Vedanta: Contemporary Writings

In the author's words, The only true healing is accomplished by contact with the spiritual essence.

In this book, Swami Vividishananada, the founder of the Vedantic Society of Western Washington presents his thoughts and ideas of Vedantic teachings for the modern world initiated by Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.  He was ordained by Swami Shivananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, and served as a monk in the United States from the thirties.

A collection of thoughtful questions and answers on spiritual practice in today's world.

Profound and practical spiritual discourses given by several direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna.

There is an organic wholeness to humanity. This is why human beings must, for their own sake, live by spiritual values.

Two lectures on living Vedanta delivered in San Francisco in 1957 and 1955 respectively.

This book contains reminiscences of 42 second-generation monks of the Ramakrishna Order. The lives of these monks were molded and heavily influenced by their contact with the first-generation monks who had lived with Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother, and Swami Vivekananda. The author, Swami Chetanananda, knew nearly all of these monks personally, and he provides inspiring descriptions of these associations, the monks’  character and teachings.