Videos

Special Lectures and Programs

Lectures by guest speakers.

Labor Day Retreat 2015

Swami Tattwamayananda conducted our annual Labor Day Retreat at Olema on September 5-7, 2015. The topic was “We Are What We Think.”

“Practical Spiritual Life” by Swami Sridharananda

Swami Sridharananda, a senior monk and president of the Vedanta Centre of Sydney, gave a talk on “Practical Spiritual Life,” when he visited us on August 15, 2015.

Summer Retreat – 2015

Swami Tattwamayananda gave the Summer Retreat from July 18 – 26, 2015. The topic was “The Vedantic Way of Life.” Videos are only available for July 20-25, 2015.

Guru Purnima, August 1, 2015

YouTube Video Links for Lectures and Classes

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Sunday Lectures

Sunday lectures given by Swami Tattwamayananda and Swami Vedananda.

Memorial Day 2015 Special Program

Video recordings of talks given by Reverend Dr. Gwynne Guibord and Swami Atmavidyananda on “Religion for World Peace” as well as a question-and-answer session.

Swami Prabuddhananda’s Memorial Service

The memorial service honoring Revered Swami Prabuddhananda was held on Saturday, October 18, 2014, at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco.

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]