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  News of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission : 31 December 2007

 

Personalia

Swami Atmasthanandaji, President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, is scheduled to visit Delhi and Vrindaban from 8 to 22 January.  He is keeping well.

Swami Gitanandaji, Vice-President, will be visiting Medinipur and Garbeta from 10 to 23 January.  He is in good health. 

Swami Smarananandaji, Vice-President, is scheduled to return to Belur Math on 8 January after his tour of South India.  He will be visiting Vrindaban, Delhi and Dehradun from 11 to 24 January.  He is keeping well.

 

Headquarters


The birthday of Holy Mother was celebrated at Belur Math on Sunday, 30 December.  Thousands of devotees attended the celebration throughout the day.  Cooked Prasad was served to about 31,000 devotees.  Swami Atmasthanandaji, President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, chaired the public meeting held in the afternoon.

The 98th Annual General Meeting of the Ramakrishna Mission was held at Belur Math on Sunday, 16 December.  It was chaired by Swami Atmasthanandaji, President, Ramakrishna Mission.  In all, 135 monastic members, 60 lay members and 56 associates attended the meeting. 

 

News of Branch Centres : INDIA

The newly constructed building for kitchen and dining-hall at Coimbatore Math was inaugurated on 30 November.

With the initiative taken by Delhi Ashrama, a 10 ft x 10 ft painting on the theme Harmony of Religions, depicting Sri Ramakrishna as the central figure, was installed at Ramakrishna Ashram Marg Metro Railway Station, New Delhi, on 5 November.  The saying “As many faiths so many paths” is inscribed on either side of the painting, both in English and Hindi.

Swami Vivekananda Mandapam and the Sabhanganam at the new campus of Kadapa centre were inaugurated on 2 December.

Sri Pradip Majhi, an ex-student of Narendrapur Blind Boys’ Academy, won the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, 2007, for his outstanding performance as the most efficient self-employed person.  Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India, handed over the award to him at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.  On the same day, Sri Bhabesh Barman and Sri Deb Kumar Maity, ex-students of the Blind Boys’ Academy, received the State Awards for the year 2007 from Sri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal, in recognition of their outstanding performance as the most efficient self‑employed persons.

On 10 December, Swami Smarananandaji, Vice-President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, inaugurated the newly built first floor of the students’ home at Cooch Behar centre and laid the foundation stones for the Ashrama’s main gate and the building for accommodating senior guest monks.

The newly constructed first floor of Ramharipur high school building was inaugurated on 12 December.

Two students of the Department of Sanskrit Studies, Vivekananda University, namely Vivek Karmakar and Prasenjit Roy, won the first and third prizes respectively in the All India Elocution Competition on Swami Vivekananda in Sanskrit held at the Institute of Culture, Gol Park, Kolkata, on 13 December.

  The following centres conducted free eye camps:

Sl.
No.

Centre

Duration of camps

Patients checked / treated

Specs given

Surgeries

no.

performed at
1

Belgaum

Oct. & Nov.

66

–

40

A hospital in Belgaum
2

Chandigarh

25 November

240

106

29

A hospital in Patiala
3

Garbeta

29 November

130

–

33

An eye care centre in Medinipur
4

Limbdi

21 December

166

–

20

A hospital in Virnagar, Dist. Rajkot
5

Lucknow

December

1055

–

217

Our Lucknow hospital
6

Medinipur

21 December

183

–

49

A hospital in Medinipur
7

Patna

December

128

–

128

Our eye clinic in Patna
8

Silchar

Oct. to Dec.

683

–

114

Two hospitals in Silchar
 

Ulsoor

December

398

–

138

Two hospitals in Bangalore

Md. Firoj, a 16-year old born-blind boy of Samastipur district, Bihar, got his vision by an operation conducted in our Patna eye clinic last month.

 

 

News of Branch Centres : OUTSIDE INDIA

 

Swami Sridharanandaji, head of Sydney (Australia) centre, reached Mumbai on 28 November on a seven-week visit to India.

 

Communication  Addresses  &  Numbers

Telephone Number:  The telephone number of Ramharipur High School has been changed from 03242-282502 to 03241-259905.

Email Addresses:  The following centres have changed their email addresses as shown below:

Centre

Old Address

New Address

Delhi

<rkmissiondelhi@vsnl.com>

<rkmissiondelhi@gmail.com>

Thiruvananthapuram

<srkachtvm@sancharnet.in>

<srkach_tvm@bsnl.in>

 

 

Obituary

 

We are sorry to announce the passing away of Swami Swaranandaji (Kochukrishnan Maharaj) on 28 December at 4.50 am at KMM Clinic, Thrissur.  He was 84 and had been suffering from ischemic heart disease, renal dysfunction, hypertension, etc for some years.  An initiated disciple of Swami Virajanandaji, he joined the Order at Thrissur centre in 1946 and continued there till the last.  He had Sannyasa from Swami Shankaranandaji in 1956.  He had been leading a retired life at Thrissur centre for about seventeen years.  The Swami was simple, hardworking and jovial by nature.

 

 


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