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Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama, Varanasi
Luxa, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 010
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Situated in the holiest of the holy cities of Lord Vishwanath Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama, Varanasi is one of the oldest branch centres of the world wide organization the Ramakrishna Math, Belur, Howrah.

The Ashrama was started by Swami Shivananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna at the bidding of Swami Vivekananda on the 4th of July, 1902, with the sole purpose of spreading the message of Advaita Vedanta, as preached and demonstrated by SRi Ramakrishna,  Sri Maa Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.

Atmano Moksharthang Jagaddhitaya Cha

Visit of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ma Sarada and Swami Vivekananda in Varanasi

Swami Vivekananda

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Sri Ramakrishna

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Sri Maa Sarada Devi

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The Shrine

The beautiful temple of SRi Ramakrishna made of Chunner stone conforms to achitectural style with ornamentally sesigned stone pieces as in old temples as kashi. It is a two storied structure, with one at the underground and connected by stairs to the floor above housing the sanctum sanctoram with the holy marble Idol of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna upon the marble alter with photograph-Image of the Holy Mother and Swami Vivekananda, Palced along Side which are daily worshipped. A portion of the Holy Relics of the Holy Mother, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Shivananda have been kept preserved here seperately.


The temple has five domes. On the front wall are carved images of Lord Vishwanath and Goddess Annapurna. On the front side of the dome is the image of Lord Sri Ramakrishna in a fixed posture and on the other side is the image of Holy Mother Sarada Devi and on the other side is the image of Swami Vivekananda and some of the holy companions of Sri Ramakrishna is engraved. Apart from the idols of Sri Rama, Sita, Lakshmana and Mother Ganga, the two pencils in the temple have the images of ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu and ten forms of Goddess Shakti.

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The Mahavir Temple

The temple is located in the ground floor room at the north end of the main building of the ashram. Apart from the daily pujas, special pujas are held on Maghi Purnima and Ramnam sankirtan is sung on every full moon day.

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Durga Puja

Durgotsava in the city of Lord Vishwanath has a special significance both religiously and socially. After Belur Math, the headquarters of Ramakrishna order, if the Durga Puja of any branch is regarded as the most ancient and traditional, it is that of Kashi Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama. In the year 1908 on the special request of Pulin Babu (a devotee), Swami Brahmananda ji arranged for the first Durga Puja to be performed in image (pratima) here. After this, in the year 1913 on the special prayer of Nistarini Devi, the wife of Sri Navgopal Ghosh (a devotee of Sri Sri Thakur), Raja Maharaj himself made special arrangements for Durga Puja to be performed in Pratima itself and was physically present during the entire celebration. Since then, every year Durga Puja is being held perpetually at the historical Durga Mandap located in the Ashrama in a grand refulgent idol conventionally made on a single base (Ek Chala).

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Discourses

Discourses on various religious scriptures, Upanishads and SriRamakrishna-SriMaa-Vivekananda-Literatures are held daily in the afternoon by senior monks of the Ashrama.

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Rituals

Daily rituals are carried on with Mangalaratrikam at the pre-dawn hours followed by daily worship of the deities with Bhogaraga, evening prayers with Aratrikam and light oblations for the night. Special Puja wiht Homa asr also arganized on the day of birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, The Holy Mother amd Swami Vivekanandaalong with reading frim holy Scriptures and illuminating talks on Sri Ramakrishna, the Holy Mother Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.
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Relief

Sri Ramakrishna used to say, ‘Man is Narayana Himself. If God can manifest Himself through an image, then why not through man also?’ He declared very categorically that God-realization is the aim of human life. Ramakrishna order performs relief service keeping in view the ideal of "Shiv Gyane Jiva Seva ".

Library

As gateways to knowledge and culture, libraries play a fundamental role in society. Library of Kashi Advaita Ashrama begin with a collection initially confined to a few books and journals, stacked in one or two book-cases in a room adjacent to Durga Mandap. With the passage of time it grew up with vast collections of books on Sanatan shastras and a rare manuscript collection which contains many ancient texts. Our library has a huge collection of rare books which are mostly out of print. At present there are 24427 number of books and 7 journals/periodicals in Sanskrit, Hindi, English and Bengali languages.

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Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama
​D 45/6, ​Luxa, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221010, India

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