december 2010

Calender Events of December 2010

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� � � � � 01-12-10 Wednesday Ekadasi� 15-12-10 Wednesday Swami Premananda Jayanti� 17-12-10 Friday Vaikunta Ekadasi Gita

Parayanam 8.00 am� 24-12-10 Friday Christmas Eve� 27-12-10 Monday Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

Jayanti� 31-12-10 Friday Ekadasi & Swami Shivananda

Jayanti

Calender Events of January 2011

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� � � � � 01-01-11 Saturday Kalpataru Day� 10-01-11 Monday Swami Saradananda Jayanti� 12-01-11 Wednesday Indian National Youth Day

(Birthday of Swami Vivekananda)� 15-01-11 Saturday Makara Sankranti & Ekadasi� 18-01-11 Tuesday Swami Turiyananda Jayanti� 19-01-11 Wednesday Concluding Ceremony of

National Youth Week inNTR Grounds

� 26-01-11 Wednesday Swami Vivekananda Jayanti� 29-01-11 Saturday Ekadasi

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� Calendar Events and Contents 1

� Deepavali - Kalipuja Report 2

� Nov.28 Spiritual Retreat - Report 4

� Swami Premananda Jayanti 7

� Vaikunta Ekadasi 9

� Christmas Eve 10

� Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi Jayanti 12

� Swami Shivananda Jayanti 17

� New Arrivals 19

� VIHE Admission Program Details 20

� VIOL Spoken English and other 21 Languages Admission Details

� Chronos of RK Math Hyderabad 25

Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad

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Page 1 December 2010

Om Namo Bhagavathe Ramakrishnaya

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The proceedings of the spiritual retreat programme at Sri Ramakrishna Vanaprastha Ashramaon 28th November in which more than 600 devotees participated enthusiastically began withVedic Chantings & Bhajans by Revered Adhyaksha Maharaj. Revered Maharaj reminded thedevotees about the efficacy of Bhagawan Naama sankeertanam as the easiest path towardsYoga in this kaliyugam and asked everyone present to actively participate in the whole programmethus dwelling on the Lord and His glories.

Swami Shitikanthanandaji, who spoke next, ignited the hearts and minds of the audience byplacing their real nature before them in words of fire. Swamiji explained to them with his insightsand simple examples that by accepting God as the only Reality in this unreal and temporaryworld of ours and acting accordingly alone we can get peace.

Then Swami Anupamanandaji spoke on Sri Ramakrishna, the embodiment of love. He instilledfaith in the hearts of the seekers by stating emphatically that Sri Ramakrishna’s unconditionallove for His children, the whole of humanity, has been and will be protecting and inspiring man toreach perfection.

Swami Raghunayakanandaji then presented some teachings from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,showing us how Sri Sri Guru Maharaj very simply and beautifully answers all the doubts we in ourpresent times have regarding God, religion and our duties.

Speaking later, Swami Bodhamayanandaji stressed that the only purpose of living is to seekGod and see Him. He told them of the great sacrifice and pains underwent by all the great teachersof religions & the Holy Trinity in order to teach and train man about the purpose of taking a humanbirth and the way to fulfill that purpose which is realizing God.

Then, at the end, there were bhajans for one hour which were concluded with ‘RamakrishnaSaranam’ when many devotees danced for joy of keertana before Sri Ramakrishna Deva, SriSarada Mayi and Swami Vivekananda. The atmosphere there was filled with great spiritualvibrations and everyone’s hearts were uplifted.

There was Prasad-lunch distribution. Devotees purchased many books and strolled around thecalm and serene premises of the Vanaprastha Ashramam.

Buses back to Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad started at 3:30 pm.

Report by Br Prasad

Some pictures:

Cont........

Photos by Prem Kumar Singh

Swami PremanandaSwami PremanandaSwami PremanandaSwami PremanandaSwami Premananda(1861 - 1918)

BABURAM GHOSH (SWAMIPREMANANDA) was born in1861 in the village of Antpur, in theHoogli district of Bengal. Hisparents were pious, and the boyshowed a strong religiousvocation fromchildhood. Baburam’s sister wasmarried to Balaram Bose, awealthy man who became one ofRamakrishna’s most prominentdevotees during the last years ofhis life. When Babauram startedhis secondary education inCalcutta, the principal of hisschool was Mahendra NathGupta and one of the students inhis class was Rakhal (later SwamiBrahmananda). Rakhal tookBaburam to visit Dakshineswar inthe autumn of 1882.

During his first visit, Ramakrishnasubjected Baburam to certainphysical tests. Ramakrishna oftendid this, saying that anexamination of a man’s physicalcharacteristic reveal his spiritualcharacter - at least to the insightof an initiated person. Forexample, Ramakrishna would saythat eyes shaped like lotus petalsbetokened good thoughts; thateyes like those of bull betokened a predominance of lust; that the eyes of a yogi were reddishand had an upward cast. Those who are in a habit of looking out of the corners of their eyes fromtime to time, during a conversation are more intelligent than the common run. Again, a man ofdevotional nature has a soft body with flexible joints; even he is thin, his joints do not seemangular. Ramakrishna would weigh your forearm, asking you to hold it loose; if it was lighter thanordinary he would say that this showed a ‘benefit intelligence”.

He weighed Baburam’s forearm in this manner, and also gazed into his face and examined hislimbs. The verdict was evidently satisfactory, for Ramakrishna urged Baburam to visit him again.He particulary praised the young man’s purity, saying that, when he was in a high spiritual mood,Baburam was one of the only few he could bear to have touch him. Two years later, he askedBaburam to become his attendant, and he told M.: ‘When I ask Baburam,”Why don’t you comehere?” he answers, “Why don’t you make me come?”. Then he looks at Rakhal and weeps.“Rakhal is so happy here,” he says. Baburam’s hesitation to accept Ramakrishna’s invitationwas due to his fear of making his mother unhappy. But, soon after this, Baburam’s mother, whohad also become a devotee of Ramakrishna, came to Dakshineswar. Ramakrishna asked herto give her son the necessary permission and she did so gladly, only asking him in return that shemight become perfect in devotion to God and not live to witness the death of her children.

Baburam begged Ramakrishna to give him the lower form of samadhi, bhava samadhi or ecstasy.Ramakrishna appealed to divine Mother and was told that Baburam could not have ecstasy buthe would have non-dualistic knowledge of Brahman instead.

Baburam impressed all who met him by his sweetness. Ramakrishna would say of him that hehad the nature of a woman; adding that he was like a clean new pot in which milk could safely bekept without fear of its turning sour. Yet this self-effacing young man matured into a marvellousteacher and trainer of the young, during the period when, as Swami Premananda, he virtuallypresided over the Ramakrishna Math (monastery) at Belur, from 1902 to 1916, two years beforehis death. He looked after the young monks and novices in his charge devotedly. His love seemedinexhaustible; it forgave and often overcame even their worst failings. Nevertheless, he wouldsay to them, “Do I love you? No-for if I really did, I should have bound you to me forever. Oh, howdearly the Master loved us! We don’t have even a hundredth part of that love towards you”.

Teachings

• To follow the Master means to practice what he taught; otherwise nobody can advance byjust offering to him a few flowers or through some momentary sentimental outbursts.

• Can one become a great devotee of God simply by dancing and jumping or by quotingplentifully from the scriptures? What is wanted is freedom from selfishness - freedom fromegotism... Mere talk will not do, this is an age of action.

• Not mere theory; actualize it - there has been enough talk and writing. Put the books asideand let your actions speak. This is what the lives of the Master and Swamiji stand for.

• The poor, the weak, the fallen, the ignorant - all these you have to make your own. And yetI warn you, that in loving one section of society you must not become hateful of the other,the rich.

Vaikuta EkadasiVaikuta EkadasiVaikuta EkadasiVaikuta EkadasiVaikuta Ekadasi(1861 - 1918)

Ekadasi is a Sanskrit word,which means ‘the eleventh’. Itrefers to the eleventh day of afortnight belonging to a lunarmonth. There are two fortnightsin a lunar month—the brightand the dark. So, Ekadashioccurs twice in a month, in thebright fortnight and the darkfortnight. The special feature ofEkadashi, as most peopleknow it, is a fast, abstinencefrom diet. This is how it isusually understood. In India ithas become a routine to bemoderate, if not observe acomplete fast on this day. If oneobserves the Ekadashi fastregularly, Lord Hari ispropitiated, all sins are destroyed, the mind is purified devotion gradually develops love for Godbecomes intense.

Vaikuntha Ekadasi is an important festival dedicated to Lord Vishnu in the Tamil month of Margazhi(December-January). Vaikuntha Ekadesi festival is of great significance at the Tirupati BalajiTemple, Srirangam Sri Ranganatha Temple and at the Bhadrachalam Temple. In Kerala, it isknown as Swarga Vathil Ekadashi. The significance of Vaikuntha Ekadasi can be traced back tothe Padma Purana. The Purana indicates that Lord Vishnu took the form of ‘Ekadashi’ – femaleenergy – to kill demon Muran. This happened during the month of Margazhi. Impressed by‘Ekadashi,’ Lord Vishnu told her that whoever worships him on this day will reach ‘Vaikunta’(heaven). Like all Ekadasi days, devotees fast on this day and observe vigil the whole night.Some people indulge in meditation, Japa and singing of Hari Kirtan. Rice is avoided duringekadashi days as it is believed that the demon Mura finds a dwelling in the rice eaten on Ekadashiday. It is widely believed that the gates to the heaven open - the Gate of Vaikuntha - on theVaikuntha Ekadasi day. It is one of the most auspicious days in Lord Vishnu Temples in SouthIndia. The ‘Vaikuntha Dwaram’ or ‘the gate to the heaven’ is opened on this day. This is thepassage encircling the innermost sanctum of the Lord. Scores of devotees queue up to passthrough the Gate of Vaikuntha in the temples.

It is a great life that is the best commentary and revelation of another great life. It is the elephantthat understands the strength of the lion, not an ant or a rat. It is the lives of avatars like Ramakrishnaand his disciples that are the best commentaries to the lives of Christs and Buddhas. Religion isessentially life. It is this life that once sanctified Jerusalem which inspired Ramakrishna and hisdisciples and still continues to inspire millions of people in the world. As you might know, SriRamakrishna was interested in every religion and he followed their particular paths to discoverthe truth of them. And he found that all of them, like streams, mingled in the great ocean of love.

Shri Sambhuchandra Mallick used to read Bible to Master and then explain it in Bengali. In thisway Ramakrishna came to know something of Christianity. It was one day in the year 1874, hevisited the garden house of Jadunath Mallick which is situated to the south of the Kali temple atDakshineswar and he chanced to see a picture of the Madonna and Child. As he was looking atthe picture, it suddenly became living to him. His heart was filled with love for Christ. For a periodof three days and three nights he stayed in his room, filled with the presence of Jesus. He evenrefused to go to the Hindu temple or worship any of the Hindu gods or goddesses. Curious toknow how the followers of Christ worshipped their Lord, he was granted a vision of devoteeskneeling before Jesus and praying to him. On the third day, as he was seated outside his room,Ramakrishna noticed a luminous figure approaching him. At once he knew that this was Christthe Savior. The figure approached and embraced him and entered into his body. And soRamakrishna came to understand that Jesus was an avatar, a divine incarnation.

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About two of his monastic disciples, viz. Shashi Mj and Sharat Mj, Ramakrishna used to say thatboth of them were the followers of Jesus, the Christ in a former incarnation. Swami Saradanandaduring his visit to the Basilica of St.Peter in Vatican experienced Bhava Samadhi. SwamiRamakrishnanandaji during his stay in Madras used to visit the St.Thomas Church and spendhours in prayers kneeling down before the altar.

Christmas has some more relevance for the Ramakrishna Order. After Ramakrishna passedaway in 1886, his disciples took their final vows of sannyasa on Christmas Eve. 24th Decemberis a red-letter day in the history of Ramakrishna Order. The mother of Baburam Maharaj i.e.SwamPremanandaji, invited these disciples to her village house at Antpur, a few miles north-east ofKolkata. Narendranath, the leader, was of course there in the party which included Baburam Mj,Sharat Mj,Tarak Mj, Kali Mj, Niranjan Mj, Gangadhar Mj and Sarada Mj. In the calm and sereneatmosphere of the village, the spiritual fire that had been lighted in their hearts by the Masterblazed into a big fire. Naren’s body and mind were filled with the fire of sannyasa and the followingwords came out of his mouth: “Let man-making be the goal of our lives! Let us make this our onlyspiritual discipline! Away with vain learning! Let not the glamour of the world captivate our mindseven for a moment! Realization of God is the one and only thing in life! That is what SriRamakrishna’s life represented! We must realize God!” They kept vigil around dhuni fire andtalked about the life of Christ and the glories of renunciation. It was later discovered that it happenedto be the Christmas Eve – 24th December 1886. Thus it was on that day the monastic order ofRamakrishna came into existence formally at Antpur, a village in Bengal.

Sri Sarada DeviSri Sarada DeviSri Sarada DeviSri Sarada DeviSri Sarada Devi(1853 - 1920)

Endearingly known as ‘Holy Mother’, Sri Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna,was born on 22 December 1853 in a poor Brahmin family in Jayrambati, a village adjoiningKamarpukur in West Bengal. Her father, Ramachandra Mukhopadhyay, was a pious andkind-hearted person, and her mother, Shyama Sundari Devi, was a loving and hard-workingwoman.

Marriage

As a child Sarada was devoted to God, and spent most of hertime helping her mother in various household chores like caringfor younger children, looking after cattle and carrying food toher father and others engaged in work in the field. She hadno formal schooling, but managed to learn the Bengalialphabet. When she was about six years old, she was marriedto Sri Ramakrishna, according to the custom prevalent in Indiain those days. However, after the event, she continued to livewith her parents, while Sri Ramakrishna lived a God-intoxicated life at Dakshineshwar.

Visit to Dakshineshwar

At the age of eighteen she walked all the way to Dakshineshwar to meet her husband. SriRamakrishna, who had immersed himself in the intense practice of several spiritual disciplinesfor more than twelve years, had reached the highest state of realization in which he saw God in allbeings. He received Sarada Devi with great affection, and allowed her to stay with him. Hetaught her how to lead a spiritual life while discharging her household duties. They led absolutelypure lives, and Sarada Devi served Sri Ramakrishna as his devoted wife and disciple, whileremaining a virgin nun and following the spiritual path.

Ma Sarada Devi was the first disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. She mastered every religious secretas quickly. Impressed by her religious potential, he began to treat her as the Univeral MotherHerself and performed a puja considering her as veritable Tripura Sundari Devi. He said, ‘I lookupon you as my own mother and the Mother who is in the temple’.

Life at Dakshineshwar

Sri Ramakrishna looked upon Sarada Devi as a special manifestation of Divine Mother of theuniverse. In 1872, on the night of the Phalaharini Kalipuja, he ritualistically worshipped SaradaDevi as the Divine Mother, thereby awakening universal Motherhood latent in her. When disciplesbegan to gather around Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi learned to look upon them as her ownchildren. The room in which she stayed at Dakshineshwar was too small to live in and had hardlyany amenities; and on many days she did not get the opportunity of meeting Sri Ramakrishna. But she bore all difficulties silently and lived in contentment and peace, serving the increasingnumber of devotees who came to see Sri Ramakrishna.

Leading the Sangha after the Master’s Passing

After Sri Ramakrishna’s passing away in 1886, Sarada Devi spent some months in pilgrimage,and then went to Kamarpukur where she lived in great privation. Coming to know of this, thedisciples of Sri Ramakrishna brought her to Kolkata. This marked a turning point in her life. Shenow began to accept spiritual seekers as her disciples. Her great universal mother-heart,endowed with boundless love and compassion, embraced all people without any distinction,including many who had lived sinful lives.

When the Western women disciples of Swami Vivekananda came to Kolkata, the Holy Motheraccepted them with open arms as her daughters, ignoring the restrictions of the orthodox societyof those days. Although she had grown up in a conservative rural society without any access tomodern education, she held progressive views, and whole-heartedly supported SwamiVivekananda in his plans for rejuvenation of India and the uplift of the masses and women. Shewas closely associated with the school for girls started by Sister Nivedita.

She spent her life partly in Kolkata and partly in her native village Jayrambati. During the earlyyears of her stay in Kolkata, her needs were looked after by Swami Yogananda, a disciple ofSri Ramakrishna. In later years her needs were looked after by another disciple of SriRamakrishna, Swami Saradananda, who built a new house for her in Kolkata.

Simplicity and Forbearance

Although she was highly venerated for her spiritual status, and literally worshipped as the DivineMother, she continued to live like a simple village mother, washing clothes, sweeping the floor,bringing water from the pond, dressing vegetables, cooking and serving food. At Jayrambatishe lived with her brothers and their families. They gave her endless troubles but, established asshe was in the awareness of God and in Divine Motherhood, she always remained calm and self-possessed, showering love and blessings on all who came into contact with her. As Sister Niveditastated, “Her life was one long stillness of prayer.”

Mother of All

In the history of humanity there has never been another womanwho looked upon herself as the Mother of all beings, includinganimals and birds, and spent her whole life in serving them as herchildren, undergoing unending sacrifice and self-denial. About herrole in the mission of Sri Ramakrishna on earth, she stated: “Myson, you know the Master had a maternal attitude (matri-bhava)towards every one. He has left me behind to manifest that DivineMotherhood in the world.”

Ideal Woman

On account of her immaculate purity, extraordinary forbearance,selfless service, unconditional love, wisdom and spiritualillumination, Swami Vivekananda regarded Sri Sarada Devi asthe ideal for women in the modern age. He believed that with theadvent of Holy Mother, the spiritual awakening of women in modern times had begun.

Last Days

Under the strain of constant physical work and self-denial andrepeated attacks of malaria, her health deteriorated in theclosing years of her life, and she left the mortal body on 21 Jul1920

Teachings

• If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others.Rather see your own faults.

• Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is astranger, my child; the whole world is your own.

• When one realizes God, He grants knowledge andillumination from within; one knows it oneself.

• In the fullness of one’s spiritual realization one will findthat He who resides in one’s heart, resides in the heartsof others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.

• Continue to pray without losing heart. Everything will happen in time. If one surrendershimself totally at his feet, the Master will see that everything is set right.

• One’s love of God depends entirely upon one’s inner feelings. Love of God is the essentialthing.

• “Everything depends on the mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It issaid, “The aspirant may have received the grace of the Guru, the Lord and Vaishnavas;but he comes to grief without the grace of ‘one’. That “one” is the mind. The mind of theaspirant should be gracious to him.

• God is one’s very own. It is the eternal relationship. One realizes him in proportion to theintensity of one’s feeling for him. It is the nature of water to flow downwards, but the sun’srays lifts it up towards the sky. Likewise it is the very nature of the mind to go to lowerthings, to objects of enjoyment; but the grace of God can make the mind go towardshigher objects.

• Sri Ramakrishna left me behind to manifest the Motherhood of God to the world. I shan’tbe able to turn away anybody if he addresses me as Mother. I can’t contain myself whenone draws near me and calls me Mother. If my son wallows in the dust or mud, it is I whohas to wipe all the dirt off his body and take him to my lap.

• The aim of life is to realize God and remain immersed in contemplation of Him. Manythink of God only after receiving blows from the world. But blessed indeed is he who canoffer his mind, like a fresh flower, at the feet of the Lord from his very childhood. Oneshould practice renunciation in youth. Through japa and austerity the bondage of karma iscut asunder, but God cannot be realized except through love and devotion.

• One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak even an unpleasant truthunnecessarily. By indulging in rude words one’s nature becomes rude. One’s sensibility islost if one has no control over one’s speech.

• My son, if a thorn pricks your foot, it hurts me like a spear entering my heart. I am themother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Whenever you are in distress, justsay to yourself, ‘I have a mother.’

• “Try to remember the Master always and perform japa whenever you can; at least you cansalute him mentally, can’t you?”

• “The mind will be steadied if one repeats the Name of God fifteen or twenty thousandtimes a day. It is truly so.” How can the mind be kept well without work? Is it possible tomeditate for all twenty-four hours of the day? So one has to take up some work. Thatkeeps the mind in good shape.

• One should always be active. One should never be without work. For when one is idle, allsorts of bad thoughts crop up in one’s mind.

• “The result of karma, is inevitable. But by repeating the Name of God, one can lessen itsintensity. If one were destined to have a wound as wide as a ploughshare, one will getpinprick at least. The effect of karma, can be counteracted to a great extent by japa andausterities.” “If one does good action, that will counteract the past evil action. Past sin canbe counteracted by meditation, japa, and spiritual thought.”

Swami ShivanandaSwami ShivanandaSwami ShivanandaSwami ShivanandaSwami Shivananda(1854 - 1934)

Life

Swami Shivananda, thesecond president of theRamakrishna Order, waspopularly known as‘Mahapurush Maharaj’. Bornprobably in 1854 at Barasatof West Bengal, in arespectable and deeplyreligious family, Tarak — thatwas his original name — gota good education, bothsecular and spiritual. Whenhe was working in Calcutta inan English Firm, he got anopportunity of seing SriRamakrishna about whom hehad already heard. Later,when he met SriRamakrishna atDakshineswar, the latter waspleasantly surprised to learnthat he was the son ofRamkanai Ghosal, his oldfriend. Needles to say, Tarakhad full approval of his fatherfor becoming a disciple of SriRamakrishna.

Tarak was the first person tojoin the monastery atBaranagore after the demiseof the Master, and waschristened ‘SwamiShivananda’ while receivingthe monastic orders. ThoughTarak had been married, he had successfully kept up the vow of brahmacharya (celibacy). Thismade Swami Vivekananda remark in later days that he was a ‘Mahapurush.’ This name stuckand he became known as ‘Mahapurush Maharaj.’ Like his brother-disciples, he also spent a fewyears as an itinerant monk. But he had to settle down at the monastery in 1897 after the triumphantreturn of Swami Vivekananda from the West. For some time he was in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) also,preaching Vedanta at the behest of Swami Vivekananda. He also took a leading part in the firstplague relief work of the Ramakrishna Mission in 1899. It was he who started the Ashrama atVaranasi.

The most memorable part of his life was during his stewardship of the Ramakrishna Organizationsas the president from 1922 to 1934, when he blessed a large number of people with initiationand brought spiritual solace and comfort to thousands of devotees. Like Swami Brahmananda,he stressed meditation along with work. He gave great importance to prayer as a form of Sadhana.He was full of love and compassion, and sincere seekers flocked to him.

He was one of the finest examples of the fact that the beauty and sublimity of the inner life of aholy man can never be described in words but can only be tangibly felt. In April 1933 he suffereda stroke and developed paralysis of one side. On 20 February 1934, a few days after SriRamakrishna’s birthday, Mahapurush Maharaj left the body for the heavenly abode. His memoryis kept alive at Belur Math in the small room adjacent to the Old Shrine.

Teachings

• Low thoughts will come and go. Don’t mind them. Through His grace, as a result of constantpractice you will get strength. Devote your whole mind to japa, meditation, worship andthe study of the scriptures, whichever appeals to you for the time being.

• Mere mechanical japa does not help much. You must have love for the Lord. But then,even mechanical japa has some results; after all it is Lord’s name that is being repeated.

• Pray to the Lord for strength, knowledge and dispassion. Pray to Him with all your heartfor His grace and for devotion and faith. It is not possible for everyone to practice hardausterities, but then, through prayer everything is possible.

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2. The duration for the whole course the above languages is of 4 sessions: 1st Junior,2nd Junior, 1st Senior, 2nd Senior. German & Sanskrit courses have an additionalDiploma of two (2) levels.

3. Each session is of three months duration (approximately 36 classes). Classes are heldthrice a week on alternate days as follows:MWF - Mon, Wed, Fri or TTS - Tues, Thurs, Sat.

4. Each class is of about two hours duration: Students enter the Institute 15 minutesbefore the commencement of classes.

5. German and French language students may opt for classes either TTS or MWFbatches; mornings 7.30 - 9.30 a.m. or evenings 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.

6. Apart from the application fee (Rs.100), applicants will pay the following amount atthe time of admission (inclusive of tuition fee, examination fee and textbooks suppliedby the Institute):

Language Fees Batches availableGerman Rs.650 MWF: 7.30 - 9.30 a.m. MWF: 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.

TTS : 7.30 - 9.30 a.m. TTS : 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.French Rs.650 MWF: 7.30 - 9.30 a.m. MWF: 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.TTS : 7.30 - 9.30 a.m. TTS : 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.Japanese Rs.650 : 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.Spanish Rs.650 : 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.Sanskrit Rs.450 MWF: 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.Hindi Rs.450 : 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.

Admission Schedule and Instructions• Candidates must come in person with the following items on the day of admission

(11th December 2010 at 2.00 p.m.):i) The admission coupon, bearing the institute seal on the photo.ii) One passport-size photo for the Identity card.iii) Rs.650 for tuition fee (cash only) and textbooks etc. for Sanskrit and Hindi Rs.450

(non-refundable and non-transferable)

Important Note:• Please take an application form ONLY if you can come to classes on time i.e. 7.15

a.m. for morning classes or 5.15 p.m. for evening classes.• Only four leaves (4) are permitted in the entire session of 3 months (approximately 36

classes). If a student exceeds this limit his / her admission shall be cancelled automati-cally without any prior notice.

• Classes start with a 10 minutes prayer. Attending the prayer is compulsory.• Latecomers are not permitted to attend classes.• Students are required to dress in a decent manner befitting the sanctifying atmosphere

of the Institute and the Math. Gaudy dresses, T-Shirts /Shirts/Pants with writings onthem are NOT permitted.

• Jeans / T-Shirts / Tops/ sleeveless dresses / leggings etc. for girls are strictly NOTpermitted.

• Kindly fill up the application form immediately and submit the same at the counter andobtain acknowledgement (admission coupon).

• Candidates are not permitted to join more than one language in a session.First Class:- On the first day (MWF-batch on 03rd and TTS-batch on 04th of January2011), you must come half an hour before scheduled time so that you can see yoursection and room number which will be displayed on the notice board and follow.Students must read prospectus for further course details, syllabus and rules and regula-tions which will be available with admission coupon.

17 November 2010 Director

* Universal Temple of Sri Ramakrishna : (open to all, except for children below sevenyears) 5.00 a.m to 12 noon & 4 p.m to8.15 p.m; 5 a.m - Mangal Arati 9.30 a.m -Puja , 6.45 p.m Arati and bhajans (Afterevening Arati, there will be RamanamamSankirtana on Ekadasi days, and SpecialBhajans Programme on Saturday, Sundayand other festival days.)

* Basement Hall of the temple : Telugu weekly discourse & MeditationSaturday (5.45 p.m to 6.45 p.m)

* Vivekananda Auditorium : English weekly discourse Sunday (5.45 p.mto 6.45 p.m)

* Office : 8.30 a.m to 12 noon & 4 p.m to 8 p.m on alldays

* Book Stall : 9.00 a.m to 1.00 p.m & 4.00 p.m to 8.00p.m(Book Stall adjacent to Gita DarshanBuilding is open on all days from 9.00 a.m to8.00p.m)

december 2010

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