PRELUDE
Being pained at the wretched condition of the then India, Swami Vivekananda, the patriotic monk wanted its upliftment in all human aspects. Inspired by his guru, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission for the good of  India and the world at large. It was  the desire of Swamiji to open centres at Jaipur, Ajmer and Alwar in Rajasthan. His ideas of development and progress through selfless service penetrated through different parts of Rajasthan also. Motivated by his teachings, several devotees of Sri Ramakrishna joined together and started private centres in Bikaner, Khetri, Ajmer etc. In due course, centres at Khetri and Jaipur were affiliated to Ramakrishna Order. Thereby the desire of Swamiji to have a centre of service at JAIPUR, the historical pink city was fulfilled in the year 1988. Since then this centre has been rendering its humanitarian services in various ways.

RAMAKRISHNA MISSION, JAIPUR

Different Services rendered: 

SPIRITUAL
It is a well known fact that every soul aspires to have peace, bliss and fulfilment. And it is a  much more realized fact that one can have these within oneself i.e. the spirit behind everyone. To help this, meditation, bhajans, discourses, retreats etc. are conducted in the Ashrama campus. Celebrations of Gurupurnima, Janmashtami, Durgastami, Kali Puja, birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and others are observed. A prayer hall is made available for this purpose. A grand celebration is also held at Savitri Pahar, Pushkar every year with poor feeding in commemoration of Sri Sarada Devi’s visit to this place. Further, we feel proud to say that Jaipur is going to have a monumental Temple of Sri Ramakrishna similar to one at our Headquarters, Belur Math, Howrah.

MEDICAL WORK
To serve the poor patients, the medical unit in the campus is doing yeomen service for the last 22 years. Catering to the needy, the infirm and the impoverished people, this centre has been a source of compassion, offering primary healthcare through a dedicated team of volunteers. This unit offers free medical check up and medicines. Apart from consulting general physicians, the patients can avail the occasional services relating to Orthopaedics, Eye etc, The dispensary is open six days a week in the mornings.

Dispensary

MOBILE MEDICAL DISPENSARY 
Mobile medical services are offered to the rural people by a voluntary team which includes a doctor. It  serves at two centres covering a few villages on every Sunday by a Van.

Mobile dispenary
 

EDUCATIONAL
The centre runs a Public Library and Reading Room including a childrens’ section. There are 8971 books on various subjects in Hindi, English and Bengali catering to about 500 members. There are 30 magazines and 8 periodicals in the Reading Room.
Scholarships are awarded to the poor and deserving medical students and others.

Library

RELIEF WORK
Ramakrishna Mission, Jaipur has been conducting relief work in Rajasthan whenever the situations demanded.  It helped the afflicted people with food grains, clothes, blankets and other basic needs at the times of floods and severe droughts. It also organized cattle camps serving the affected animals with green and dry fodder, cattle feed, water under arranged shelters

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
BALAVRINDA : To impart our invaluable culture to the present day children  Bala Vrinda is recently started. It is meant for school children above 8 years. Vedic chanting, Bhajans and moral stories are taught to the children. English is also taught here. It is conducted on Sundays in the morning.

Letter from the Secretary

Ramakrishna Mission, Jaipur is a branch centre of world renowned Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission having its head quarters at Belur Math, Howrah – West Bengal. This centre is located in the capital of Rajasthan which is historically named as the Pink City. It is a matter of great pleasure that a centre of service in the name of Sri Ramakrishna took shape in 1978 as if to fulfil the wish of  Swami Vivekananda in this city of rich cultuaral heritage  of forts, monuments, temples etc.
Dr. Omkar Saxena and a group of ardent devotees of Sri Ramakrishna made their sincere efforts to start a centre in Jaipur which was fulfilled in 1978. Apart from facilities for other services, a prayer hall was also built.   Further, the devoted, earnest and enthusiastic group succeeded in affiliating this centre as the full fledged branch of Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Swami Pujyanandaji Maharaj became the first head of this branch in 1988.

For the past 32 years, regular daily worship and other celebrations are being conducted in the existing prayer hall. There has been a proposal since the inception to build a suitable temple of appropriate design befitting the historical Pink City but such a proposal could not be implemented so far for lack of adequate financial and other resources. Hence, the imperative need of the hour is to build a universal temple similar to Belur Math for the devotees. The temple includes an auditorium  at  the  basement for

Bhoomi Puja

for discourses and cultural programmes. The estimated cost of the project is 5(five) crores.  Also there is a need to raise a Corpus Fund of Rs. One crore to meet the future maintenance of the temple and regular/special  worships.
 
Basing on receipt of some funds, we have started the work. Two pictures of the same are given in this leaflet. To complete the long cherished desire of  devotees of Jaipur, we appeal to the generous public to donate liberally for the early completion of the Project. In this connection, we would like to reiterate that all our service activities depend entirely on the generous donors, devotees, institutions and well wishers. We do not receive any grant from the government – either  Central or the State. Hence, we  appeal to you for help financially or otherwise in serving the humanity.

Yours in the service of the Lord,
Swami Hridananda
Secretary

You can make donations favouring ‘Ramakrishna Mission, Jaipur’ by Cheque/DD/M.O. For any details you may contact : 08875797465, 09785561009
Donations are exempt under 80G of the Income Tax act

Work – in - Progress

AN APPEAL FOR A NEW  UNIVERSAL TEMPLE 

To fulfil the dream of Swami Vivekananda, we appeal to generous public to donate liberally for the early completion of  the universal temple of Sri Ramakrishna(as visualized above)

Ramakrishna Mission
           Jaipur
Gautam Marg, ‘C’ Scheme                  
PIN – 302 001
Phone : 0141- 2228704, 5118804
Fax     : 0141- 222 5904
email  : rkmpinkcity@gmail.com
Web    :  www.rkmjaipur.org