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From our archives – Swami Vijayananda in St. Louis, Jan 21, 1940
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Swami Shantatmananda, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi delivered the Swami Shankarananda Memorial Lecture at the Vivekananda Hall, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park, Kolkata on August 16,2014. The Swami Shankarananda Memorial Lecture was on ‘Sri Ramakrishna’. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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[A Symposium on ‘Nation-building and Our Tasks‘ was held at the Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi, in February 1954. Evolution of a National Culture is largely based on the learned speech delivered on that occasion by Dr. C. P Ramaswami Aiyer,… Continue Reading →