Swami Vivekananda 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations

Palace of Fine Arts, February 23, 2013

On Saturday, February 23, 2013, the Vedanta Society of Northern California held an all-day program “Exploring Yoga and Freedom” in honor of Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birthday at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco.

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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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