“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive”, said Swami Vivekananda (saint and philosopher from India – 1863 to 1902). An interesting incident happened in the life of Swami Vivekananda. As a young man, he was interested…
A glorious bequeathment to humanity - 125 years of the Ramakrishna Organisation
By Swami Atmeshananda
The Vedanta Centre in Springfield Lakes, Qld celebrates 125 glorious years of the establishment of its parent organisation – the Ramakrishna Mission (https://belurmath.org/). Established in India on 1st May 1897 by the illustrious Swami Vivekananda, the organisation has been a…
“God is everywhere but he is most manifest in Man. So serve Man as God. That is as good as worshipping God”- said Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th century saint from India (1836 to 1886). By the term ‘man’ he meant all humans – not just man and woman. After going through 12 long years of…
