Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala - Swami Vivekananda's Statue

Swami Vivekananda's Statue

A statue of Swami Vivekananda in a meditation pose, at the entrance of Vidyashala, is sculpted by an artist from Burma, U. Han Tin. It is made of Caen stone from England. The statue was earlier located at the Ramakrishna Mission Hospital in Rangoon (Yangon) in Burma (Myanmar). During the 1962 military coup in Burma, the large hospital run by the Mission was taken over by the military junta; the junta allowed the Mission to relocate the statue.

In 1965, the statue was transported from Burma to Mysore. It was unveiled at its current location in 1978 by Lal Krishna Advani, the then Indian Union minister of information and broadcasting, during Vidyashala's silver jubilee celebration.

The statue is housed in a granite mandapa designed in the style of the Bhagavad Gita chariot by Vidyashala's architect, E. Ashirvadam. It combines Bengali and Dravidian styles of architecture. Swami Vivekananda's aphorism, "Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man," is inscribed on a plaque at the statue's base.