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 | News of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission : 31 May 2009

 

Personalia

 

   Swami Atmasthanandaji, President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, is keeping well at Belur Math.

 Swami Smarananandaji, Vice-President, is scheduled to return to Belur Math on 3 June after his tour of Kochi and Thrissur.  He will be visiting Cooch Behar, Mekhliganj, Bilasipara and New Bongaigaon from 10 June to 1 July.  He is in good health.

Swami Gitanandaji, Vice-President, will be visiting Jorhat from 14 to 28 June.  He is keeping well. 

     Swami Prameyanandaji, Vice-President, will be visiting Swamiji’s Ancestral House, Kolkata, from 2 to 6 June and Guwahati, Shillong, Cherrapunji and Shella from 12 June to 5 July.  He is keeping well.

News of Branch Centres : INDIA

 Swami Smarananandaji, Vice-President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, inaugurated the newly built extension to the monks’ quarters at Itanagar centre on 8 May.

  Itanagar centre celebrated its 30th Anniversary on 10 and 11 May.  Sri J J Singh, Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, inaugurated the new Out Patient Department (OPD) block of the hospital.  Swami Smarananandaji declared open a new building housing Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) and eye ward.  He also presided over the public meeting which was addressed by several distinguished speakers.  Many monks and dignitaries attended the celebration.

 

The following centres conducted summer camps for children.  The programme included chanting, bhajans, moral lessons, yogasanas, etc.

Summer Camps


Belgaum
 Duration of the camp :  Four weeks (from 15 April to 10 May)
 Participants : 140 boys in the age group 10-16
 


Hyderabad
 Duration of the camp : Four weeks ( from 26 April to 23 May)
 Participants : 1030 children in the age group 8-15
 



Rajkot
 Duration of the camp : Four weeks (from 4 to 29 May)
 Participants : 167 children in the age group 7-13
 



Ulsoor
Duration of the camp : Two weeks (from  3 to 17 May)
 Participants : 220 children in the age group 9-15




The following centres conducted free eye camps:

Sl.
No.

Centre

Duration of camps

Patients checked / treated

Surgeries

no.

performed at
1

Belgaum

April

87

23

Our Sarada Netralaya in Belgaum

5

A hospital in Belgaum
2

Lucknow

May

571

161

Our Lucknow hospital
3

Porbandar

8 May

104

28

A hospital in Virnagar, Rajkot district
4

Salem

May

400

–

—
5

Saradapitha

April & May

697

95

Two hospitals in Hooghly district
6

Silchar

May

201

82

Two hospitals in Silchar
7

Ulsoor

May

280

153

A hospital in Bangalore


 

Communication  Addresses 

Germany centre has purchased an additional house near Frankfurt.  The opening ceremony was performed on 17 May.  Henceforth the contact address of the centre will be:

Vedanta Gesellschaft
Pestalozzistrasse 2
63165 Muehlheim (Main)
Germany
Phone: (49) 6108-823105; Fax: (49) 6108-823107
Additional e-mail address: <vedantagesellschaft@gmail.com>.

The Headquarters Office has changed its following email addresses:

Department

Old Address

New Address

General

<rkmhq@vsnl.com>

<rkmhq@belurmath.org>

Relief

<rkmrelief@vsnl.net>

<relief@belurmath.org>

Muzaffarpur centre has changed its website address to <www.rkmmuzaffarpur.org>.

Narainpur centre has now only the following two email addresses: <rkm.narainpur@gmail.com> and <office.rkmanpr@gmail.com>.  The other email addresses have been discontinued.

The office of the Secretary of Saradapitha centre, Belur, has got a new email address <secy_484813@bsnl.in>.

 

Obituary

   We are sorry to announce the passing away of Swami Sarvagatanandaji (Narayan Maharaj) on 3 May at 5.30 am local time (3 pm IST) at Boston (USA) centre.  He was 96 and had been suffering from old-age ailments for some years.  The end came peacefully.  An initiated disciple of Swami Akhandanandaji (a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna), he joined the Order at Kankhal Sevashrama in 1935 and had Sannyasa from Swami Virajanandaji in 1944.  He served at Kankhal centre for eight years and Karachi (formerly our branch centre) for five years.  He was the head of Vishakhapatnam centre for six years.  In 1954 he was sent to USA as Assistant Minister of Boston and Providence centres.  He became the head of these centres in 1962, and continued in that position until 2001 (Providence) and 2002 (Boston).  Thereafter he had been living a retired life at the Boston centre and continued to meet the devotees and guide them.  His untiring service to Vedanta work in Boston and Providence, his unbounded love for devotees and, above all, his sterling spiritual life were a source of inspiration to all.

 


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