Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Chapra
Swami Vivekananda
The centre was started in April 2003 in the district in which Swami Adbhutananda (a monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna) was born.
Activities:
- A public library with 8025 books and 47 periodicals and newspapers.
- A charitable dispensary with allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedic sections, which treated 58,731 cases, all free of cost. Its mobile unit treated 6470 patients and conducted 2 eye camps and arranged cataract surgery on 1200 patients.
- Two non-formal education centres with 1155 poor students, a coaching centre with 360 students and two free computer training centres with 80 students (20 boys & 60 girls).
- Welfare work by way of providing pecuniary help, clothes, blankets, etc to the poor and needy, and milk and snacks to poor children.
- Religious activities: Religious discourses, spiritual retreats, and celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other saints and prophets, and also festivals like Ramnavami, Janmashtami, Buddha Jayanti, Christmas Eve, etc.
Temple Shrine
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Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was an Indian saint, social reformer, and a great teacher of mankind. He was the foremost disciple of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Dev who is considered as the prophet of modern age. Swami Vivekananda was a towering spiritual personality, great thinker, orator and the prophet of universal harmony and progress.
