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Swami Advaitananda

In 1897 Swamiji returned from the West and established the Ramakrishna Mission. He wanted to do some philanthropic work for the regeneration of India's poor. For that reason he recalled those brother disciples who were practising austerities in various parts of India. Advaitananda responded to Swamiji's call: He left Varanasi and went to Alambazar, where the monastery had been moved in 1892. In hte early part of 1898, a plot of land was purchased at Belur on the bank of the Ganges for the permanent home of the Order, and Advaitananda was entrusted to make the land ready for construction. The site had previously been used as a dock for repairing boats and steamers, and the landscape was uneven. On 13 February the Ramakrishna Monastery was moved from Alambazar to Nilambar Babu's garden house, just south of the new property.