Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru

Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru was established on 11th June 1925 by Swami Siddheswarananda an initiated disciple of Swami Brahmananda. In 1932 the Maharaja of Mysore made a grant which enabled construction of a small building and for holding a Vedanta study circle for Swamis. Many reputed scholars took classes for Monks and Brahmacharis who came from various centres of the Ramakrishna Order. All our stalwart monks were studying in this Mysore study circle. The Mysore study circle was in a way the nucleus of the now well established Training Centre for the monastic probationers in Belur Math. The literary colossus of Karnataka, K.V Puttappa (Kuvempu) had his initial training in Mysore Ashrama during his student days, and he had his spiritual initiation from Swami Shivananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Ranganathanandaji Maharaj the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order joined the order in Mysore and had his initial training for 9 years.

Our Inspiration

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna — Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and passed away in 1886, represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers and sages of India. His whole life was literally an uninterrupted contemplation of God. He reached a depth of God-consciousness that transcends all time and place and has a universal appeal. Seekers of God of all religions feel irresistibly drawn to his life and teachings. Sri Ramakrishna, as a silent force, influences the spiritual thought currents of our time. He is a figure of recent history and his life and teachings have not yet been obscured by loving legends and doubtful myths. Through his God-intoxicated life Sri Ramakrishna proved that the revelation of God takes place at all times and that God-realization is not the monopoly of any particular age, country, or people. In him, deepest spirituality and broadest catholicity stood side by side.

Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi — 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.

Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda visited Mysore city in November 1892 as part of his parivrajaka wanderings through the length and breadth of India. Though at that time he was an unknown monk and his stay at Mysore was relatively short, he by virtue of his extraordinary personality, erudition and spiritual magnetism, attracted the attention of a large number of citizen that included most distinguished and notable men of Mysore like the Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar , the then Dewan of Mysore State Sir Sheshadri Iyer. Swami Vivekananda in the initial days of his stay resided in the Niranjana Matha, on the Narayama Sastri Road that was centred around an ancient Shiva temple and located adjacent to the Dewans house.

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P u b l i c a t i o n

Mysuru Ashrama has the largest publication of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature in Karnataka.

"VIVEKA PRABHA” (ವಿವೇಕಪ್ರಭ) is the only Kannada Magazine which is being published by The Ramakrishna Maha Sangha. This magazine was released in 2000. The magazine features writings by renounced monks and also the leading writers and is read by over 25,000 readers across the state of Karnataka and also outside. .

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“Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre – Viveka Smaraka”

Proposed “Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre – Viveka Smaraka” to be built at the sanctified grounds where Swami Vivekananda stayed during his visit to Mysuru in 1892. Numerous skill and knowledge based short-term courses along with much needed values, will be imparted based on the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda through this institution.

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Educational Activities

Ramakrishna Institution of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE)

Events and Announcements

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Ashrama Invitations by Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama Mysuru

Admirers and devotees, who are in sympathy with the objects of the organization, but are unable to take part in our various types of work chalked out by Swami Vivekananda for serving humanity, are cordially invited to help us by contributing the Funds, which need their active support.

All these activities are conducted as service, service to God in man.

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Swami Vivekananda Statue

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