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DAKSHINESWAR, ADYAPEETH 

Dakshineswar Ramkrishna Sangha Adyapeath – In 1915, a young Brahmin named Annada Charan Bhattacharya was setting up a successful practice in Ayurvedic medicine in Calcutta. A capable scientist, he had discovered seven patent medicines and went on to become a renowned doctor all over Bengal.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bangla: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস Ramkṛiṣṇo Pôromôhongśo) (February 18, 1836 – August 16, 1886), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae), was a famous mystic of 19th-century India. His religious school of thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda – both were influential figures in the Bengali Renaissance as well as the Hindu renaissance during the 19th and 20th centuries.Many of his disciples and devotees believe he was an avatar or incarnation of God. Ramakrishna was born in a poor Brahmin Vaishnava family in rural Bengal. He became a priest of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, dedicated to the goddess Kali, which had the influence of the main strands of Bengali bhakti tradition.  Read More: > HERE <

Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are twin organizations which form the core of a worldwide spiritual movement (known as Ramakrishna Movement or Vedanta Movement), which aims at the harmony of religions, harmony of the East and the West, harmony of the ancient and the modern, spiritual fulfillment, all-round development of human faculties, social equality, and peace for all humanity, without any distinctions of creed, caste, race or nationality.

RAMAKRISHNA MATH is a monastic organization for men brought into existence by Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), the great 19th century saint of Bengal who is regarded as the Prophet of the Modern Age.

RAMAKRISHNA MISSION is a registered society in which monks of Ramakrishna Math and lay devotees cooperate in conducting various types of social service mainly in India. It was founded by Sri Ramakrishna chief apostle, > SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (vedanta, jnana yoga )< (1863-1902), one of the foremost thinkers and religious leaders of the present age, who is regarded as ‚one of the main moulders of the modern world‘, in the words of an eminent Western scholar A. L. Basham.

The ideology of Ramakrishna Math and Mission consists of the eternal principles of Vedanta as lived and experienced by Sri Ramakrishna and expounded by Swami Vivekananda.  This ideology has three characteristics: it is modern in the sense that the ancient principles of Vedanta have been expressed in the modern idiom; it is universal, that is, it is meant for the whole humanity; it is practical in the sense that its principles can be applied in day-to-day life to solve the problems of life.


The motto of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission is: Atmano mokshartham jagad hitaya cha, „For one’s own salvation, and for the welfare of the world“. The main goals and objectives of these twin organizations, based on the principles of Practical Vedanta, are:

  • To spread the idea of the potential divinity of every being and how to manifest it through every action and thought.
  • To spread the idea of harmony of religions based on Sri Ramakrishna’s experience that all religions lead to the realization of the same Reality known by different names in different religions. The Mission honours and reveres the founders of all world religions such as Buddha, Christ and Mohammed.
  • To treat all work as worship, and service to man as service to God.
  • To make all possible attempts to alleviate human suffering by spreading education, rendering medical service, extending help to villagers through rural development centres, etc.
  • To work for the all-round welfare of humanity, especially for the uplift of the poor and the downtrodden.
  • To develop harmonious personalities by the combined practice of Jnana, Bhakti, Yoga and Karma.

Sarada Devi (Bengali: সারদা দেবী) (1853—1920), born Saradamani Mukhopadhyaya, was the wife and spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth century mystic of Bengal. Sarada Devi is also reverentially addressed as the Holy Mother (Sri Maa) by the followers of the Ramakrishna monastic order. Sarada Devi played an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement.  Read More: > HERE <

Endearingly known as ‘Holy Mother’, Sri Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna, was born on 22 December 1853 in a poor Brahmin family in Jayrambati, a village adjoining Kamarpukur in West Bengal. Her father, Ramachandra Mukhopadhyay, was a pious and kind-hearted person, and her mother, Shyama Sundari Devi, was a loving and hard-working woman.

Fundamental Concepts of Vedanta – ABSTRACT Modern Science & Vedanta-II e

Fundamental Concepts of Vedanta, by Sachin Gupta :

 

  • Everything living & nonliving is interpenetrated by Brahman, the all pervading consciousness.
  • (Sarvam Khalu Idam Brahma – Chandogya Upanishad)

 

  • The finite has infinite as its background .The smallest contains the greatest.
  • (Anoranian Mahto mahiyan – Katha Upanishad)

 

  • The individual soul-Atman is therefore identified with the universal soul-Brahman.
  • (Aham Brahmasmi – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)

 

  • In the holistic universe, everything is fundamentally interconnected by a common background – the Brahman.
  • (Mayi Sarvam Idam Protam Sutr Manigana Iva – Bhagvad Gita)

 

  • In this space-time-causation world of maya things happen without any apparent or local cause .
  • (Aghatana ghatana patiyasi Maya)

 

  • External world which is transitory, therefore unreal, is created by our consciousness.
  • (Drisyah Dhirvttayah – Drk Drsya Viveka)

 

  • All energy or force in the universe is derived from One cosmic energy-Prana.
  • (Prana vai satyam – Bradaranyaka Upanishad)

 

  • The Absolute has become the relative through space-time and causation. The relative-space-time is, nothing but the Absolute itself seen through the glasses of space-time-causation.
  • Atman = Brahman (“Atman is Brahman : Brahman is Atman”)

 

  • Absolute or Infinite can’t be two.
  • (Ekam Eva Advityam)

 

  • Truth is one: sages call it by various names
  • (Ekam Sat Vipra Bhaudha Vadanti)

 

  • One and many are the same Reality. This One or Unity has been described by monistic Vedanta as Advaita (non-dual)
  • (A=Not, DAITA=Two)

 

  • This REALITY is OMNIJECTIVE = Objective + Subjective