#belurmath

This post brings an end to our stay in Kolkata. We were happy to leave the city because we were eager to return home and had had enough of living out of a suitcase after traveling for 5 weeks. To be fair, Kolkata new town, with its laid back life, restaurants serving tasty food, easy availability of rickshaws to take us to the community mall, friendly staff at the Marriott and the sumptuous…

Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897.The Mission was to enable monks and laypeople to jointly undertake the propagation of Practical Vedanta, render various forms of social service.In early 1898, Swami Vivekananda set up at Belur one of the famous Ramakrishna Math.Belur Math is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.It is located on the west bank of Hooghly River, Belur, West Bengal, India and is one of the significant institutions in Kolkata.