Cossipore Garden House and Sri Ramakrishna

The branch of the Ramakrishna Math at Cossipore is popularly known as Udyanbati. This garden house was sanctified by Sri Ramakrishna's stay with his disciples during the last few months of his life, as also by his mahasamadhi. It was made a branch of Ramakrishna Math in 1946. Kalpataru Utsab is organised on 1st Day of every year.

  

Significance of Kalpataru Utsav :

Sri Ramakrishna said, " I have seen that (He) God and the one who dwells in my heart are one and same person.I shall make the whole thing public before I go,' the Master has said some time before. On January 1, 1886, he felt better and came down to the garden for a little stroll. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon. Some thirty lay disciples were in the hall or sitting about under the trees. Sri Ramakrishna said to Girish (Ghosh), 'Well Girish, what have you seen in me, that you proclaim me before everybody as an Incarnation of God?' Girish was not the man to be taken by surprise.

He knelt before the Master and said with folded hands, 'What can an insignificant person like myself say about the One whose glory even sages like Vyasa and Valmiki could not adequately measure?' The Master was profoundly moved. He said: 'What more shall I say? I bless you all. Be illumined!' He fell into a spiritual mood. Hearing these words the devotees, one and all, became overwhelmed with emotion. They rushed to him and fell at his feet. He touched them all, and each received an appropriate benediction. Each of them, at the touch of the Master, experienced ineffable bliss. Some laughed, some wept, some sat down to meditate, some began to pray. Some saw light, some had visions of their Chosen Ideals, and some felt within their bodies the rush of spiritual power

Mayapur and Hare Krishna Movement (ISKCON)

Mayapur is located on the banks of the river Ganges, at the point of its confluence with the Jalangi near Nawadwip, West Bengal, India about 130 km north of Kolkata (Calcutta). It is The Head Quarters of ISKCON, International Society for Krishna Consciousness and is considered a holy place and special significance to followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism as the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, regarded as a special incarnation of Krishna. It is visited by over a million pilgrims annually.

Mayapur can be reached by boat, and more commonly by train or bus. ISKCON Kolkata operates regular bus service from Kolkata to Mayapur. Frequent train service is available to Krishnanagar, Nadia from Kolkata's Sealdah Station, then 18 km by auto or cycle rickshaw to Mayapur. A Special Spiritual village with fragrance of spirituality around.

Belur Math and Ramakrishna Movement

Belur Maṭh or Belur Mutt is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, founded by great Spiritual leader and reformist Swami Vivekananda, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa.

Belur Math is located on the west bank of Hoogly River in Belur, West Bengal, India few kilometers away from the city of Kolkata and is one of the significant institutions in Calcutta.

This temple is the heart of the Ramakrishna Movement. The temple is notable for its architecture that fuses Hindu, Christian and Islamic motifs motifs as a symbol of unity of all religions.