Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama @ Belgaum

Blankets and Sarees distribution in the year 2005

Blanket distribution:- As in previous occasions the Ashrama will carry on the service of distributing woollen blankets to poor people. The candidates will also be served with prasada and sweets.

Saree Distribution:- As part of Holy Mother Shri Sharada Devi’s Jayanti, sarees will be distributed to 500 poor women on this day.

The programme will be held on the Kalpaturu Day, 1^st January, 2008 at 4:30 pm

The cost incurred for one person for Blanket : Rs. 150/- & Saree : Rs. 200/-

We welcome sponsors for the event.

     Yours in the Lord,
Swami Raghaveshanada
        (Secretary)

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:

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

Thomas Carlyle is the author of the book ‘The French Revolution’. Once, John Stuart Mill, the famous Philosopher and writer asked him, would you kindly lend me the manuscript of your work ‘The French Revolution’ ? I would like to go through the first part of your work. ‘Carlyle readily gave him the manuscript.

Portraits of Thomas Carlyle (left) & John Stuart Mill (right)

After some days Mill knocked at his door one night and entered the hall in a dazed condition, ‘What is it Mill?’ asked Carlyle.

‘My friend,’ stammered the philosopher gasping; ‘I am ….. I am ….sorry; your manuscript was swept away by the maid and destroyed except for a few torn pages.’

Carlyle was stunned!

Gathering his wits, he slowly said, ‘Why do you keep standing? Pray sit down. Well, what has happened has happened. So do not worry.’

Mill sat down with a sigh. He talked with his friend for hours, well past midnight thinking that he should console Carlyle. In the end Carlyle came closer to him and said ‘Listen, my friend! Now do not think about it any more. Take it like this; it is like a master asking a pupil who has written a bad essay to rewrite it to perfection.’

Dear friend,

Spreading the divine life and message of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sharada Devi and Swami Vivekananda - The Holy Trio - is one of the important activities of the Ashrama. The Ashrama has been rendering this service to the students, youths and devotees from the beginning.

With the same objective in view, students’ convention, youth convention, and special satsang programmes for devotees were organized in some of the taluks of Belgaum District. To introduce and promote ‘Viveka Prabha’ the Kannada monthly magazine of the ‘Ramakrishna Order’ was the other objective of these programmes.

Swami Vireshanandaji Maharaj of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysore and the team of Sannyasins, Brahmacharis and volunteers of Belgaum Ashrama organized and conducted these programmes.

The details of the programmes are given below. Our heartfelt thanks go to all those who helped in organizing the programmes and also to those who participated in them.

May the Holy Trio bless them all immensely! We seek your prayers and support for such programmes.

Yours in the Lord
Swami Raghaveshananda
(Secretary)

DETAILS OF PROGRAMMES
Photos of the event are awaited

Date: 21/11/2007
Place: Moodalagi, Tq. Gokak Dt. Belgaum

• 600 participated in the Students Convention for High School Students
• 400 participated in the Students Convention for 10^th Standard & PUC Students
• 100 participated in the Satsanga programme for Devotees

Date: 22/11/2007
Place:Gokak

• 100 participated in the Youth Convention for College Students
• 800 participated in the Students Convention for  High School Students
• 200 participated in Satsanga programme for Devotees

Date: 23/11/2007
Place: Ghataprabha, Tq. Gokak Dt. Belgaum

• 400 participated in the Students Convention for 10^th Standard Students
• 300 participated in the Youth Convention for the students of K.H.I Nursing School
• 100 participated in the Satsanga programme for Devotees

Date: 24/11/07
Place: Savadatti, Tq. Bailhongal Dt. Belgaum

• 1200 participated in the Students Convention for High School Students
• 300 participated in the Youth Convention for College Students
• 100 participated in the Satsanga programme for Devotees

IN ALL
3400 students, 700 Youths & 500 Devotees (spiritual aspirants) Participated &
Ramakrishna - Vivekananda literature worth Rs.41,000/- were sold

The 155th Jayanti celebration of Holy Mother, Sri Sharada Devi will be held at the Ashrama on Sunday, December 30th, 2007.

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

Yours in the Lord,
Swami Raghaveshananda
Secretary

My son, if a thorn pricks your foot, it hurts me like a spear entering my heart. Never fear, and whenever you are in distress just say to yourself, “I have a mother”

~ Holy Mother