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Swami Akhandananda Tithi Puja
2021-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
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

Ekadasi / Ram Naam Sankirtanam
2021-10-02 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-09-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-09-03 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-08-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-08-04 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-07-20 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-07-05 17:30 - 18:30, 2021-06-21 17:30 - 18:30 and 7 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

Swami Abhedananda Tithi Puja
2021-09-30 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

SRI SRI GANESH PUJA 2021
2021-09-10 08:00 - 2021-09-11 17:00
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Sri Krishna Janmashtami
2021-08-30 20:00 - 23:30
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Swami Niranjanananda Tithi Puja
2021-08-22 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

Swami Ramakrishnananda Tithi Puja
2021-08-06 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 Jyotiratmananda. The discourse will be streamed live on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live

GURU PURNIMA
2021-07-24
Sri GURU PURNIMA with special Puja of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna will be celebrated at the Ramakrishna Math on Saturday, July 24, 2021.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
As per the guidelines issued by the Government to avoid social gathering, an entry in the temple premises will not be allowed to devotees/public for all the functions mentioned in this letter. However, live streaming of the functions would be made through the link www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live.

Shodashi Puja
2021-06-09 21:00 - 23:30
SHODASHI PUJA
Wednesday, 9th June 2021
Programme Details
09.00 p.m. Special Puja, Bhajan
11.00 p.m. Arati
(The puja will be streamed live on our youtube channel www.youtube.com/rkmkhar)

History and Significance:
On 5th June 1872, on Phalaharini Kali-puja night, Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna worshipped Sarada Devi as Shodashi, the Mother of the Universe. The Mother of the Universe is variously worshipped —as Durga, Kali, Tara, Shodashi and so on. But, in his room he uttered the “mantras” which are related to Shodashi and worshipped Sarada Devi duly with flowers, bel leaves and sweets, among other things.

Sri Buddhadeva Jayanti
2021-05-26 19:00 - 20:30
There will be a discourse on the life & teachings of Gautam Buddha by Swami Dayamurtyananda after evening arati.

Sri Ramakrishna Deva Tithi Puja
2021-03-15

Result Essay Writing Competition
2021-03-15 - 2021-04-12
Inter-Collegiate Essay-writing competition result
Monday, 15th March 2021 at 4.00 pm

ENGLISH LANGUAGE – ESSAY RESULTS
HINDI LANGUAGE – ESSAY RESULTS
MARATHI LANGUAGE – ESSAY RESULTS

TOTAL ESSAYS RECEIVED – 503
NO. OF PRIZES DECLARED – 66

MAHASHIVARATRI
2021-03-11 19:30 - 2021-03-12 07:00
MAHASHIVARATRI
Thursday, 11th March 2021

Puja Time
Particulars

8.15 pm
Puja Starts-1st Prahar

11.00 pm
2nd Prahar

1.00 am
3rd Prahar

3.00 am
4th Prahar

4.30 am
Havan

5.15 am
Prasad Distribution

Swami Adbhutananda Tithi Puja
2021-02-27 19:00 - 21:00
Pre-monastic name : Rakhturam, usually called Latu
Place of Birth : Chhapra in Bihar
Speaking about Latu Maharaj, Swami Vivekananda once said, “Latu is Sri Ramakrishna’s greatest miracle. Having absolutely no education, he has attained the highest wisdom simply by virtue of the Master’s touch”. Latu was the only disciple of Sri Ramakrishna who could not even read or write. He was born of very poor parents in a village in Bihar. He lost his parents in early boyhood. Poverty forced his uncle to take him to Kolkata where Latu was employed as a houseboy in the house of Ramachandra Datta, a close devotee of Sri Ramakrishna. The Master recognized the dormant spiritual potential in the boy and asked Ram to allow Latu to stay at Dakshineswar as an attendant. Under the guidance of the Master Latu practised intense sadhana, spending whole nights in meditation, a habit which he followed all through his life.
After Sri Ramakrishna’s passing, Latu joined Baranagar Math, and was ordained a sannyasin bearing the name Adbhutananda. He, however, spent most of his time in contemplation on the bank of the Ganga or in a room in Balaram Babu’s house.
Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission on 1897 and Belur Math in 1898. Latu Maharaj with his deep absorption in contemplative life could neither take up the service activities of the Mission nor follow the discipline and routine of the monastery. So Swami Vivekananda permitted him to follow his own way of life. After some years Adbhutananda moved to Varanasi where he lived alone, but his needs were taken care of by the Ramakrishna Home of Service. At the end of a brief ailment, he passed away in a meditative state on 24 April 1920.

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

Ekadasi / Ram Naam Sankirtanam
2021-02-21 17:00 - 18:30
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.)
Join the congregation in singing hymns to Lord Rama and partake of the Ekadasi Prasada (before the Arati).

Sri Saraswati Puja
2021-02-16
07.15 A.M. – Special Puja
10.15 A.M. – Pushpanjali
11.00 A.M. – Havan
As per the guidelines issued by the Government to avoid social gathering, physical darshan will not be allowed to devotees/public on Saraswati Puja (i.e. on 16.02.2021). However, live streaming of the function would be made through the link www.youtube.com/rkmkhar/live.
