Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama is a branch of

Ramakrishna Math Ramakrishna Math is the administrative legal organization of the Ramakrishna Order, considered part of the Hindu reform movements. It was set up by sanyasin disciples of Ramakrishna Paramhansa headed by Swami Vivekananda at Baranagar Math in Bar ...

and

Ramakrishna Mission Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the ''Ramakrishna Movement'' or the ''Vedanta Movement''. The mission is named after and inspired by th ...

involved in providing humanitarian, healthcare, education and relief services to poor and needy through the universal principle of serving "God in man", based on the motto, ''Atmano Moksartham Jagat Hitaya Cha'', which was propounded by

Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda (; ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the intro ...

List of Sevashramas

The oldest Sevashramas were Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service, in Varanasi, established by Kedarnath Moullik ( Swami Achalananda) and Charu Chandra Das (

Swami Subhananda Swami ( ; sometimes abbreviated sw.) in Hinduism is an honorific title given to a male or female ascetic who has chosen the path of renunciation (''sanyāsa''), or has been initiated into a religious monastic order of Vaishnavas. It is used eit ...

), the two monastic disciples of

in 1900, Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal, established by Swami Kalyanananda and

Swami Nischayananda Nischayananda (11 May 1865 – 22 October 1934) was an Indian monk who worked to help the poor and needy. He was a direct monastic disciple of Vivekananda. He, together with Kalyanananda was responsible for setting up and running the Ramakri ...

, the two monastic disciples of Swami Vivekananda in 1901, Ramakrishna Mission Sevashram in Vrindavan, established under Babu Jajneswar Chunder with his own son and Bramachari Harendra Nath of Belur Math in 1907, Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Allahabad, established by Swami Vijnanananda in 1910. Subsequently, other centers were established in different places which include - Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Silchar in Assam, *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Muzaffarpur, Bihar, *Ramakrishna Mission T.B Sanatorium Ranchi, *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Calicut, *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Lukhnow, *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Bankura, *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Contai, *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Garbeta, *Ramakrishna Mission Sarada Sevashrama Jayrambati, * Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan in Kolkata, and *Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Tamluk. Centers in Bangladesh include Dhaka (founded in 1899), Barisal (1904), Narayanganj (1909), Baliati at Manikganj (1910), Sylhet (1916), Chittagong (1921), Faridpur (1921), Habiganj (1921), Mymensingh (1922), Dinajpur (1923), Bagerhat (1926), and Comilla (1936).

Work undertaken

The primary work undertaken by all Sevashramas is in the area of providing basic and advanced healthcare facilities to poor and needy at affordable costs, through the hospitals under their wings. All sevashramas work as their key principle service to the mankind irrespective of religion, caste and creed, in line with the philosophy of Vedanta of looking upon every human being as the manifestation of the divine as propounded by

Sri Ramakrishna Ramakrishna Paramahansa ( bn, রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; , 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886),——— — also spelled Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya,, was an In ...

and Swami Vivekananda.Activities of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama
/ref> In addition some Sevashramas also offer educational, humanitarian (like relief and rehabilitation) and spiritual services.

References

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