Ramakrishna Mission Residential College

About Ramakrishna Mission Residential College

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College was started in July 1960. The college is affiliated to Calcutta University and is part of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama complex at Narendrapur. It is entirely residential and follows the basic principles and pattern which all educational institutions of Ramakrishna Mission.

The college endeavors to spread education among the young men of the society according to the best traditions of the country and instructing them in modern arts and science. It prepares the students for the university examinations and educates them also with the thoughts of Swami Vivekanada so that they can achieve growth and development in all prospects of life. The college encourages the students to become strong and healthy individuals with good morality and principles, who have respect for the higher values of life and are well conscious of their obligations to the poor and wretched part of the society. The college aims at involving the students in a series of well-planned activities and creating an elevating and conducive atmosphere in the whole campus.

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College , Narendrapur The Ramakrishna Mission Residential College at Narendrapur was built up in 1960 and is affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It has six science departments viz. Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics and Economics in honours courses. The honours in arts subjects are offered in English and History. Apart from this there are departments of Bengali, Political Science, Sanskrit, Hindi, Philosophy and Biology in general courses. The Post Graduate course is taught in this college in Physics and Chemistry. There is also a dedicated Research and Development wing for active Researches in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science. The medium of instruction is English and the poor and meritorious students are provided with financial help in various form.

The Ramakrishna Mission Residential College at Narendrapur has gone through a journey over six decades. It was started in Pathuriaghata immediately after the Bengal famine in 1943. This was a branch center of Ramakrishna Mission, which had a very humble beginning with a very small number of students. Later it shifted to its present site near Garia, in the year 1957 and gradually grew into large educational complex to achieve educational excellence. This journey was never smooth but co-operation came from different well wishers. Revered Swami Lokeswaranandaji Maharaj played a pivotal role in giving the present shape to this huge institutional complex. Presently the ashrama has more than two thousand scholars and hundred of workers. The students come from different parts of India, speaking different languages and having different religious faith. The institution has earned its fame due to excellent performance in various public and special examinations.

From the day Sri Ramakrishna was born dates the growth of modern India and of the Golden Age. A divine life steeped in the truest knowledge of Atman (Self), Sri Ramakrishna was the concentrated embodiment of knowledge, love, renunciation, catholicity and the desire to serve mankind. His halcyon infancy at the remote village Kamarpukur where he was born on 18 February, 1836, showed the deepest inclination towards spiritual practices of Hinduism. This further led to the sincerest observance of different other faiths such as Vaishnivism & Tantrism as well as other religions like Islam & Christianity -- all of which unfolded the Great Truth of One, Infinite Reality before him. Pervaded by this oneness in the state of 'Samadhi', he revalidated the Rig-Vedic declaration --'Truth is one, the wise speak of it variously.' The Kali temple at Dakshineswar where he lived later on became the confluence of people from all walks of life; gentry as well as laity rushed to him like bees coming of their own accord to the blooming flower. His deepest devotion and unfathomable urge for seeing Mother Kali was the beaconlight for a great many contemporary spiritual aspirants.

An extraordinary yet astonishingly simple speaking style adorned with knowledge of things spiritual and human was his very characteristic. Still all his knowledge was derived from direct perception. The boundless love that Sri Ramakrishna personified permeated his disciples -- monastic as well as householders -- and resulted in the founding of the Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission (founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897) that would carry the torch of 'Sacrifice & Service' to humanity. Such a God-intoxicated life was really a phenomenon that influenced and transformed great Indian minds such as Vidyasagar, Bankim Chandra, Girish Ghosh, Keshab Chandra, Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Bose and western scholars like Arnold Toynbee, Leo Tolstoy, Aldous Huxley, Roman Rolland, Christopher Isherwood et al. The life that itself was the message is the 'shining pillar of illumination', as Swami Vivekananda puts it, 'and by his light alone man now crosses the ocean of Samsara '.