Join us via Zoom on Friday evening at 11:30pm for a New Year's Eve 'midnight' meditation and online fellowship. On Saturday, at 2:30pm via Zoom we will observe Kalpataru Day with readings and continuing fellowship. And on Sunday morning at 11am Br. Shankara will give a talk on "Mental renunciation — what is that?"
More on these activities plus Zoom links, below and on our website.
Please enjoy these weekend activities with us online. There are no in-person activities at this time due to the current covid-19 surge. The Chapel and Bookshop are also currently closed to all visitors.
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.
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Sunday’s talk will define mental renunciation and how, if you wish, to make it part of your daily spiritual practice.
Sri Ramakrishna often recommended this renunciation to householders. Yet, because the Master's devotional sadhana (spiritual journey) is so dramatic, his teachings on jnana yoga (the non-dual path) are sometimes obscured.
Sri Ramakrishna led his disciple Narendra Dutta (who became Swami Vivekananda) from an attitude of deep Western skepticism to a conviction that non-duality is the literal and most fundamental Truth.
Vivekananda said of Ramakrishna, "He's all bhakti (devotion) on the outside, all jnani (knower of Brahman) on the inside." On Sunday morning, we’ll discuss that “inner” Ramakrishna and his teachings on the householder jnani’s path to freedom.
