Spiritual Retreat

Spiritual Retreat / Japa Yajna

Spiritual retreats are conducted for three days annually during July – August. Such retreats give an opportunity to live in the holy company of monks consecutively for three days, hear them give talks on varied spiritual topics, sing the glory of God, meditate — in short, live a spiritual life in holy company.

SARADA TAPOVAN – A RETREAT CENTRE

Sarada Tapovan, a retreat centre for devotees for intense study and sadhana has been started at Ramakrishna Mission, Vivekananda Institute of Values, Gurugram, Haryana.

The devotees wishing to participate in retreats can find the details of the retreat to be held next at https://viva.rkmm.org/spiritual-retreats

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Mandra Deeksha / Initiation

Most Revered President Maharaj or Revered Vice-President Maharaj will initiate the Spiritual Sadhaka…….

Registration

022 – 6181 8000

Contact Person

Swami Devakantyananda
Office In-Charge

Candidates

Limited up to 80

The Temple

The Traditional Hindu Temples

The Sri Ramakrishna Temples are distinct from the traditional Hindu temples. These were envisioned as a new type of temple that embody the ideals that Sri Ramakrishna represented; the harmony of all religions, the ideal of the unity of man and the synthesis of all faiths. Swami Vivekananda called it the ‘Universal Temple’.

The Temple at Mumbai situated at Khar incorporates the general principles of Universal Temples, with a large congregational space and an internal parikrama around the Sanctum Sanctorum. The beautiful white marble idol of Sri Ramakrishna seated on a full bloomed lotus faces the east, and is flanked by images of Swami Vivekananda and the Holy Mother.

The beautiful white marble idol of Sri Ramakrishna seated on a full bloomed lotus faces the east, and is flanked by images of Swami Vivekananda and the Holy Mother

The external surfaces are clad in Malad stone with doors to the temple on the east, north and south. The doors and windows have been treated externally with elegant decorative flower motifs and fluted borders in stone.

The façade has Rajasthani palace architecture influences, seen as a synthesis between Hindu and Islamic architectural traditions.

Message of Universality

The theme of universality is crystallized in Sri Ramakrishna’s dictum, “as many faiths, so many paths”.

Sri Ramakrishna’s own life reflected the journey to this realization – He worshipped and realized God in many forms (each time to the exclusion of all else) – leading to the recognition that the outcome of all paths, however different they may be from each other, is the same Universal One.

The theme of universality is carried through into the interior of the temple building. All along the walls of the main hall are paintings of religious teachers, saints, prophets and incarnations of the world’s major religions.

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