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The Math and Mission run 748 educational institutions (including 12 colleges, 22 higher secondary schools, 41 secondary schools, 135 schools of other grades, 4 polytechnics, 48 vocational training centres, 118 hostels, 7 orphanages, etc.) with a total student population of more than 2,00,000.
Sri Sarada Math is the monastic order for women established as an independent counterpart to Ramakrishna Order.The main aim of the organisation is to fulfill the mission of Swami Vivekananda, that is 'Shiva Jnane Jiva Seva' serving God in Man, irrespective of caste, creed, and nationality as well as the upliftment and empowerment of women.
Pravrajika Mokshaprana, born Renuka Basu (9 December 1915 – 30 August 1999), was the second President of the Sri Sarada Math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission.In Hinduism, Sri Sarada Math is the monastic Order for women established as an independent counterpart to the Ramakrishna Order.
Holy Mother : Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi, Wife of Sri Ramakrishna and Helpmate in His Mission. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center. ISBN 978-0-911206-20-3. Swami Saradeshananda. The Holy Mother as I Saw Her. Swami Tapasyananda (1986). Sri Sarada Devi ; The Holy Mother. Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. ISBN 978-81-7120-487-8.
At present, the Math and the Mission run about 25 centres in India and abroad. Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, a partly residential degree college for women, was the first educational institution started by the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission. It came into existence in 1961 as a humble effort to carry out Swami Vivekananda's ideals of education among women.
The school was inaugurated by Sarada Devi, in the presence of Swami Vivekananda and some of the other disciples of Ramakrishna. [4] Sarada Devi blessed and prayed for the school saying "I pray that the blessings of the Divine Mother may be upon the school and the girls; and the girls trained from the school may become ideal girls." [2]: 22
The Math was named Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Math and the philanthropic Mission was named 'Vivekananda Mission'. The Math and Mission were registered according to government regulations on 13 December 1929. [citation needed] By 1931 the Math and Mission had moved to its own house at 10, Ramakrishna Lane, Baghbazar.
Ramakrishna Math is the administrative legal organization of the Ramakrishna Order, [1] of Daśanāmi Sampradaya. It was set up by sanyasin disciples of Ramakrishna Paramhansa headed by Swami Vivekananda at Baranagar Math in Baranagar , a place near Calcutta (now Kolkata), in 1886.