Ramakrishna Math
Swami Vivekananda Road, Halasuru, Bengaluru 560 008, India
Phone: 080-2557 8900; Telefax: 080-2536 7878
E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.ramakrishnamath.in
Founded in 1906, this ashrama remained a sub-centre of the Bengaluru (Bull Temple Road) centre till December 1998. It was made a full-fledged branch of the Ramakrishna Math in 1999.
Activities:
- A library and a reading room with 7558 books and 28 periodicals and newspapers.
- A charitable allopathic dispensary (24,021 patients treated) and eye camps (322 patients were operated on for cataract).
- A coaching centre in a village (100 students) and another on the Math campus with 50 students.
- Conducting Yuvak Sangha and Balak Sangha (cultural and recreational centres for 35 young men and boys), cultural competitions, seminars and summer retreats for 125 students.
- Daily worship and bhajans, weekly discourses in the ashrama and elsewhere and retreats.
- Celebration of the birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, other religious personalities.
- Welfare work by way of distribution of educational aids to school children, and clothes and pecuniary help to the poor and needy.
