The Sister Nivedita Cultural Festival is an engaging and enlightening celebration of India’s vibrant culture and traditions, featuring a series of talent contests for students from UKG to Class 7. Organized by Sri Sarada Math Nivedita Vidya Peetha, Bengaluru, this premier inter-school competition provides a platform for children to discover and showcase their unique, innate creative talents. The event successfully took place on Saturday, 18th July 2026, on the Math premises, inspiring young minds to explore their cultural roots while discovering their creative talents.
471 students from 12 schools enthusiastically competed across 13 diverse events like Coloring, Chanting, Mimicry, Fancy Dress, Sayings, Kannada and English Hand Writing, Elocution, Story Reading, Devotional Songs, Gita Shloka, Pencil Shading, Essay Writing and Classical Dance, with many showcasing talents in multiple categories. The total number of participants were 631. The lunch was provided by the Math for all.
Pravrajika Chitprabhaprana Mataji, In-Charge of Nivedita Vidya Peetha, warmly welcomed the gathering. The event was graced by Chief Guest Dr. Bharathi A, who presented trophies and Certificates of Merit to the prize winners. Dr. Bharathi A, is HOD, Senior Specialist, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, ESIC Hospital Peenya, Bengaluru. In her address to the gathering, she mainly advised parents, to teach their children not to compete with others, but to focus on self-improvement compared to their own past.
The coordinating teachers collected participation certificates on behalf of their respective schools. As the program concluded, everyone had almond milk and biscuits. The cultural festival owed its grand success to the dedicated teamwork of Nivedita Vidya Peetha staff alongside numerous devoted volunteers and friends of the Math.
Visit of Most Rev. Jnanadaprana Mataji, Treasurer of Sri Sarada Math & Ramakrishna Sarada Mission – 17th to 25th June 2026
Garbha Mandir
Mataji Offering Arghya
Spiritual Retreat
Devotees
Most Rev. Jnanadaprana Mataji visited Sri Sarada Math, Bangalore. She came on 17th June and left on 25th June 2026. During her stay, she visited Ramakrishna Math of Basavanagudi. After pranam to Sri Sri Thakur, went up to the mother’s rock to do pranam to her and met Rev. Nityasthanandaji Maharaj. Mataji went to J.J.Halli, met kids of the school, attended their various programme. A spiritual retreat was organized on 20.6.2026. Rev. Mataji spoke about her reminiscences with senior sannyasinis of Sri Sarada math. About seventy devotees attended and were very happy to know about them. All had prasad, returned home with joy and peace within.
Notebook Distribution, Junjaramanahalli – 13th June 2026
During the notebook distribution initiative, a total of 2,670 long notebooks and 958 king-size notebooks were distributed to support local education. This program successfully reached 810 beneficiaries, which included 645 high school students and 165 higher primary school students.
Summer Camp, Nivedita Vidya Peetha, Bengaluru – 1st to 14th April 2026
Nivedita Vidya Peetha, Bengaluru successfully hosted a vibrant summer camp from 1st April to 14th April, 2026, running daily from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for students from 1st std. to college girls. The camp provided the students an inspiring environment to discover, express, and nurture their unique talents. About 50 participants were benefited by this camp. The participants were divided by age into three distinct groups: Bile, Narendra, and Vivekananda. Guided by 9 teachers, the students received comprehensive training in diverse areas.
Each day began with yoga, daily prayers, and shanthi mantras, followed by educational sessions on the stories of Jyotirlingas and locating them on an atlas. The students also explored their creativity through gardening, drawing, colouring, and various crafts, including making masks, flowers, wristbands, earrings, and woollen wall hangings. To help the students relax and improve their concentration, each day concluded with games like Alegilimane, Kuntebille, Snake & Ladder, and Chowkabara. Nutritious snacks and lunch were also served daily to all participants.
On 14th April, the final day of the camp, each group took to the stage to showcase their craft projects and share what they had learned. The camp yielded remarkable outcomes. The younger children in the Bile and Narendra groups showed a noticeable boost in self-confidence, communicating comfortably in English and mastering the art of teamwork.
The older students in the Vivekananda group surprised everyone by easily understanding the deep ideas about self-discovery (“Who am I?”) and the meaning of life and death. The event wrapped up with a gift distribution for all participants, most of whom expressed sincere gratitude to the organization for hosting such a meaningful, value-based summer camp.
Visit of Most Revered Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj, President of Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission to Sri Sarada Math, Bengaluru on 21-3-26.
Most Revered Swami Gautamanandaji Maharaj offering arghya in the shrine and performing arati to the Holy Trio.
Most Revered Gautamanandaji Maharaj visited Sri Sarada Math, Bengaluru on 21.3.2026. He came at around 9.30 am, our primary school children played band set while he was entering the premises from Gate to the Temple.
Then, he went to the Shrine to offer argya, followed by Arati of incense sticks and panch pradeep to Sri Ramakrishna, Jagat Janani Sri Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda. For a long time, he prayed in the shrine.
Later, we rendered pranams to him and he blessed us all.
Sm. Purnima Ganguly & party sang bhajans while we were offering pranams to the Revered Maharaj. He left at around 10.30 am after staying for about an hour here.
Spiritual Retreat – 1st March 2026
Pravrajika Yogatmaprana
Pravrajika Amoghaprana
Shyama Nrendranath
Devotees
A Spiritual Retreat was held on Sunday, 9th March 2025, from 9:30 am to 12:15 pm. The programme consisted of Vedic Chanting, Reading from Daily Thoughts and Prayers, followed by Welcome Address, Speeches in Kannada and English, along with Bhajans on Sri Sarada Devi, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. Prasad was distributed after 12:15 pm.
Pravrajika Yogatmaprana is rendering seva in our Rural Devt. Project at Junjuramanahalli, near Tumakuru. She delivered lecture in Kannada on “Sampada tava sripada” on Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
Pravrajika Amoghaprana is rendering seva in Kampti centre of Nagpur. Earlier, she has rendered seva in many other centres including Pune and Chikmagaluru. Her lecture topic was “Manifestation of Divinity even in the minutest work” on Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
Shyama Nrendranathan is Bio-Senior scientist at ISRO. She received initiation from Rev.Ranganathanandaji Maharaj. Her lecture topic was “Seeking truth – the scientific way: what I learnt from Swamiji’s works” on Swami Vivekananda
Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna’s Birthday was celebrated at Sri Sarada Math, Bengaluru on Thursday, 19th February from 7:30 am to 12:15 pm. The programme consisted of Special Puja, Vishnu Sahasranama Chanting, Bhajans, Havan, Reading from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Discourse on His life & teachings and Arati. Friends and Devotees were cordially invited to attend the function. Prasad was distributed after 12:15 pm.
Smt.Gowramma was the guest speaker. She spoke on the topic “The essence of Bhagavadgita in the simple teachings of Sri Ramakrishna”.
The Birthday Celebration of Swami Vivekananda was held at Sri Sarada Math, Bengaluru on 10th January 2026 from 7:30 am to 12:15 pm. The programme started with Special Puja, Kathopanishad Chanting, Havan, followed by Bhajans and Discourse. Friends and devotees were invited to participate on this sacred day. Prasad was distributed after 12:30 pm.
Jaganmayi Himamshu was the guest speaker. She is a fine artist and programmer with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master of Fine Arts degree from America. After working at animation studios across the United States, she returned to India to focus on her true passions: fine art oil painting and writing. Her artworks have been featured in magazines, and one of her paintings was presented as an official gift from Auroville to the Queen Mother of Bhutan. She has also translated the Kannada book “GanaYogi Kempegowda” into English. Her creative practice is inspired by mythology, psychology and philosophy. She is an ardent devotee of the holy Trinity, Sri Takur, Ma and Swamiji and the title of her lecture was : Swami Vivekananda’s Universal Love. It was live streamed on Sri Sarada Math, Bengaluru’s YouTube Channel.The programme lecture can be found in the Lecture Page
