We take this opportunity to place our hearty invitation to you and your family members & friends to our Sevashrama. Your visit will surely be an inspiration for us, and you can directly witness our services dedicated to poor and needy. More so, you will also enjoy the holy atmosphere of Vrindaban, being the holy land sanctified by the divine play of Lord Krishna. 

We earnestly request all of you to donate generously for this sacred cause. Cheques/Drafts may please be sent in the name of "Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Vrindaban". All donations are exempt under section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

During the long period of thirty years this Sevashrama has thoroughly justified its existence by administering in this humble way, to the physical needs of the poor, helpless, in and out patients as well as the needy regardless of caste, creed, sex, nationality looking upon them as veritable manifestation of Divinity. The workers of the Sevashrama comprise the monastic members and Brahmacharins of the Ramakrishna Orders who have stirred out of the isolation of individual spiritual pursuits to serve the Almighty father in his sick, helpless and poor children and work out their own salvation through humanitarian activities of the kind referred to.

This is one of the most sacred places of pilgrimage where innumerable episodes of pure divine love center round the foremost of the Incarnations – Lord Krishna. Countless pilgrims from the remotest parts of India come to pay visits to this place of hallowed memory and inspiring associations, a number of them prefer to settle down here to pass the rest of their lives peaceful devotion and prayer with the expectation of attaining ultimately eternal bliss in the world beyond.

The majority of them are poor and old. Such devotees in their religious ardor become indifferent to their physical necessities and it becomes customary for them to be callous to ordinary disease. On many festive occasions sadhus and householders alike assemble here rendering the sanitary problems of the locality appallingly acute and dreadful. On such occasion multifarious diseases breakout and take an epidemic form. The influx of the sick persons on such festive occasions becomes so exacting that the limited accommodation in the in-door hospital is unable to meet even the absolute requirements. The scanty financial resources of the Sevashrama are inadequate to be commensurate with the demands it to meet on normal and on special occasions.

Over and above the treatment of the sick, indigent families, widows, invalids, orphans and other deserving persons also receive occasional pecuniary assistance, when such a course becomes imperatively necessary.

Our most grateful sincere thanks are due to the innumerable friends, sympathizers, donors and subscribers whose liberal contributions and active co-operation have enabled us to continue the labour of love and worship with a degree of efficiency and success and the Management hope that the number of such benefactors will be on the increase from year to year. The generous public is earnestly requested to come forward with their quota of financial help for the furtherance of the humanitarian work and worship undertaken by the self-less workers of the Sevashrama.

Swami Akhandananda

President, Ramakrishna Mission

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With the end of 1937, the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Brindaban has completed the thirty-first year of its existence, from a humble beginning this useful institution has grown from day to day through the devoted services of the monastic workers and the sympathy and co-operation of the generous public. It administers to the physical needs of the diseased and helpless, irrespective of any distinction of any caste or creed. The spirit which actuates its monastic workers to undertake this work of love is the same as that which underlies all philanthropic and educational institutions of the Ramakrishna Mission.

In this sacred land of ours, monasticis and work has long been considered incompatible, and for centuries, selfless service as a means of self-purification and spiritual growth was forgotten. But it was the great spiritual genius of Swami Vivekananda that thought us that selfless loving service of Daridra Narayanas has the same spiritual values as any other devotional practice. The result of the great Swami’s spiritual insight and clarion call for service of Divinity in the poor, the sick and the ignorant has been the birth of many institutions of service under the Mission. This new interpretation of the spiritual philosophy of India is not, however, foreign to the spirit of the teachings of Sri Krishna, the Lord of Brindaban. For has not the Lord of the Gopis also played in the role of a friend and guide of Arjuna in the battle field of Kurukshetra and assured him that selfless service also leads to the same goal as Jnana, Bhakti and Yoga? Thus the Sevashram is serving the Lord in His universal form.

From the practical and pragmatic point of view also the Sevashrama has proved its usefulness to the public. This sacred place of pilgrimage is visited every year by thousands of devotees, both rich and poor especially during festival days. The congregation of devotees in large numbers and neglect of hygienic principles naturally cause the outbreak of epidemics such as cholera and small-pox. On such occasions, our workers organize relief parties and render valuable service to the needy. Besides rendering medical aid, our workers also serve many helpless pilgrims when they fall victim to other calamities in a strange place. In this way the Sevashrama workers extend their helping hand to all the times of distress.

Brindaban being an ancient sacred place, thousands of Vaishnavas and Sadhus come to pass their last days here and when dark days of sickness fall on them, they find the Sevashrama as a place for shelter and service. We, therefore, invite every visitor to this holy place to pay a visit to this institution and see personally the humble services that are being rendered by it.

We, therefore, earnestly appeal to the generous public to help this old and useful institution with liberal contributions, so that more extensive and efficient service may be given. We hope there will be adequate response to our appeal, and every generous person will come forward to contribute his share, however humble it may be, for the philanthropic work.

Swami Vijnanananda

President, Ramakrishna Mission

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