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.
Lectures are delivered through Live Streaming by Swami Prasannatmananda at the sanctuary of the Vedanta Society Berkeley every Sunday at 11:00 am PDT. May 02: Meditative Awareness
May 09: Buddha-Shankara-
Vivekananda -- (I) May 16: ----Do---- (II) May 23: ----Do----(III) May 30: Shodasi Puja : Attitude
of final reverence towards
womanhood
Every Thursday at 8:00 pm PDT Swami Prasannatmananda gives evening classes on 'Swami Vivekananda's Impact on the United States' at Vedanta Society Berkley through Zoom. May 06:Swami Vivekananda's
Impact on the United States May 13: Swami Vivekananda's
Impact on the United States May 20: Swami Vivekananda's
Impact on the United States May 27: Swami Vivekananda's
Impact on the United States
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Our online bookstore is continuing to serve the book enthusiasts as in-person activities are interrupted at Berkeley center and San Jose House due to the unprecedented pandemic. Order of books, artifacts and incense sticks can be placed HERE.
Interview and Practical Instructions:
Swami Prasannatmananda is glad to confer with those who are interested in knowing more about Vedanta or with those who want to discuss their spiritual interests with him. The Swami requests that appointments be made after lectures or clauses or over the telephone 510-848-8862.
Above are the photographs from the Worship in connection to Sri Ramanavami and Foundation Day of San Jose House
Observance of Sri Ramanavami and Foundation Day of San Jose House at 7 pm on Sunday, April 25, 2021
San Jose House, a satellite center of the Vedanta Society Berkeley, was started on Sri Ramanavami day on Sunday, April 20, 1975. To mark the 46th anniversary, Swami Prasannatmananda performed a short worship of Sri Ramakrishna with Arattrikam. Following the worship and arattrikam, Ms. Sumita Chakravorty, a devotee and professional singer and music teacher, sang Ramanama Sankirtanam. The event was live streamed on Facebook live, Zoom, and YouTube due to ongoing Covid 19 restrictions. About 85 people participated online by different platforms.
On Saturday, April 17, 2021, at 8:00 pm PDT, Swami Atmapriyananda delivered Living In Spirit lecture on - How to actualize Swami Vivekananda's vision ‘the dry, abstract Advaita must become living, poetic, in everyday life’.
In Vedanta Society Berkeley’s signature Living In Spirit lecture series, spiritual seekers were treated to a highly illuminating talk by Swami Atmapriyananda at 8:00 pm PDT on Saturday April 17, 2021. Swami Atmapriyananda, brilliant speaker and Pro-Chancellor of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute headquartered in Belurmath in India.
Vedanta Society Berkeley’s Living in Spirit series of lectures provide a platform for eminent academics and experts from diverse fields of study to explore ways in which their disciplines can help individuals realize the boundless human potential possibilities of life and find the way to manifest it.
About 70 international attendees participated in the event online. Several attendees expressed great appreciation for Swami Atmapriyananda message which reminded us that Advaita Vedanta is lively and poetic, vital and relevant to the investigation into our identity. The video of the lecture is available on Facebook and YouTube.
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Swami Vivekananda: Always Alive
It was the great Buddha, who never cared for the dualist gods, and who has been called an atheist and materialist, who yet was ready to give up his body for a poor goat. That Man set in motion the highest moral code, it is a ray of light from that Man. We cannot force the great hearts of the world into narrow limits, and keep them there, especially at this time in the history of humanity when there is a degree of intellectual development such as was never dreamed of even a hundred years ago. [from CW-II, pg.143]
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