Ramakrishna Mission

A Hindu monastic and philanthropic organization founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897 to serve humanity and teach Vedanta.

Swami Vivekananda: An Indian Hindu monk and teacher who introduced Vedanta to international audiences and founded the Ramakrishna Mission. He established the Mission in 1897 and shaped its combination of spiritual practice and public service.
Karma yoga: A path of spiritual practice that seeks liberation through selfless action without attachment to its results. The Mission frames service as a spiritual discipline rather than charity alone.
Sarada Devi: A Bengali Hindu spiritual teacher revered as the consort and spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna. Her guidance and example shaped the early Ramakrishna community and its understanding of spiritual life.
Hindu reform movements: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements that reinterpreted Hindu traditions amid social and political change. The Mission became one influential institutional expression of modern Hindu reform.
Ramakrishna: A nineteenth-century Bengali Hindu mystic whose teachings and life inspired the Ramakrishna movement. The Mission carries forward the spiritual legacy of the teacher for whom it is named.
Vedanta: A family of Hindu philosophical traditions centered on the Upanishads and the nature of ultimate reality. Vedanta supplies the philosophical teaching that the Mission presents alongside its service work.
Swami Brahmananda: A direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna and the first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. He led the organization after Vivekananda and helped consolidate its monastic institutions.
Vedanta Society: An organization that teaches Vedanta, often associated with branches of the Ramakrishna movement outside India. Vivekananda’s international work led to related Vedanta institutions beyond the Mission’s Indian service network.
Ramakrishna Math: The monastic organization of the Ramakrishna Order, closely associated with the Ramakrishna Mission. The Math and Mission were organized as distinct but closely connected institutions.
Seva: Selfless service performed as a religious or ethical practice in South Asian traditions. Seva describes the practical ideal behind the Mission’s educational, medical, and relief work.

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