The Order on the March News & Notes from Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
May 2019
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125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Addresses at the World’s Parliament of Religions
The following centres of the Order held various programmes
for school students, youth, teachers, and devotees: Baranagar Math: 4 lectures (264 students and 30 teachers); Coimbatore Mission: cultural competitions (507 students); Hatamuniguda: Quiz (140 students), 2 youth conventions (350 youth), lectures (400 students); Hyderabad: 4 youth conventions (3000 youth); Malda: youth convention (470 youth); Mangaluru: lectures (2750 students); Mysuru: 5 workshops (1044 youth); Naora: lecture (1200 devotees); Pune: 5 lectures (1077 tribal youth); Srinagar: cultural competition (60 orphanage girls); Vadodara: essay-writing (1159 students); Vijayawada: lecture (670 students and 60 teachers); Colombo, Sri Lanka: 3 lectures (6500 devotees); Mymensingh, Bangladesh: lecture (100 devotees).
News of Branch Centres (India) Lucknow centre inaugurated the year-long golden jubilee celebration of its Vivekananda Polyclinic and Institute of
Medical Sciences. Rajkot centre brought out a commemorative volume to mark the 125th a n n ive r s a r y o f Swa m i j i ’ s visit to Gujarat . Chennai Math distributed buttermilk and sharbat to about 20,000 people on 17 and 18 March on the occasion of the annual Ratha Yatra celebrations of Sri Kapaleeshwarar Temple, Chennai. The Math devotees and s t u d e n t s o f Ra m a k r i s h n a Mission, Students’ Home cleaned the streets around the temple after the celebration. Srimath Swami Vagishananda Ji inaugurated the extension to the prayer hall at Gadadhar Ashra ma , Kol ka t a , on 24 March, the birthday of Swami Yogananda. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarded the highest grade of A++ to Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI deemed university), Belur, for five years in the first cycle of its assessment. The Cumulative
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The birthday (janma-tithi) of Sri Ramakrishna was celebrated at Belur Math on Friday, 8 March, with spiritual fervour and delight. Cooked prasad was served to about 35,000 devotees. Swami Vishwanathananda presided over the public meeting held in the afternoon. As part of the celebration, Devotees’ Conventions were held on 13 and 14 February in which about 2500 devotees participated on each day. The annual Public Celebration in connection with Sri Ramakrishna’s birthday was held at Belur Math on Sunday, 17 March. More than one lakh people visited Belur Math in the course of the day. Cooked prasad was served to about 40,000 people. Due to unavoidable circumstances, the fireworks display was cancelled this year.
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