Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith | |
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Location | |
Deoghar, Jharkhand, India 814112 |
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Coordinates | 24°30′20″N 86°41′46″E / 24.50556°N 86.69611°ECoordinates: 24°30′20″N 86°41′46″E / 24.50556°N 86.69611°E |
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School type | Residential Boys' Senior Secondary |
Established | 1922 |
Medium of language | English |
Publication | Sangeet Sangraha, Sangeet Mala, Vivekananda Katha O Galpa, Vivekananda ki Laghu Kathayaein, Atma Vikas, Baccho ke Sri Ramakrishna in Hindi |
Affiliation | Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) |
Website | http://www.rkmvdeoghar.org/ |
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar is a residential boys' senior secondary school in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India, established in 1922. It is the oldest institute of Ramakrishna Mission, and used to be visited by brother disciples of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Atmaprabhananda served as a principal during the 1990s.
It is exclusively for boys and permanently affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. Admission to its Secondary section is restricted to standard VI only. However, a few students from other schools are also admitted in class XI, in case the seats are available for them after giving entry to its own students who do well in class X Board examination. The school offers education in science stream only in its Senior Secondary Section. The boys are taken in it entirely on merit ascertained by dint of written, oral and other tests. Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar was ranked 4 out of all CBSE schools in 2015 basis overall aggregates in Class XII CBSE exams in 2015.
Sri Ramakrishna was born Gadadhar Chatterjee in 1836 at Kamarpukur about sixty miles from Calcutta. His parents, Khudiram and Chandramani, were poor and made ends meet with great difficulty. He disliked going to school and, when asked why he did not want to go to school, his reply was The so-called education is for earning money only ; I don't care for this kind of education.
He loved Nature and spent his time in fields and fruit gardens outside the village with his friends. Gadadhar lost his father at the age of seven. He became more serious from then on, but he did not change his ways and habits. For instance, he would not go to school, Instead, he was seen visiting monks who stopped at his village on their way to Puri. He would serve them and listen with attention to the arguments they had among themselves over religious issues.
Gadadhar had now attained the age when he should be invested with the sacred thread. When arrangements were nearly complete for this, Gadadhar declared that he would have his first alms as a brahmin from a certain sudra woman of the village.