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April 27, 2005

ALL THE MEMBERS OF YOGA CONFEDERATION OF INDIA PRAY FOR THE GREAT SOUL, MAY GOD BE WITH HIM ! THE GREAT SOUL

VIJAY TIWARI

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Today's Stories:1. President of Ramakrishna Math and Mission Passes On At Age 962. Tirupati Temple Change Procurement Procedures3. Invitation To Mahakumbabhishekam In Central Florida1. President of Ramakrishna Math and Mission Passes On At Age 96http://www.thestatesman.org/page.news.php? clid=2 & theme= & usrsess=1 & id=75222KOLKATA, INDIA, April 25, 2005: Swami Ranganathananda, president of Ramkrishna Math and Mission, breathed his last after a cardiac arrest today. He was 96. He attained Mahasamadhi at 3.51 a.m. at Woodlands Hospital where he was admitted on April 17. His cremation rites will be performed tomorrow around 12.30 p.m. within Belur Math (monastery) premises. His body would lie at the Math till tomorrow morning where visitors and disciples will be allowed to pay their last respects. Condoling Swami

Ranganathananda's death, Governor Mr. Gopal Krishna Gandhi said: "The revered Swami was a beacon light of intellectual energy and sublime spirituality. His profound understanding of India's multi-cultural civilization influenced several generations of Indians." Expressing his grief, chief minister Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said: "I had known him personally. He was a man of great knowledge."An orator and a scholar par excellence, Swami Ranganathananda, known as Sankaran in his early life, was born in Trikkur village in Kerala on 15 December, 1908. In 1926, he was initiated by Swami Shivanandaji Maharaj, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, at Ootacamund. He then joined the Ramakrishna Order at its Mysore branch. He received brahmacharya vows in 1929 and sanyasa vows in 1933, both from his guru, Swami Shivanandaji Maharaj, the second president of the Ramakrishna Order, at Belur Math. He worked as secretary and librarian at the

Ramakrishna Mission Centre at Rangoon from 1939 to 1942 and thereafter as head of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission in Karachi from 1942 to 1948. He was also the secretary of the New Delhi Centre, October 1949 to March 1962. From April, 1962 to November, 1967 he served as secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Kolkata, as well as director of its School of Humanistic and Culture Studies and editor of its monthly journal. From 1973 to 1993, he was the president of the Ramakrishna Math in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Between 1946 and 1972, Swami Ranganathananda undertook extensive lecture tours covering 50 countries. Since 1961, Swami Ranganathananda was one of the trustees of the Ramakrishna Math and a member of the governing body of Ramakrishna Mission. Between 1994 and 1998, he served as the vice-president of Ramakrishna Math and Mission. He became the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order on 7 September,

1998.2. Tirupati Temple Change Procurement Procedureshttp://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp? main_variable=STATES & file_name=state16%2Etxt & counter_img=16TIRUPATI, INDIA, April 25, 2005: In a move that is sure to create a furore in the all-strong procurement cartel supplying commodities worth millions of rupees to the Tirupati Temple on a daily basis, the shrine trust has decided to shift to full time e-procurement and do away with the cartel altogether. The Temple is the largest purchaser of commodities like sugar, cardamom and cashew in the country. Its e-procurement plans hinge on a state-of-the-art on-line commodity trading terminal which has been installed in the temple complex for the purpose of online and direct price monitoring. A highly placed source in the Tirupati Thirumala Devasthanam told The Pioneer on phone from Tirupati that the e-procurement move would be a big step in efficiency and cost as

it would eliminate the big cartel of middlemen which currently supply commodities to the temple worth US$68 million, and on a big cut. "Besides introducing transparency into the transaction and giving all bidders an equal playing field, the move will also ensure the quality of the procured product with specific liability on the warehouse concerned, which was not the case till now," the source said. The move is expected to ruffle the 30-plus contractors who have a stronghold on the million-rupee TTD procurements which include a host of materials needed for the daily prasadam. As many as 2,000 liters of ghee is bought by the Temple daily and almost 200 kg high grade cashew is used up for puja and the laddoos. "Through a newly installed commodities terminal at the Temple, the TTD procurement department can now view the prices from NMCE, NCDEX & MCX exchanges and it has become easy for them to directly monitor the market price

fluctuations of cardamom, cashew, turmeric and jaggery," Giby Mathew, managing director of Kochi-based JRG Wealth Management, the company which installed the terminal, said.3. Invitation To Mahakumbabhishekam In Central Floridahttp://www.hindutempleorlando.orgORLANDO, FLORIDA, April 22, 2005: The Hindu Society of Central Florida invites you to participate in the auspicious occasion of Maha Kumbabhishekam celebration and dedication ceremony of their new Vedic temple located at 1994 Lake Drive, Casselberry, Florida. The ceremonies and festivities will begin Wednesday, June 15, 2005, and continue until Sunday, June 19. The festive occasion will mark the success of several years of planning and fund raising. Among the dignitaries, HH Satguru Bodhinatha Veylan Swami, publisher of Hinduism Today, will be on hand for the occasion on June 18 and 19. The Kumbabhishekam of all installed Deities and Gopurams will be performed

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