The Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa is a Branch of the Worldwide Ramakrishna Mission, which has its Headquarters at Belur Math, West Bengal, India. The President and Vice-President of the Centre are monks of the Ramakrishna Order; and they, together with lay devotees and volunteers form the organisation which offers a number of spiritual and welfare services to achieve the aims and objectives of the Centre.  The Centre is registered with the Department of Social Welfare (NPO No. 053-630-NPO). It is also a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO No. 930007651).

The Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa was founded by a group of young men led by Mr Dhanagopal Naidoo who later became an ordained monk with the name Swami Nischalananda.

Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission is a worldwide, apolitical, non-sectarian spiritual organization which is engaged in various forms of humanitarian, social service activities for more than a century. Inspired by the ideals of renunciation and service, the monks and devotees of the Math and Mission serve millions of men, women and children, without any distinction of caste, religion or race, because they see the living God in them.

The organization was brought into existence by Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), the great 19th century saint from Bengal who is regarded as the Prophet of the Modern Age, and Sri Ramakrishna’s chief disciple, Swami Vivekananda(1863-1902), one of the foremost thinkers and religious leaders of the present age, who is regarded as ‘one of the main moulders of the modern world’, in the words of an eminent Western scholar A.L. Basham.

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