Revered President Maharaj is at Belur Math.
Swami Vagishananda ji is at Cossipore Math.
Swami Gautamananda ji continues to be in Jayrambati.
Swami Prabhananda ji is at Belur Math.
Swami Shivamayananda ji is at Kankurgachhi Math.
Swami Suhitananda ji is at Belur Math.
All of them are in good health. They have no tour programme scheduled for September.
Following the taking over of Sri Ramakrishna Vivekananda Educational Trust, Thanjavur, by the Ramakrishna Math, a sub-centre of Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, has been started there.
Ramakrishna Math,
No. 3/254, Salaikkara Street,
Bhaskar Nellu Mandi Upstairs,
Mariyamman Koil & Post,
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613 501
The new sub-centre has a campus in Thanjavur city as well at the following address:
4A, Shivaji Nagar,
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613 007.
Phone number: 98414 20588
Email id: thanjavur@rkmm.org
Website: rkmthanjavur.org
Postal Address: The road on which our Shillong centre stands was renamed ‘Sebastian Bia Road’ some time back. So, the postal address of the centre is
Sebastian Bia Road, Laitumkhrah,
Shillong, Meghalaya 793 003.
Phone/Fax Numbers: Aurangabad centre has discontinued its telephone connections: 237 7099 and 645 2114 and the fax connection: 237 6293.
Coimbatore Math has discontinued its telephone connection: 244 2990. It has a new mobile telephone connection: 94442 56532.
The telephone number of Kozhikode centre has been changed from 232 0191 to 296 0191. The centre has a new mobile telephone connection: 89506 15001.
Ranchi Sanatorium has discontinued its telephone connections: 229 0135 & 229 1023 and the telefax connection: 229 0149. It has the following new mobile telephone connections: 94311 70005 and 79797 55442.
Website: Kasundia centre has launched a website with address: rkmkasundia.org and Kozhikode centre with address: rkmkozhikode.org
Amarkanan Sri Ramakrishna Sevadal Ashrama in Bankura district has been taken over by the Ramakrishna Mission, and a sub-centre of Ramharipur Ashrama has been started there. The address of the sub-centre is :
P.O. Amarkanan, Dist. Bankura,
West Bengal 722 133
The Residential College of Narendrapur Ashrama held the inaugural function of its diamond jubilee on 3 August. Revered President Maharaj, the General Secretary, former Secretaries and Principals, teachers and others spoke on the occasion through videoconferencing.
The Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Karimganj, presented Chief Minister’s Best Community Action Award for Development to Karimganj centre on 15 August, Independence Day.
A class-12 student of Deoghar Vidyapith secured the first position in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (Engineering) held this year. Ms Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, and Ms Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Woman and Child Development, Govt of India, sent congratulatory messages to the boy.
In a speech competition conducted by a Chennai-based organization in August, a class-10 student of Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya school (Burkit Road) secured the first position at the zonal level and the third position at the state level.
The following centres conducted eye camps:
| Sl. No. | Centre | Dates of camps | Patients
checked/treated |
Specs given | Surgeries | |
| no. | performed at | |||||
| 1 | Khetri | 28 June | 60 | 33 | ‒ | ‒ |
| 2 | Manasadwip | 22 & 23 August | 115 | 13 | ‒ | ‒ |
| 3 | Mumbai | November to March | 844 | 487 | 109 | Our hospital in Mumbai |
| 4 | Rajkot | June to August | 290 | ‒ | 190 | Our eye care centre in Rajkot |
Delhi centre conducted 12 online workshops on values education in August. In all, 610 teachers from different parts of India attended these workshops.
Rajkot centre held a webinar on 23 August on the subject “Swami Vivekananda’s message for the modern youth” which was watched online by 1600 people.
The results obtained by the students of our schools at the Secondary (Class 10) and Higher Secondary (Class 12) Examinations, 2020, conducted by different education boards are given below. (In all these figures, Star Marks means 75% or more marks, 1st Div. 60% or more marks, 2nd Div. 45% or more but less than 60% marks, and 3rd Div. less than 45% marks.)
| Exam | Students
appeared |
1st Div. | 2nd Div. | 3rd Div. | Failed | Star Marks |
| Chengalpattu Matriculation Higher Secondary School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 101 | 50 | 31 | 20 | – | 18 |
| Class 12 | 123 | 71 | 48 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| Chengalpattu Boys’ Higher Secondary School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 170 | 32 | 74 | 64 | – | 9 |
| Class 12 | 176 | 34 | 85 | 37 | 20 | 5 |
| Chengalpattu Girls’ Higher Secondary School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 170 | 56 | 86 | 28 | – | 26 |
| Class 12 | 201 | 94 | 95 | 8 | 4 | 32 |
| Chennai Mission Ashrama Matriculation Higher Secondary School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 144 | 51 | 51 | 42 | – | 7 |
| Chennai Mission Ashrama Higher Secondary School (South) | ||||||
| Class 10 | 71 | 37 | 32 | 2 | – | 10 |
| Chennai Mission Ashrama Higher Secondary School (Main) | ||||||
| Class 10 | 144 | 61 | 62 | 21 | – | 17 |
| Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madley Street | ||||||
| Class 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya Model Higher Secondary School, Burkit Road | ||||||
| Class 10 | 124 | 15 | 91 | 18 | – | 3 |
| Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Usman Road | ||||||
| Class 10 | 194 | 90 | 93 | 11 | – | 15 |
| Chennai Students’ Home Residential High School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 41 | 23 | 17 | 1 | – | 7 |
| Coimbatore Mission Shivananda Higher Secondary School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 171 | 100 | 69 | 2 | – | 39 |
| Coimbatore Mission Vidyalaya High School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 44 | 42 | 2 | – | – | 23 |
| Malliankaranai High School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 42 | 19 | 16 | 7 | – | 8 |
| Nattarampalli Matriculation High School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 30 | 26 | 4 | – | – | 6 |
| Villupuram Matriculation Higher Secondary School | ||||||
| Class 10 | 248 | 193 | 55 | – | – | 49 |
| Villupuram Matriculation School, Salamedu | ||||||
| Class 10 | 49 | 34 | 10 | 5 | – | 16 |
| Exam | Students
appeared |
1st Div. | 2nd Div. | 3rd Div. | Compartmental /
Supplementary |
Failed | Star Marks |
| Mysuru Vidyashala | |||||||
| Class 10 | 101 | 101 | – | – | – | – | 100 |
| Vidyashala students secured the following positions in the state: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th. | |||||||
We record with sorrow the passing away of two of our brother-monks.
Swami Ameyatmananda (Surendra), head of Dinajpur centre, Bangladesh, passed away at Arogya Bhavan, Belur Math, on 14 August at 9.30 am due to a massive heart attack. He was 66. He had come to Kolkata in February 2020 for the treatment of his kidney problem and was admitted to Seva Pratishthan for some days. After getting discharged from there, he was recuperating at Arogya Bhavan. Initiated by Swami Vireshwaranandaji Maharaj, he joined the order in 1983 at Medinipur centre and received sannyasa diksha from Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj in 1993. He served at Medinipur centre as an assistant in different departments, at Rahara centre mainly as the headmaster of its high school, and Dinajpur Ashrama as the head of centre. He was unassuming and amiable by nature.
Swami Vibhananda (Ramakrishna of Narainpur centre) expired on 26 August at 12.40 pm, owing to a massive heart attack. He was 67 and had been suffering from diabetes, hypertension and ischemic heart disease for some years. On the fateful day he was going from Narainpur to Raipur by the Ashrama vehicle for his medical check-up and treatment. But he passed away on the way. An initiated disciple of Swami Vireshwaranandaji Maharaj, he joined the order in 1972 at Manasadwip centre and received sannyasa diksha from his Guru in 1984. He served at Manasadwip, Taki, Puri Math, Khetri, Cossipore, Agartala, Chandipur and Narainpur centres. Jovial and sociable by nature, he had a great concern for the welfare of underprivileged people.