Ramakrishna, having practised Hindu, Muslim and Christian disciplines, taught that each leads to the same divine reality, as many paths lead to one summit. Vivekananda carried the idea to the West at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893. It became a central theme of modern Hindu thought.
Harmony of religions
Ramakrishna’s teaching that the religions are many paths to one God: “as many faiths, so many paths”.