's death looked to her for advice and encouragement. The followers of the Ramakrishna movement and a large section of devotees across the world worship Sarada Devi as an incarnation of the Adi Parashakti or the Divine Mother.