SingaSpeaks A PERIODIC NEWSLETTER FROM THE RAMAKRISHNA MISSION, SINGAPORE
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Devotees’ Convention at Kuala Lumpur The Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) Malaysia Devotees’ Convention was held on Monday, 1 May 2017 from 9 am to 2 pm at the RKM Malaysia Prayer Hall. The Convention which was held in conjunction with the Ramakrishna Mission Foundation Day (1 May 1897) began with Arati and Vedic Chanting. Swami Supriyananda, President of the Malaysia Ramakrishna Mission welcomed the Guest monk, Swami Vimokshananda from Singapore and all devotees. It may be noted that it was in the year 1897 on 1 May, that Swami Vivekananda gathered his brother monks and brother householder disciples at Balaram’s House and initiated the great work of organising a Society in the name of his Guru. Sri A V S Sundararajan from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Indian 179 BARTLEY ROAD | SINGAPORE 539784
Cultural Centre opened the session with two patriotic songs from the Poet Saint Bharatiyar. He was accompanied ably on tabla by Sri Angappan. This was followed by a melodius flute recital by Master Sagnik Mondal. It was the right time to now listen to Dr P K Das, a senior devotee from Penang who displayed a Powerpoint Presentation on
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organisation based on ‘Tyag’ and ‘Seva’ – Sacrifice and Service. He also dealt with the present worldwide status of the Ramakrishna Mission. The slides that he showed aptly showcased the theme. The children attending the Vivekananda Bala Vihar of the Kuala Lumpur RKM joyously the “Seed, Sprout and sang songs on the Holy the Growth” of the Trio. Ramakrishna Mission Through his colourful since its inception. and descriptive He explained lucidly how narration on the holy Sri Ramakrishna inspired scripture ‘Srimad the young boys who Bhagavatam’, became his disciples and Sri Jayasekar from the how the disciples led by Seremban Centre Swami Vivekananda, in evoked deep interest of turn, developed this the devotees for regular
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reading of the Bhagavatam. After a short tea break, the audience assembled in the Shrine Hall. Swami Vimokshananda who had flown the day before from Singapore on a four-day visit to Malaysia spoke on “The Training of Mind”, giving
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an insightful discourse on the topic. The Swami explained lucidly the three realms of the mind as narrated by Swami Vivekananda in his Raja
Swami Supriyananda in his inimitable way gave a practically applicable talk on how to see "God in Everything". interspersing his talk with several carefully selected correlated bhajans. A Question-Answer session thereafter made an interesting feature of the Retreat. Finally, at about 2 pm the second session came to a close with chorus singing of Yoga book, the “Ramakrishna importance of training Sharanam� by all the mind and the devotees besides, methods to adopt to a Vote of Thanks given bring the mind under our by Swami Supriyananda. control which is His Excellency Sri T S essential to achieve Tirumurti, the High success in any field. At Commissioner of India the end of his Talk, he was present at the gave the gist in Tamil. Convention. About 250 179 BARTLEY ROAD | SINGAPORE 539784
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devotees who attended the Convention had a delightful lunch prasad. The devotees also had the opportunity to offer their pranams to the
Swamis and interact with them at the end of the programme. They expressed their deep satisfaction. Sri Suria Rao, a Member of the Managing Committee of the RKM, Malaysia ably conducted the Retreat. singapore@rkmm.org
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Our Campus through the Drone Lens
Above picture: Our Temple is in the centre, to the right is our Cultural Building, to the left our Boys' Home and to the left front our Sarada Hall. These striking bird’s eye-view photos of our Campus were taken by a visitor recently using a drone lens. a close-up photo taken by the drone camera… Above is our Cultural Building Left is our WINGS Counselling Centre and Sarada KG School All photos courtesy: Swami Satyalokananda
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