Celebrations - Maha Sivaratri & Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna Birthday

1. Maha Sivaratri Worship on 13-2-2018
2. 180th Birthday Celebrations of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna on 17-2-2018
3. Public Celebration of the Birthday of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna on 04-3-2018

The Birthday of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna will be celebrated with Religious, Cultural & Welfare programmes in:

1. Colombo,

2. Batticaloa

3. Urumpirai, Jaffna,

4. Kilinochchi

5. Viswamadu, Mullaitivu.

6. Hulandawa Estate, Akkuressa

SRI RAMAKRISHNA [1836-1886]

Life of Sri Ramakrishna

If you don’t have the resources

‘Charity does not need money.’

It is about giving your time.”

“Sri Ramakrishna’s message was unique in being expressed in action. Religion is not just a matter for study, it is something that has to be experienced and to be lived, and this is the field in which Sri Ramakrishna manifested his uniqueness. His religious activity and experience were, in fact, comprehensive to a degree that had perhaps never before been attained by any other religious genius, in India or elsewhere.”
—Arnold Toynbee

Prayer

O Krishna, Thou loving Shepherd of the people,

Buddha, Lord of infinite compassion,

Jesus, Thou lover and Saviour of the soul,

Ramakrishna, Thou face of the Divine Mother, and

Vivekananda of the mighty heart,

May Ye and all the nameless Masters of the spirit,

Receive and save this soul.

(From Sister Nivedita's An Indian Study of Love & Death)

Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

“Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’. The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.”

“Knowledge leads to unity; ignorance to diversity.”

“When God is realised, the world never appears empty. He who has attained Him sees that the Lord Himself has become all these—the universe and its creatures.”