5317 x 3840 px | 45 x 32,5 cm | 17,7 x 12,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
10 aprile 2016
Ubicazione:
Chennai India
Altre informazioni:
Swami Vivekananda on his triumphal return from the West was requested by the devotees in Madras (now Chennai) to start a Math here.To fulfil their earnest desire Swamiji sent his brother-disciple Swami Ramakrishnananda to Madras in March 1897 and thus Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras, came into existence. After reaching Madras, the first thing Swami Ramakrishnananda did was to set up a small shrine for Sri Ramakrishna at a rented house. He lived there and led a life of renunciation, service and austerities. Slowly he built up the institution as the present Sri Ramakrishna Math which is a hub of multipronged service activities. This is the oldest centre of the Ramakrishna Order in the South. Sri Ramakrishna Math completed hundred years of its service in 1997. The shrine of Sri Ramakrishna set up in 1917 in the present Math was clearly too small to accommodate the growing number of devotees. It was therefore natural that monks and devotees dreamt for long that a grand temple should come up at the Math. The collective wish of and the silent prayers of good-hearted led to the launching of the Universal Temple project. Swami Vivekananda’s vision, Swami Ramakrishnananda’s austerity, and the earnest prayers of devotees combined with the social need have all contributed toward the transformation of a dream into a reality. Srimat Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj, the 12th President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, laid the foundation-stone for this Universal Temple on 1 December 1994 in a grand solemn function. It took five years for the project to take shape as the present grand Universal Temple. On 7 Feb 2000 the temple was dedicated by Srimat Swami Ranganathanandaji Maharaj, the 13th President of the Ramakrishna Order.
