Shanti Ashrama Retreat Photos

Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2017

Swamis Vedananda, Prapannananda, Aparananda, Tattwamayananda, Varadananda, Prasannatmananda, Asutoshananda

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 29, 2017. Swami Varadananda from the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago was the special guest speaker.

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Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2016

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 30, 2016. Swami Chandrasekharananda from the Vedanta Society in Portland, Oregon, was the special guest speaker.

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Shanti Ashrama 2015

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 25, 2015.

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Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2014

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 26, 2014.

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Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2013

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 2013.

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Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2012

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 2012.

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Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2011

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 2011.

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Shanti Ashrama Retreat 2010

Worship offering, Shanti Ashrama, Vedanta Society of Northern California

Photos from the annual retreat day at Shanti Ashrama, April 2010.

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A True Teacher

July 19, 2017 / Temple / Monthly Reading

First you must find a teacher, a true teacher, and you must remember that he is not just a man. You may get a teacher in the body, but the real teacher is not in the body; he is not the physical man—he is not as he appears to your eyes. It may be the […]

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Swami Vivekananda on Equality

June 11, 2017 / Temple / Monthly Reading

In what scriptures do you find statements that women are not competent for knowledge and devotion? In the period of degradation, when the priests made the other castes incompetent for the study of the Vedas, they deprived the women also of all their rights. Otherwise you will find that in the Vedic or Upanishadic age […]

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The Concentrated Mind is a Lamp

May 11, 2017 / Temple / Monthly Reading

Perception is our only real knowledge or religion. Talking about it for ages will never make us know our soul. There is no difference between theories and atheism. In fact, the atheist is the truer man. Every step I take in the light is mine forever. When you go to a country and see it, […]

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