An Appeal for Rehabilitation Project in Visuvamadu—Mullaitivu

A Rehabilitation Project  in Visuvamadu—Mullaitivu

Activities Started under Trees in 2012- now in Thatched Shed.

An Appeal to set up

Hall cum Classroom with

Amano Cooling Roofing - Size 100 x 20 feet.

Estimated cost for the improvements - US $ 8000

 

Websites

http://www.rkmceylon.org
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rkmcey/
 

Album – 31-8-2018

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rkmcey/albums/72157699209218531

Feeding children

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rkmcey/albums/72157696662654514

https://photos.app.goo.gl/zDqe9sNX5vrz6eBF8

 

Retreat on 28-4-2018

Satsangam on 28-4-2018

At
Tambyah Mudaliyar Chathiram
30/11-54, St Anothny Mawatha,
Colombo 13.

About Tambyah Mudaliyar Chathiram 

Sri Ramakrishna Birthday Public Celebration - 04-03-2018

Sri Ramakrishna’s message was unique in being expressed in action.

The message itself was the perennial message of Hinduism. 

As Swami Ghanananda points out, Hinduism is unique among the historic higher religions in holding that neither Hinduism nor any other religion is the only truth or only way to salvation.

In the Hindu view, each of the higher religions is a true vision and a right path, all alike indispensable to humankind. Each gives a different glimpse to the same Truth, and each leads by a different route to the same goal. Each religion, therefore has a special spiritual value of its own which is not to be found in any of the others.

To know this is good, but it is not enough. Religion is not just a matter for study—it is something that has to be experienced and to be lived. This is the field in which Sri Ramakrishna manifested his uniqueness.

Sri Ramakrishna's life

One House, Many Doors: The Legacy of Sri Ramakrishna

by Linda Johnsen

Sri Ramakrishna 

tava kathamrtam tapta-jivanam

kavibhir iditam kalmasapaham

sravana-mangalam srimad atatam

bhuvi grnanti ye bhuri-da janah

The nectar of Your words and the descriptions of Your activities are the life and soul of those suffering in this material world. These narrations, transmitted by learned sages, eradicate one’s sinful reactions and bestow good fortune upon whoever hears them. These narrations are broadcast all over the world and are filled with spiritual power. Certainly those who spread the message of Godhead are most munificent.

तव कथामृतं तप्तजीवनं

कविभिरीडितं कल्मषापहम् ।

श्रवणमङ्गलं श्रीमदाततं

भुवि गृणन्ति ते भूरिदा जनाः ॥ ९॥

Satsangam at Thambyah Chathiram on 24-2-2018

Satsang / Satsanga / Satsangam is a word which comes from Sanskrit, meaning "to associate with true people", to be in the company of true people - sitting with a sat guru, or in a group meeting seeking that association. Inner satsang is to raise the consciousness to a level of realization that soul (atma) and Lord (Parmatma) are One.

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Commemoration of Stay /visit/ Use of Thambyah Mudaliyar Chathiram

By Swami Vivekananda & 7 Direct Disciples

of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Deva.

Significance of Thabyah Chathiram in Ramakrishna Movement

On 7^th of August 2017.

Source

Extractsfrom “Ramakrishna Movement of Sri Lanka” by Swami Virupakshananda

Swami Vivekananda’s Second Visit

The Ramakrishna Movement can be said to have really come to Sri Lanka when its founder-leader Swami Vivekananda, landed in Colombo in January, 1897 on his way back to India from the West. He was no more an unknown monk. This time, he landed on the soil of Sri Lanka as a world celebrity and as a prophet of a new order of things. The Hindu Community of Sri Lanka had all along noted with keen interest and pride the signal success achieved by the Swami in spreading the message of the Hindu faith in the West at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in the City of Chicago in September, 1893. Some of the more popular local dailies had carried the news of the ‘arrival of the Hindu sage’ in Colombo by the ‘Prinz Regent Luitpold’ on the 15th of January, 1897. This was enough to rouse the enthusiasm of the local Hindu Community to instant activity. A large number of Hindus assembled at the Tambyah Chatram to consider the steps to be taken for the purpose. To meet the expenses a subscription list was started and a sum of about Rs. 800/- was collected on the spot.2

Arrival of Swami Shivananda

In the early part of July, 1897, a middle-aged ochre-clad sannyasin from far-off Calcutta, India, landed at the Colombo Port. Many prominent Hindus of Colombo were ready at hand with flowers and garlands, expecting eagerly the arrival of the Swami. The Swami was received, on landing, with oriental greetings and respects due to a sage, and was conducted to Thambyah Chatram where he was to stay for the next seven or eight months, spreading the message of Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Shivananda, for that was the name of the apostle, was one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and brother-disciple of Swami Vivekananda at whose behest he had come to the Island to continue the work of propagating the Master’s Message. He carried with him a letter of introduction from Swami Vivekananda to Mr. T. ARRIVAL OF SWAMI SHIVANANDA 133 Sokanathan of Colombo who had the unique privilege of hosting the great Swami when he had earlier visited the Island on his triumphal return to his Motherland from the West. The letter read as follows: ... ALMORA, 30th June, 1897. To, T. SOKANATHAN, Esqr, My dear friend, The bearer of this note, Swami Shivananda, is sent to Ceylon as promised by me during my sojourn. He is quite fit for the work entrusted to his care, of course with your kind help. I hope you will introduce him to other Ceylon Friends. Yours ever in the Lord Vivekananda

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