Join us via ZoomthisSunday morning at 11am when Br. Shankara will give a talk on "Modern Masters of Advaita — Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi & Nisargadatta Maharaj." More on this talk below and on our website.
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New Saturday Class @ 12noon
We have begun reading and discussing "How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. The Center's Bookshop is currently closed, but you can purchase a hardbound, paperback, or Kindle version from Amazon.com.
Your Center -- including the Chapel and Bookshop -- is closed to the public until further notice due to the current covid-19 flare-up and Omicron variant surge. There will be no in-person activities for now. Our priority is to keep our devotees, friends and residents of the Center safe. We appreciate your care and understanding.
January is a month for study of Jnana Yoga (advaita vedanta). As a jnana yogi, you practice discrimination, reason, detachment, and satyagraha (insistence on Truth). The goal is freedom from limitation (moksha). Our teachers say that all miseries in life are caused by seeing inaccurately. An earnest and persistent jnani may break through this misapprehension (maya) and see only the Divine Presence everywhere, in everything and everyone.
Sunday January 16 2022 11am - noon
Modern Masters of Advaita — Vivekananda,
Ramana Maharshi & Nisargadatta Maharaj
w/ Br. Shankara
Our current beliefs are the operating system for a life within maya — nothing more. Learning higher practical and spiritual beliefs is said to be auspicious, because they cause fewer agitations in the mind. Yet, “… fetters, though of gold, are not less strong to bind,” wrote Swami Vivekananda.
This Sunday morning we will discuss the lives and teachings of three great masters of the non-dual path. All of them lived and taught in the 20th Century.
We’ll start by reviewing short biographies of Swami Vivekananda (whose solar calendar birthday was January 12th*), Ramana Maharshi, and Nisargafatta Maharaj.
Next, we’ll compare and contrast what they taught about important principles and practices of advaita vedanta: discrimination, detachment, concentration, and insistence on Truth.
Then, we’ll practice 10 minutes of silence. Sunday’s meeting will end with an open forum on non-dualism.
*At 11am on Sunday January 23rd, your Center will celebrate Swamiji’s lunar calendar birthday with a puja conducted by Aditya Chaturvedi. You can join us on Zoom; use the “Sunday Talks & Special (Sunday) Events” link.
