Way back in 1973, when I was a student in Nizam College, Hyderabad, Swami Ranganathanandji of the Ramakrishna Mission addressed us. He made many thought-provoking statements. However, one comment of his is very relevant even today, in view of the ongoing Paris Olympics.
After four days, monks from the Jalpaiguri branch of Ramakrishna Mission were able to enter their building with the presence of police officers from Bhaktinagar police station.
Maharaj had laid the foundation stone in 2020. The centre was hit by natural calamities like Yash, Ailah and Amphan.
The 19th century Bengal Renaissance had been the force behind the influx of Western rationality and thought in India. Fed up with the superstition accumulated over the ages, educated Indians decided to do away completely with religion. It is now fashionable to speak of secular education where the word secular is interpreted to mean devoid of any particular religious beliefs whatsoever. But this apparently neutral stand has often sucked out the life-giving components from culture and education. In the attempt to remove the weeds from a plant, the very plant has been cut down, as it were
Ramakrishna Mission spent Rs 1,171 crore in 2022-23 on service. The 114th annual general meeting of Ramakrishna Mission was held at Belur Math on 17 December.
Seeds of such truths were sown by Sri Ramakrishna in Swamijis fertile brain which was a stickler for truth. They were gradually germinating to take concrete forms. For instance, when he heard from him that seva is spiritually more efficacious for man than daya as a means for spiritual growth, he immediately absorbed it and decided to make its idea the pivot of Ramakrishna Mission
This centre has been named as “Vivekananda Institute of Values” which will mainly conduct structured value education programmes for teachers, students, parents and professionals.
Several officials of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, KendriyaVidyalaya Samiti, CBSE, management representatives and over 150 Principals and teachers of different schools in Delhi &NCR were present on the occasion.
Ramakrishna Mission secretary Swami Tanmahimananda said the land upon which the Mission temple in Shimla was vested in a trust in 1898 and it was handed over to the Himalayan Brahmo Samaj in 2011.
On Saturday, Kejriwal thanked the administration of the various Gurdwaras dotting the city, the Radha Soami Satsang Beas and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) for the massive efforts these organisations have put in to feed poor people and migrant labourers stranded due to the lockdown.
