Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Belgaum

March 11, 2008

Sri Ramakrishna Jayanti

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Dear Friend,

The 173^rd Jayanti celebrations of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna will be observed at the Ashrama on Sunday, March 9^th,2008.

You and your friends are cordially invited to attend the function.

Yours in the Lord,
Swami Raghaveshananda
(Secretary)

PROGRAMME

Morning

6:15 am – 7:15 am :Usha Kirtana (Omkara, Vedaghosha, Bhajans, Dhyana)
8:00 am – 9:00 am : Special Puja
9:30 am : Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Parayana
10:00 am : Homa & Veda Ghosha
10:45 am : Bhajans
11:30 am : Pravachana
12:15 pm : Pushpanjali & Ramakrishna Ashtottara
12:30 pm : Namavali
12:45 pm : Mahamangalarati & Prasada Distribution

Evening

6:00 pm : Stotras & Bhajans
6:30 pm : Special Arati & Stotras
7:00 – 7:45 pm : Bhajans & Namavali

MAHASHIVARATRI will be observed on Thursday, 6^thMarch from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with special Puja & Bhajans

Donations in cash or kind for the celebration will be thankfully acknowledged .

February 2, 2008

Swami Vivekananda Jayanti 2008

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Dear Friend,

The 146th Jayanti Celebrations of Swami Vivekananda will be held at the Ashrama on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008.

You and your friends are cordially invited to attend the function.

Yours in the Lord,
Swami Raghaveshananda
Secretary

PROGRAMME

MORNING:

06:15 am – 7:15 am
Usha Kirtana (Omkara, Vedic Chanting, Guru Stuti, Bhajans, Meditation)

08:00 am – 9:00 am
Special Puja

09:30 am
Homa & Veda Ghosha

11:00 am
Bhajans

11:45 am
Pravachana

12:15 pm
Namavali & Bhajans

12:30 pm
Mahamangalarati
&
Prasada Distribution

EVENING:

6:00 pm
Bhajans

6:30 pm
Special Arati & Stotras

7:00 – 7:45 pm
Bhajans & Namavali

February 2, 2008

Annual Celebrations 2008

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Dear Friend,

The Universal Temple of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna at the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Belgaum was consecrated in January 2004.

To celebrate the completion of 4 years of this event, we have organized a 3-day programme at the Ashrama. These programmes are aimed at spreading the life and message of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sharada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.

The 3-day programme held from February 1st to February 3rd includes youth conventions – aimed at exhorting our youth to incorporate the man-making and character building teachings of Swami Vivekananda, devotees’ conventions, talks and cultural events. As a prelude to these celebrations various competitions for school students have also been organized on January 31st.

I extend a warm welcome to you, your relatives & friends to participate in these programmes. You can download the details of the programmes here.

Yours in the Lord,
Swami Raghaveshananda
(Secretary)

December 27, 2007

Inauguration of Sri Sharada Netralaya

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Dear Friend,

We are happy to inform you that the charitable eye hospital, Sri Sharada Netralaya has been set up in the Ashrama premises to render medical service.

The inauguration of this hospital will be held on Tuesday, 1st January, 2008 at 10:00 am.

SRI SURESH ANGADI
(Member of Parliament, Belgaum)

has agreed to be the chief guest and will inaugurate the hospital.

SRI D.R. PATIL
(MLA, Gadag)

SRI S.F. PATIL
(Superintendent Engineer, PWD, Belgaum)

will be the other guests of honour.

The guests will also distribute woollen blankets to poor people as another welfare service of the Ashrama to the society.

The following doctors have agreed to render their services to the hospital.

Dr. A. R. Khobre
Dr. V. V. Gramopadhye
Dr. Mrs. P. U. Gramopadhye
Dr. V. G. Govekar
Dr. S. A. Bagewadi
Dr. S. M. Baloji
Dr. S. A. Tebhla

We cordially invite you and your friends to be present on the occasion.

Yours in the Lord,
Swami Raghaveshananda
Secretary

Note:

Regular eye screening camps for cataract will be held at the hospital.
Operations for selected candidates will also be performed at the hospital free of cost.

September 18, 2007

Report of the August Conventions

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To inspire students, youths, teachers with character building and man-making ideals, the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Belgaum had organized various conventions on August 21 & 22, 2007. Apart from these conventions lecture programmes were held for MBBS students, Doctors and PG Students, staff Nurses at KLES’ Hospital and at Belgaum Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS).

Students gathering on the day of the convention

Sri Swami Bodhamayanandaji Maharaj, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, T.Nagar, Chennai, Sri Swami Atmaprananandaji and Swami Yukteshanandaji (Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Belgaum), Dr Gururaj Karajagi (Chairman, International Academy of Creative Teaching, Bangalore), Sri Chakravarthi Sulibele (well known columnist and orator) addressed the gathering during these conventions.

The guests of honour were Sri K.D. Birje (Additional Commissioner, Belgaum), Sri S. Jayakumar (Deputy Director of Public Instructions, Belgaum) & Sri Raghavendra Auradker (Inspector General of Police, Northern Range, Belgaum). The conventions were held in the Ashrama premises thus providing a congenial atmosphere for deep and noble thinking.

Features of the conventions:

Vedic Chanting & Bhajans

Lectures with Multimedia Presentation

Exhibition & sale of Books, CDs & Cassettes

Lunch Prasad & Tea/Snacks for all participants

Free distribution of books on Character building, Personality Development and on life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda
Video Recordings of the Conventions are available & can be ordered.

Details:

Date	Time	Participants	Nos
Aug 21	10 – 12:30 pm	10th Standard Students (In English)	600
	3-5:15 pm	10th Standard Students (in Kannada)	550
	3:45 – 5:30 pm	Lecture for 1st year MBBS at Belgaum institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS)	100
Aug 22	10 – 12:45 pm	High School Teachers (in Kannada)	400
	10:30 – 12 pm	Lecture for Doctors, Post Graduate Students at KLES’ Hospital	100
	3-6 pm	College Students	800
	7-8:30 pm	Lecture for Doctors, MBBS Students and staff nurses at BIMS	100

The Response:

The conventions and lectures were aimed at providing noble thoughts to the participants to strengthen their personality. Ideas that inspire students, youths and teachers were put forward during the conventions.

Teachers’ Convention

Youth Convention

The response was overwhelming. The interest shown by the participants was clear by the way they welcomed these ideas. Throughout the sessions there was quiet and order showing that the participants were deeply absorbed in the programme.

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Strength, strength, it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. with weakness come ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

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Never be weak. You must be strong; you have infinite strength within you.

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Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak.

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Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that is the source of all selfishness; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality.

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This is the great fact: Strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.

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It is very easy to say, "Hate nobody, resist not evil," but we know what that kind of thinking generally means in practice. When the eyes of society are turned towards us, we may make a show of non-resistance, but in our hearts it is canker all the time... This hypocrisy and will serve no purpose.

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Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannized over by the rick. Strength is the medicine that the ignorance must have when oppressed by the learned.

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Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

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Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life. Strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them? Would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin? Will weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.

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"Knowledge is power," says the proverb, does is not? It is through knowledge that power come. man has got to know that he is man of infinite power and strength. Really he himself is by his own nature potent and omniscient. And this he must know. And the more he becomes conscious of his own Self, the more he manifests this power, and his bonds break and at last he becomes free.

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Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves.

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You may pray to everyone that was ever born, but who will come to help you?... Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee, friend...Get hold of the Self, then. Stand up. Don't be afraid. In the midst of all miseries and all weakness, let the Self come out, faint and imperceptible though it be at first.

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You know in your inmost heart that many of your limited ideas, this humbling of yourself and praying and weeping to imaginary being are superstitions. Tell me one case where these prayers have been answered. All the answers that came were from you own hearts.

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Our power, and blessedness, and wisdom, cannot but grow into the Infinite. Infinite power and existence and blessedness are ours, and we have not to acquire them; they are our own, and we have only to manifest them.

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Man stands on the glory of his own soul, the infinite, the eternal, the deathless - that soul which no instruments can pierce, which no air can dry, nor fire can burn, no water can wet, the infinite, the birthless, the deathless, without beginning and without end, before whose glory space melts away into nothingness and time vanishes into non-existence. This glorious soul we must believe in. Out of that will come power.

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Believe, therefore, in yourselves, and if you want material wealth, work it out; it will come to you. If you want to be intellectual, work it out on the intellectual plan, and intellectual giants you shall be. And if you want to attain to freedom, work it out on the spiritual plane, and free you shall be and shall enter into Nirvana, the eternal Bliss.

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Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow - never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings! Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

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Truth, purity, and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole Universe in opposition

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