The Order on the March News & Notes from Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
July 2019
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The 123rd Foundation Day of the Ramakrishna Mission was celebrated at Belur Math on 1 May. Srimat Swami Smaranananda Ji Maharaj, President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission chaired the programme. A good number of monks, devotees and well-wishers were present in the programme. Sri Tathagata Roy, Governor of Meghalaya, visited Belur Math on 27 May.
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The following centres held various programmes as mentioned below: Antpur: Seminar (200 people); Asansol: Four Youth Conferences (477 youth); Jalpaiguri: Parents’ Convention (430 people) and Devotees’ Convention (1350 devotees) in which Srimat Swami Suhitananda Ji, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Order participated; Mangaluru:
Lectures (850 youths); Rajkot: Public Meeting (400 people) which was presided over by Srimat Swami Shivamayananda Ji, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Order. Malaysia: Lectures and music in a public hall in Kuala Lumpur attended by 300 devotees; St. Louis, USA: Talks and bhajans held at the Hindu Temple of St. Louis (250 devotees).
News of Branch Centres (in India)
Srimat Swami Smaranananda Ji Maharaj, President of the Ramakrishna Order, installed new pictures of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda in Sri Ramakrishna temple at Bamunmura centre on 7 May, the auspicious Akshaya Tritiya. The programme was attended by 130 monks and about 500 devotees. Swami Gautamananda Ji, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Order, reconsecrated the renovated Sri Ramakrishna temple at the Nettayam subcentre of Thiruvananthapuram Ashrama on 7 May. A procession,
public meetings and cultural programmes were held in this connection from 6 to 8 May. Salem Ashrama conducted discourses and bhajans at the Central Prison in Salem which were attended by about 500 prison inmates.
Summer Camps
Summer Camps for students were held in these centres : Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Chennai Math, Chennai Mission Ashrama, Hyderabad, Indore, Kadapa, Kayamkulam, Kochi, Madurai, Rajkot
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