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We are pleased to announce that spiritual retreat on *Many Pathways to Truth* as per the flyer is in progress from *10.30 am to 2 pm* today (Saturday, 17th August) at Cramond Kirk Hall, Edinburgh

Revered Swami Suhitanandaji Maharaj, Vice President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission will preside over the session and Swami Sarvasthananda will address the gathering.

For those who wish to join online on Zoom or YouTube live may use the following links to join:

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Rev. Vice President maharaj Swami Suhitananda ji, has arrived in Edinburgh this evening to bless us all. Hope you are able to make it to the retreat today morning to seek his blessings and take advantage of his much awaited presence. Jai Ramakrishna Jai Maa!🙏🙏🙏

Jai Jagannath. Shubho Rath Yatra to all.

Today is the auspicious Phalaharini Kali puja day, which is observed on a new moon day and has gained popularity because it was on this day that Sri Ramakrishna offered all the merits of his spiritual practice at the feet of his consort, Sri Sarada Devi. The word phalaharini means ‘the mother deity, who takes away the fruits of our actions’. Phala means fruit, the fruits of actions. Whenever we do something, it creates fruits in the form of tendencies in the mind and those fruits leads us to do other actions. Suppose one listens to something good, it leaves a good tendency in the mind and it makes one listen to more good things. This cycle makes you come back over and again to this world, because one has to exhaust one’s mental tendencies. Phalaharini removes all these tendencies by taking away the fruits of one’s actions. Harini means a female deity who takes away. One continues to get the results of one’s actions because of the thought: ‘I am the doer and I am the enjoyer’. The goal of spiritual life is to remove this thought. This process is hastened by Phalaharini Kali.

Today is the auspicious day of Rama Navami. It was probably about the year 1864 that one great Vaishnava devotee (Babaji), Jatadhari by name, came to Dakshineshwar. He was a wandering monk and a devotee of Sri Rama. Ramlala or the “Child Rama” was his favourite Deity. By long meditation and worship, Jatadhari had been blessed with a wonderful vision of the effulgent form of Ramlala, which then became a living presence to him. Jatadhari was engaged day and night in the service of the image and was in a state of constant bliss. Sri Ramakrishna could see the actions of Ramlala and used to spend the whole day with the Babaji to watch him. Over time Ramlala became more and more intimate with Sri Ramakrishna and followed him to his room. Sri Ramakrishna later remarked, “I saw Ramlala as vividly as I see you all—now dancing gracefully before me, now springing on my back, or insisting on being taken up in my arms. Sometimes I would hold him on my lap. He would not remain there but would run to the fields in the sun, pluck flowers from thorny bushes, or jump into the Ganga. All these things actually happened.”
One day Jatadhari came to Sri Ramakrishna and said, “Ramlala out of his infinite grace has revealed himself to me in the form I prefer, but he has told me that he will not go leaving you behind. I shall gladly leave him with you and go my way. It gladdens my heart to think that he is happy in your company.” With these words, Jatadhari left Ramlala with Sri Ramakrishna and bade adieu to Dakshineshwar.

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It is with deep sorrow we inform you that the sixteenth Sanghguru of Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Param Pujyapada Shrimat Swami Smarnananda ji Maharaj started his journey for SriRamaKrishnalok at 8.14 pm today. Our joint prayers to the Holy trinity to give all the devotees and disciples of revered Maharaj ji, the strength to endure this mourning. Jai Maa,Jai Thakur!

Hari Om Ramakrishna!

On Sri Sri Thakur’s 189th Tithi Puja.

Few glimpses of the wonderful and an insightful talk session held at Cramond Kirk today with Swami Sarvasthananda Ji maharaj.

Today is the auspicious Janmatithi of Swami Brahmanandaji Maharaj. His pre-monastic name was Rakhal Chandra Ghosh and he was born on 21 January 1863 (English Calendar). His birth-place is Sikra Kulingram, 36 miles to the N.W. of Kolkata.
Rakhal was devoted to God and used to practise meditation even in boyhood. At the age of 12 he was brought to Kolkata for his studies. There he met Narendra (later known as Swami Vivekananda) and, under his influence, joined the Brahmo Samaj. According to the custom prevalent in those days, he was married at the age of 18 to Vishweshwari. Soon after marriage Vishweshwari’s brother Manomohan Mitra, who was a close devotee of Sri Ramakrishna, took Rakhal to the Master. Prior to that Sri Ramakrishna had had a vision in which he saw the Divine Mother showing him a child who would be his son. As soon as Rakhal came to Dakshineswar, Sri Ramakrishna recognized him to be that child, and treated him like a son.
After a few visits Rakhal came to Dakshineswar to live permanently with Sri Ramakrishna. Under the Master’s guidance, he practised intense spiritual disciplines, and attained high levels of spiritual illumination. After the Master’s mahasamadhi in 1886 when the new Monastic brotherhood was formed at Baranagar, Rakhal joined it. He underwent sannyasa ordination and assumed the name Brahmananda.
Two years later he left Baranagar Math and lived an intensely contemplative life at Varanasi, Omkarnath, Vrindaban, Hardwar and other places. During this period he scaled the highest peak of non-dualistic experience and used to remain absorbed in Samadhi for days together. In 1890 he returned to the Math. When Swami Vivekananda, after his return to India in 1897, wanted to give a new turn to monastic life, Swami Brahmananda whole-heartedly supported him. There was deep love between these two monastic brothers. After establishing Belur Math monastery when Swami Vivekananda got Ramakrishna Math registered as a Trust, Swami Brahmananda became its President. He held this post till the end of his life.
During his tenure as President, the Ramakrishna Order underwent great expansion, and several new branch centres were opened in India and abroad. The Ramakrishna Mission, which had been founded by Swami Vivekananda as an Association, was revived and registered during his time. His stress on contemplative life served to counterbalance the activities undertaken by the monks. During those difficult formative years he gave great stability to the Sangha. For his kingly qualities of administration, Swami Vivekananda gave him the appellation ‘Raja’, and since then he was respectfully referred to as ‘Raja Maharaj’ by all. He was one of the six disciples of Sri Ramakrishna whom the Master regarded as ishvarakotis.
He gave up his body, after a brief illness, on 10 April 1922. At the place where his body was cremated in Belur Math, a temple now stands in his memory.

May the goddess of fortune and prosperity, Lakshmi, bestow happiness upon you and your loved ones on this occasion. Wishing you a joyful Kojagiri Lakshmi Puja! Hope you receive the blessings of Maa Lakshmi, safeguarding your wealth and opening doors to new avenues of prosperity in your life.

Today is Phalaharini Kali puja day. It is observed on a new moon day and has gained popularity because it was on this day that Sri Ramakrishna offered all the merits of his spiritual practice at the feet of his consort, Sri Sarada Devi. The word phalaharini means ‘the (goddess) Shakti, who takes away the fruits of our actions’. Phala means fruit, the fruits of actions. Whenever we do something, it creates a fruit in the form of ten-dencies in the mind and that fruit leads us to do another action. This cycle continues and makes us come back over and again to this world, because one has to exhaust one’s mental tendencies. Phalaharini removes all these ten-dencies by taking away the fruits of one’s actions. Harini means a goddess (power) who takes away. One continues to get the results of one’s actions because of the thought: ‘I am the doer and I am the enjoyer’. The goal of spiritual life is to remove this thought. This process is hastened by Phalaharini Kali.
If I do a good action it leaves a good impression on my mind, which is called samskara—it is also called karma or karma-phala—and that would make me do another good action and this goes on and on till I understand that I am not the doer. Till I have the sense of doer-ship this samskara or karma-phala is generated. Kali is called—particularly in the context of Phala-harini Kali puja—phalaharini, because she has the power to destroy all the karmas or samskaras of our lives. She has the power to give you and I liberation from the cycle of repeated births and deaths, repeated coming and going. So it is quite significant that Sri Ramakrishna surrendered all the fruits of his spiritual austerities on the Phalaharini Kali puja day, at the feet of his wife whom he looked upon as the manifestation of Mother Kali.
Kali.
Phalaharini Kali takes away all our karma, but we have to be alert and vigilant not to increase her work. We have to be conscious of not adding to the good and bad tendencies that we carry. It is easy to give up the evil but it is very difficult to give up the good. Sri Ramakrishna did that: he gave up all that was good and all that was bad with him. He just kept the Truth with him. He held on to the substratum and gave up all that is projected on it. So, as worshippers of Phalaharini Kali, we need to give up the good and bad results of our actions.