centenary celebrations of Bangalore centre

[Guest guest]

hi all,

namaste.

 

The bangalore ashrama is celebrating its centenary

year. In association with it several programmes have

been arranged, in different phases.

 

* Bangalore centre was established by Swami

Ramakrishnananda and visited by Swami Brahmananda and

Swami Abhedananda.

 

* It has the unique distinction of being the one of

the maths where holy mother stayed (Jairambati,

Koalpara, Udbodhan and Belur Math are other centres).

During her pilgrimage to south India, mother was moved

by seeing the devotion of southerners and at Bangalore

centre she said " if only i could understand and speak

a few words in this language " . Several interesting

incidents took place during that period. The rock on

which holy mother meditated here is a centre of

pilgrimage and is known as " The holy mother's rock " (

Read for

morehttp://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/magazine/vk/2004/11-3-3.asp

)

 

* Swami Brahmananda had the vision of Hanuman when the

Rama-namavali " shuddha brahma paratpara " was being

sung. Thencefourth the song is sung on every Ekadashi

at all the centres.

 

* Swami Tyagishanandaji, a great Gandhian was the

president of math here. He started the hostel for poor

boys " Vidyarthi mandiram " with the first inmate being

a harijan. So popular the hostel became that, rich

devotees begged swamiji to admit their kids to this

hostel. Dr D. M. Nanjundappa (VC of Karnatak

university, economist etc) and Dr. H Narasimhayya

(Gandhian and VC of Bangalore university) were some of

the inmates of this hostel and still participate in

the activites of centre.

 

* Swami Yatishwarananda was the president of this

centre. Ramakrishna appeared before him and demanded

that a temple be built for him. Till then the centre

had almost no infrasturcture !

 

* Swami Chidanandaji, Swami Prabuddhanandaji, Swami

Harshanandaji became the subsequent heads of centre.

 

* Next to Belur math, bangalore centre is has highest

number of devotees

 

* After Bengal, Karnataka has contributed highest

number of monastic members to the order, most of them

from Bangalore centre

 

* Along with Mysore centre, Bangalore centre is the

chief publishing house of

Ramakrishna-Vivekananda-Vedanta literature. All the

great poets of Kannada Kuvempu, Bendre etc. were

highly influenced by Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. The

state anthem of Karnataka includes the name of both

Paramahamsa and Vivekananda !

 

The list goes on...

I could only attend the programmes of Saturday and

Sunday and thought of sharing these. Excuse me for I

have hurridly put these lines.

 

regards,

vikas