People of different faiths, as well as those who have no particular belief, can benefit from the lectures. Vedanta is impersonal and rational; it is not a particular creed but includes all creeds and affirms that they are different expressions of One Truth.

Vedanta Society Berkeley maintains libraries both in   Berkeley Center and San Jose House. Books on Vedanta Philosophy,   Religion, and Other Philosophical Systems and Religious      Traditions of the world are available for the members to borrow. 

Books on Vedanta and Indian Religious literature are sold at the bookstore in the foyer of the Berkeley Center after Sunday and Thursday lectures. And at San Jose House before and after the Wednesday ‘Yogadharana’  and  Sunday evening lectures.

Prayer & Meditation

Those who like to spend some time in prayer, meditation, and to attend vesper service are welcome to do so at the   sanctuary of Berkeley center from 6:30 to 8:00 pm every evening except Sunday and Wednesday; and

at San Jose House every Wednesday and Sunday at 7:30 pm and 6:30 pm   respectively.

"Krishna the  'Lord of Souls' talks to Arjuna or Gudakesha, 'lord of sleep' (he who conquered sleep). The 'field of virtue' (the battlefield) is this world; the five brothers (all that we love and have to contend against); the most heroic brother, Arjuna (the awakened soul), is the general. We have to fight all sense-delights, the things to which we are most attached, to kill them. We have to stand alone; we are Brahman, all other ideas must be merged in this one".