Birth of Sri Ramakrishna Mission

To establish work on a firm basis, Vivekananda summoned all the monastic and lay disciples of Paramahamsa to a meeting and the Sri Ramakrishna Mission was formed on 1st May, 1897. The aims and ideals of the Mission propounded by him were purely spiritual and humanitarian. He had inaugurated the machinery to carry out his ideas. In the following year, when plague broke out in Calcutta, he organized relief work with the help of the monastery and the lay disciples and helped the poor people immensely by bringing the plagues under control without its playing of too much havoc. “Of the Swamis numerous triumphs”, says his biographer, “one of the greatest was his conversion of his Gurubhais from the individualistic to the national idea of religious life in which public spirit and service to fellowmen occupied the prominent place.”