The Students’ Home is part of the Ramakrishna Mission with Headquarters in Belur, Howrah Dt, West Bengal. The Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission are the twin organizations created by the Sannyasin disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and attained an exalted state of spiritual illumination. Before he left his mortal coils in 1886, he gathered a band of young Sannyasin disciples dedicated to the pursuit of the ideals propounded by him.
  

The basic tenets of Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings are:

  • There is but One God, by whatsoever name He may be called.
  • All religions are equally valid and are but several paths leading to the same goal.
  • There is Divinity in all human beings and Service to Humanity is Service to God.
INSPIRATION:
Sri Ramakrishna Himself exemplified his concern for the poor and neglected people. During a pilgrimage he undertook, he insisted that their needs should first be met before he could proceed further on the pilgrimage.
  
  
The Holy Mother, His divine consort, was an embodiment of kindness to fellow beings and enjoyed, from her very young age, serving the poor.  
Swami Vivekananda, the foremost among the monks of Ramakrishna order said “They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive”.

“The only service to be done for our lower classes is to give them education, to develop their lost individuality”.

“All love is life; it is the only law of life; all selfishness is death, and this is true here or hereafter”.

“It is life to do good, it is death not to do good to others”. “Feel my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the down trodden; feel, till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad – then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, health and indomitable energy”.