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| Swami Atmasthanandaji |
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| Swami Atmasthanandaji |
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| Swami Atmasthanandaji |
With profound distress,
we declare the passing without end of Swami Atmasthanandaji, President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, on Sunday, 18 June 2017 at around 5:30 pm at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan clinic, Kolkata. He was 98. He had been admitted to Seva Pratishthan clinic on 21 February 2015 for treatment of maturity infirmities. Disregarding best medicinal consideration, his condition deteriorated in the course of the most recent couple of days and he passed away around 5.30 p.m. on 18 June 2017.
The incineration will occur at Belur Math on Monday, 19 June 2017 at around 9.30 p.m. The entryways of Belur Math will stay open all during that time of the eighteenth and through the nineteenth till the last rituals are finished.
Conceived on the blessed Buddha Purnima day in May 1919, at Sabajpur, close Dhaka, he got mantra diksha from Swami Vijnananandaji Maharaj (a religious devotee of Sri Ramakrishna) in 1938 and joined the Ramakrishna Order at Belur Math on 3 January 1941 at 22 years old years. In 1945, Swami Virajanandaji Maharaj, the 6th President of the Order, gave him Brahmacharya pledges, and in 1949, Sannyasa promises and the name Swami Atmasthananda.
In the wake of serving the Order at Belur Math and the branches at Deoghar (Vidyapith) and Mayavati (Advaita Ashrama), he got the chance to serve Swami Virajanandaji Maharaj, the then President of the Order, for quite a while. He put in quite a long while in his blessed organization in the isolation of Shyamla Tal in the Himalayas. In 1952, he was presented on Ranchi TB Sanatorium branch as an Assistant Secretary. He endeavored to grow the Sanatorium’s administrations from various perspectives. He was sent to Rangoon (Yangon) Sevashrama as its Secretary in 1958. He built up the Sevashrama healing facility and it before long turned into the best doctor’s facility in Burma (Myanmar) around then. At the point when military rulers assumed control of Rangoon Sevashrama, he came back to India in 1965. He was presented on Rajkot branch as its head in 1966. The delightful sanctuary of Sri Ramakrishna at Rajkot Ashrama was worked amid his residency on his drive.
He was chosen a Trustee of the Ramakrishna Math and Member of the Governing Body of the Ramakrishna Mission in 1973. In 1975, he was selected an Assistant (General) Secretary of the twin associations. Under his stewardship as Relief Secretary, the Math and Mission led gigantic alleviation and restoration tasks in different parts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. He turned into the General Secretary of the Math and Mission in 1992 and kept on being in that post for a long time till 1997 when he turned into a Vice-President of the Order. He was chosen President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission on 3 December 2007.
Swami Atmasthanandaji voyaged broadly in different parts of the nation and visited numerous branches of the Order and some unaffiliated focuses. In 1998, he visited different places in the USA, Canada, Japan, and Singapore. He additionally went to Malaysia, Fiji, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at various occasions. In each one of those spots, he spread the message of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and Vedanta and furthermore gave mantra Diksha to numerous otherworldly searchers.
He was one of the key people to arrange Pallimangal (incorporated rustic advancement) exercises in Kamarpukur and Jayrambati, an adolescent instructional hub at Saradapitha (Belur) and numerous other social administration programs.