Ramakrishna Mission

• Ramakrishna Mission president Swami Smaranananda passed away due to old age ailments at the age of
• He became the 16th president of the order in 2017.

ABOUT RAMAKRISHNA MISSION:

• The Ramakrishna Mission is a Hindu religious and spiritual organization that is at the heart of the Ramakrishna Movement, also known as the Vedanta Movement.
• The mission was created on May 1, 1897, by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s principal follower Swami Vivekananda, and is named after and inspired by the Indian spiritual Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
• The organization primarily promotes Advaita Vedanta, a Hindu philosophy, as well as four yogic ideals: Jnana, Bhakti, Karma, and Raja yoga.
• Vivekananda advocated for the application of technology and contemporary science to the benefit of humanity.
• At Baranagar, the first Math was founded.
• Another math was established in Belur in 1899, and it became the central math.
• It is responsible for the organizing and operation of all maths’ located across India and even beyond the country.
• It is also the educational center for the Ramakrishna Mission’s saints.

ABOUT RAMAKRISHNA PARMAHAMSA

• Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, a poor Brahmin priest who later became known as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
• On the 18th of February 1836, Sri Ramakrishna was born into a poor Brahmana family in the Bengali hamlet of
• He had no formal education in philosophy or Shastras, and his schooling ended at the primary level.
• Ramakrishna was a priest at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple who drew a large number of monastic and lay followers.
• Sarada Devi, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s spiritual companion, was also his wife.
• Narendra Nath Datta (1863-1902), later known as Swami Vivekananda, was Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s most ardent disciple who spread Ramakrishna’s teachings throughout the world, particularly in America and Europe.