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2455 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510-848-8862
San Jose House, 1376 Mariposa Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126; 408-493-0665
Email: society@vedantaberkeley.org ; Website: www.vedantaberkeley.org

This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, our Thanksgiving Day event will not be held at the San Jose House. Instead, this year we will observe it virtually by participating in the Thanksgiving Day Spiritual Retreat 2020 .

We request you to please complete your registration by Nov 20, 2020.

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 PST.

Nov. 01: Swami Vivekananda
                  On Ethics
Nov.08: Harmony of Religions
Nov. 15:   God is in everything
                             and everywhere
Nov. 22: Absolute is Unknown
                          and Known
Nov. 29: No Sunday Lecture

Evening Classes are given through Zoom by Swami Prasannatmananda at the sanctuary of the Vedanta Society Berkeley every Thursday at 8:00 pm PST.

Nov. 05: Swami Vivekananda's
       Impact on the
                   Unite States
Nov. 12:        - do -
Nov. 19:        - do -
Nov. 26: No evening class due to
                  Thanksgiving Day
                  Spiritual Retreat 2020
                  at 11:00 am PST

Interview and Practical Instructions

Swami Prasannatmananda is glad to confer with those who are interested in knowing more about Vedanta or who want to discuss their spiritual interest. As all in-person activities are suspended due to the pandemic, the Swami requests that questions be asked online by clicking 'Ask Swami' on our website or over the telephone 510-848-8862.

A Thank You note: We deeply appreciate the financial support from the kindhearted well-wishers and friends of Vedanta Society Berkeley, especially during this unprecedented situation. Your continued support is pivotal for the maintenance and growth of the Vedanta Society Berkeley, thus connecting us together into a larger spiritual family.

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Online Bookstore:

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.

Above are the photographs from the worship of Mother Durga held on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, at the sanctuary of the Vedanta Society Berkeley.

Sri Sri Durga Puja at the Vedanta Society Berkeley 2020

Swami Prasannatmananda, the Swami-In-Charge of the Vedanta Society Berkeley and San Jose House, conducted Durga Puja on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, at 3pm at the sanctuary of the Vedanta Society Berkeley. Since gatherings are prohibited in California due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, devotees could not attend the puja in person. However, more than 150 devotees watched the puja by Facebook Live and Live streaming on YouTube to celebrate the occasion. Around ten volunteers wearing masks and maintaining prescribed distancing helped in the puja preparation and cooking prasad.

Swami Vivekanada: Always Alive

"I would advise those of you who have not read that book [Gita], to read it. If you only knew how much it has influenced your own country even! If you want to know the source of Emerson's inspiration, it is this book, the Gita. He went to see Carlyle and Carlyle made him a present of the Gita, and that little book is responsible for the Concord Movement. All the broad movements in America in one way or another, are indebted to the Concord party....."
[Refering to the Gita, in the course of his lecture on the Mahabharata delivered at Pasadena on Feb.1, 1900, CA, Swami Vivekananda said this]

Vedanta Society Berkeley
2455 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510-848-8862
society@berkeleyvedanta.org
San Jose House, 1376 Mariposa Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126; 408-493-0665; society@vedantaberkeley.org