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  ॐ श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः ॐ श्री शिवानन्दाय नमः Pictures of Belur Math, the HeadQuarters of Sri Ramakrishna Math, are posted right below the following brief write-up. Please don't miss viewing them. Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are twin organizations which form the core of a worldwide spiritual movement (known as Ramakrishna Movement or Vedanta Movement ), which aims at the harmony of religions, harmony of the East and the West, harmony of the ancient and the modern, spiritual fulfillment, all-round development of human faculties, social equality, and peace for all humanity, without any distinctions of creed, caste, race or nationality. RAMAKRISHNA MATH is a monastic organization for men brought into existence by Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), the great 19th century Saint of Bengal, who is regarded as the Prophet of the Modern Age. RAMAKRISHNA MISSION is a registered society in which monks of Ramakrishna Math and lay devotees, cooperate in conducting variou

  ॐ श्री गुरुभ्यो नमः ॐ श्री शिवानन्दाय नमः Swami Vishnudevananda was the founder of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres & Ashrams around the globe. Vishnudevananda Saraswati (1927 – 1993) was a direct disciple of Gurudev Swami Sivananda Saraswati , of The Divine Life Society, Rishikesh , and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams . He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Course, one of the first Yoga teacher training programs in the West. His books The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga (1959) and Meditation and Mantras (1978) established him as an authority on Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga . The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres is a non-profit organization, named after Swami Sivananda and founded by  Swami Vishnu-devananda . Its purpose is to propagate the teachings of Yoga and Vedanta as a means of achieving physical, mental and spiritual well being and Self-Realization. Gurudev Swami Sivananda Saraswathi's books ar