Discourse by Swami Guneshananda
2023-06-24 18:00 - 2023-06-30 19:30 (Asia/Kolkata)

Ekadasi / Ram Naam Sankirtanam
2023-06-29 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-07-13 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-07-29 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-08-12 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-08-27 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-10 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-09-26 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 and 2 more dates
Ekadasi is one of the regular festivals celebrated in all centres of the Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission across the world and Ramnama Sankirtanam is sung by the congregation on this day.
The singing of this Sankirtanam was started by Srimat Swami Brahmanandaji Maharaj who was the spiritual son of Sri Ramakrishna. He was also the first President of the Ramakrishna Sangha.
Once during the singing of the Sankirtanam in the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama at Varanasi, Swami Brahmanandaji Maharaj had the Darshan of Sri Hanuman.
The 108 slokas of the Ramnama Sankirtanam, contain a brief and succinct description of the Divine Play of Maryada Purshottam Sri Rama – as if the ocean has been filled into a small pot! (The cassette/ CD for the Ramnama Sankirtanam is also available at the bookshop.)
The Ramnama Sankirtanam would be streamed live one hour before evening arati on our youtube channel www.youtube.com/rkmkhar

GURU PURNIMA
2023-07-03
Sri GURU PURNIMA with special Puja of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna will be celebrated at the Ramakrishna Math on Monday, July 3, 2023.
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Live streaming of the functions would be made through the link www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live.

Swami Ramakrishnananda Tithi Puja
2023-07-15 19:00 - 21:00
Pre-monastic name : Shashi Bhushan Chakravarty
Date of Birth : 13 July 1863
Place of Birth : Ichapur in Hooghly district, West Bengal

Shashi’s father Ishwara Chandra Chakravarty was an expert in ritualistic worship, and Shashi imbibed from him love for ritualistic worship. After passing out of the village school, he went to Kolkata and lived with his cousin Sharat (later, Swami Saradananda) for higher education. A brilliant student, he chose mathematics for the B.A. course which, however, he could not complete owing to the terminal illness of Sri Ramakrishna at Cossipore.
While studying in college Shashi and Sharat joined the Brahmo Samaj, and heard about Sri Ramakrishna from Keshab Chandra Sen himself. In October 1883 they visited Dakshineswar and were deeply attracted to Sri Ramakrishna. The Master used to say that Shashi and Sharat had been the followers of Jesus Christ in their previous birth.

Shashi distinguished himself most by the self-sacrificing spirit and devotion with which he served Sri Ramakrishna during his last illness at Shyampukur and Cossipore. After the Master’s passing he joined the Baranagar Math and underwent sannyasa ordination, assuming the name Ramakrishnananda. He took charge of the worship of the Atmaramer kauta, the urn containing the relics of Sri Ramakrishna in the Math’s shrine. He felt the living presence of the Master, and so his worship was not a mere ritual but loving service to a living God. It was Swami Ramakrishnananda who formulated and introduced the system of daily ritualistic worship to Sri Ramakrishna that is followed in the Ramakrishna Movement.

He seldom went out on pilgrimage, and devoted himself to daily worship at the Math. But when Swami Vivekananda, after his return from the West, asked him to go to Chennai and open a branch centre of Ramakrishna Math there, he obeyed without any hesitation. The saga of sacrifice and hardship that he underwent in preaching the message of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda for 14 years under unfavourable conditions has been recorded in letters of gold in the annals of the Ramakrishna Movement. In the South he travelled extensively. The starting of centres in Trivandrum, Mysore, Bangalore and Mumbai owed much to his pioneering efforts.
Incessant work, however, told upon his health, and he contracted tuberculosis. He breathed his last in a state of ecstasy on 21 August 1911.
Source: https://belurmath.org/swami-ramakrishnananda/

There will be a discourse on the life & teachings of Swami Ramakrishnanandaji Maharaj after evening arati by Swami Kshitishananda. The discourse will be streamed live on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live

Discourse by Swami Sukhananda
2023-07-21 18:00 - 2023-07-25 19:30

Discourse by Swami Satyamayananda
2023-07-28 18:00 - 2023-07-30 19:30, 2023-08-24 18:00 - 2023-08-26 19:30

YOUTH CAMP
2023-08-04 - 2023-08-06
RESIDENTIAL YOUTH CAMP Ramakrishna Mission, founded by the great Patriotic Saint of India – Swami Vivekananda, is celebrating its 125th Anniversary.

To commemorate the same, Youth Camps are being organized at different centres of Ramakrishna Mission all over India, which will culminate into a grand All India Youth Convention at Belur Math (Headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission near Kolkata) on 25th and 26th December 2023.

Ramakrishna Mission, Mumbai conducting a Residential Youth Camp on the 4th, 5th & 6th of August 2023 at its premises in Khar, for boys in the age group of 18-28 years.

The camp is focused to instill the Man-Making / Character building ideas of Swami Vivekananda in the young minds. It will provide insight to develop life skills, and concentration, cultivate personality traits and give an idea of the holy environment and opportunity to understand the activities of the Ramakrishna Mission, which will bring forth the best in the Youth, for service to the community and nation at large.

The strength of the Residential Camp is limited to 50 students (only boys).

Ten of the best-selected participants from this Camp will be nominated for participation in the All India Youth Convention to be held at Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math, in December 2023.

Rabindra Sangeet
2023-08-07 17:00 - 20:00

Discourse by Prof. Clooney
2023-08-10 18:00 - 19:30

Musical Evening by Swami Sarvagananda
2023-08-22 18:00 - 19:30

Swami Niranjanananda Tithi Puja
2023-08-31 19:00 - 21:00
SWAMI NIRANJANANANDA
Pre-monastic Name : Nityaniranjan Ghosh
Date of Birth : Some day in 1862
Place of Birth : Rajarhat-Vishnupur, W.B.

Born in a middle class family, Niranjan came under the influence of a group of occultists when he was a teenager, and it was in their company that he first visited Sri Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar. The Master took Niranjan aside, and cautioned him about the dangers of occult practices. Niranjan followed the Master’s advice and began to practise meditation under the direction of Sri Ramakrishna.
During the Master’s last illness Niranjan served the Master with unflinching devotion. After the Master’s passing, when the new monastic brotherhood was formed at Baranagar, Niranjan joined it and after sannyasa assumed the name Niranjanananda. After staying at the Math for three years, he went on pilgrimage to different places in India, and also visited Sri Lanka.

Swami Niranjanananda was very much devoted to Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi. Towards the end of his life he went to Hardwar for tapasya. There he had a severe attack of dysentery and passed away on 9 May 1904.

Sri Ramakrishna regarded Niranjan as an ishvarakoti, an ever-perfect soul endowed with special divine attributes.

Source: https://belurmath.org/swami-niranjanananda/
There will be a discourse on the life & teachings of Swami Niranjananandaji Maharaj after evening arati by Swami Divyeshananda. The discourse will be streamed live on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live

Classical Bhajans by Swami Kripaghanananda
2023-09-03 17:30 - 19:00

Sri Krishna Janmashtami
2023-09-07 20:00 - 23:30

Spiritual Retreat (Sadhana Shibir)
2023-09-17
SPIRITUAL RETREAT
Sunday, 17th September 2023*Please get yourself registered for the function through email, phone, or in person. There is no registration fee*
Contact: 022-61818000; E-mail: mumbairkm@gmail.com

SRI SRI GANESH PUJA 2023
2023-09-19 - 2023-09-21

Swami Abhedananda Tithi Puja
2023-10-08 19:00 - 21:00
SWAMI ABHEDANANDA
Pre-monastic name : Kali Prasad Chandra
Date of Birth : 2 October 1866
Place of Birth : North Kolkata

Born in a fairly well-to-do family, Kali had a great eagerness to learn yoga from his boyhood. He gained a good grounding in Sanskrit and English. At the age of 18, when he was studying for the school final examination, he went to Dakshineswar and met Sri Ramakrishna. Under the guidance of the Master, Kali practised meditation and was soon blessed with several visions.

Kali became a frequent visitor to Dakshineswar. He served the Master during his last illness. After the Master’s passing away, he joined the Baranagar Math and underwent sannyasa ordination, assuming the name Swami Abhedananda. At the Baranagar Math he used to shut himself up in a room and do intense meditation or study. This earned him the sobriquet “Kali Tapasvi”. He spent several years visiting places of pilgrimage on foot.

In 1896 Swami Vivekananda brought him to London for Vedanta work there. The next year he crossed over to USA and was given charge of the newly founded New York Vedanta centre. His profundity of scholarship, incisive intellect and oratorical power elicited widespread admiration, and people thronged to listen to him. He was also a prolific writer and his books on life after death, etc are famous.

After his long and successful work in America Swami Abhedananda returned to India in 1923. Soon he established a separate organization named Ramakrishna Vedanta Math and started living at the new centre. However, he maintained cordial relationship with his brother monks at Belur Math which he visited occasionally. He presided over the Parliament of Religions at the Town Hal, Kolkata, as a part of the celebration of the Birth Centenary of Sri Ramakrishna.

He left the mortal frame on 8 September 1939. Of all the contributions that Swami Abhedananda made to Ramakrishna Movement, the most widely appreciated and enduring one is his composition of sublime and beautiful hymns (in Sanskrit) on Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi. His hymn to Holy Mother beginning with Prakritim paramam abhayam varadam, which is sung in many ashramas and homes, is unrivalled in the depth of conception and felicity of expression.

source: https://belurmath.org/swami-abhedananda/
There will be a discourse on the life & teachings of Swami Abhedanandaji Maharaj after evening arati by Swami Kalyanatmananda. The discourse will be streamed live on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live

Swami Akhandananda Tithi Puja
2023-10-14 19:00 - 21:00
SWAMI AKHANDANANDA
Pre-monastic name : Gangadhar Gangopadhyay
Date of Birth : 30 September 1864
Place of Birth : Kolkata

Born in an orthodox family Gangadhar lived a pure, disciplined life from boyhood. At the age of nineteen he went to Dakshineswar Kali temple. Sri Ramakrishna received him cordially and gave him several instructions. Since then he started visiting the Master and also cultivated friendship with the other young disciples, particularly with Naren (later, Swami Vivekananda).
When the Baranagar Math was formed after Sri Ramakrishna’s mahasamadhi, Gangadhar did not join it immediately. Instead, he set out on a long pilgrimage in 1886 which took him to different places in the Himalayas and Tibet. After three and a half years, he returned to Baranagar monastery in June 1890. He then took sannyasa vows formally and assumed the name Akhandananda.

In mid-July 1890 Swami Akhandananda again set out, this time in the company of Swami Vivekananda, on a pilgrimage which took them to different places in the Himalayas. When Swamiji left for the West, Akhandananda continued his wanderings in western India. Towards the end of 1895 he returned to the Math which had been shifted to Alambazar in Kolkata. When Swami Vivekananda, after his return from the West, reached Kolkata in February 1897, Swami Akhandananda enthusiastically participated in the reception accorded to Swamiji.

After a few days, when Swamiji left for Darjeeling, Akhandananda travelled towards Murshidabad. Reaching there he was distressed to find a famine raging. He immediately started famine relief work with whatever he could collect. Later Swami Vivekananda sent more funds and the relief operation was organized on a full scale. This was the first relief operation organized by Ramakrishna Mission.

After relief work Akhandananda started an ashrama with an orphanage in Sargachhi, in the Murshidabad district. He served the orphan boys as manifestations of God.
In 1934, after the passing away of Swami Shivananda, Swami Akhandananda became the President of Ramakrishna Math and Mission. From that time he divided his time between Belur Math and Sargachhi. He participated in the celebration of the Birth Centenary of Sri Ramakrishna in 1936. Owing to old-age ailments he became weak. He passed away on 7 February 1937.

Source: https://belurmath.org/swami-akhandananda/
There will be a discourse on the life & teachings of Swami Akhandanandaji Maharaj after evening arati by Swami Devakantyananda. The discourse will be streamed live on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live

Vivekotsav - Competitions 2023-24
2023-10-19 - 2024-02-04
VIVEKOTSAV 2024
LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS ELOCUTION & MULTI-TALENT COMPETITION
PRIZE WINNERSPRIZE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION WILL BE HELD ON
4TH FEBRUARY 2024 AT 2.30 PM

Inter-school Elocution, Recitation & Multi-Talent Competition

Vivekotsav Main CircularElocution & Recitation Entry FormMulti-Talent Entry FormMulti-Talent CircularDrawing ThemeShort Film Circular
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SRI SRI DURGA PUJA 2023
2023-10-20 - 2023-10-24
Sri Sri Durga Puja will be celebrated at the Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission premises from Friday, 20th October 2023 to Tuesday, 24th October 2023 as per the given programme details. All are cordially invited to attend the puja and other functions.

SHASHTHI - FRIDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2023
06.40 a.m. Kalparambha
06.30 p.m. Bodhan, Amantran & Adhivas
SAPTAMI - SATURDAY, 21ST OCTOBER 2023
06.40 a.m. Saptami Puja
MAHASHTAMI - SUNDAY, 22ND OCTOBER 2023
06.40 a.m. Ashtami Puja
09.30 a.m. KUMARI PUJA
07.36 p.m. to 08.24 p.m. SANDHI PUJA
MAHANAVAMI - MONDAY, 23RD OCTOBER 2023
06.40 a.m. Puja
12.45 p.m. HAVAN
VIJAYADASHAMI - TUESDAY, 24TH OCTOBER 2023
07.30 a.m. Dashami Puja
08.50 a.m. Pushpanjali
10.00 a.m. Darpan Visarjan
04.00 p.m. Immersion of image at Gandhi Ghat, Juhu
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Sri Sri Lakshmi Puja
2023-10-28 18:00 - 2023-10-29 17:00
