He’s got the whole world in his hands
W ell, if we needed a reminder that we never know what’s coming at us around the bend, isn’t this it?! As you know, the entire world is struggling to control a major pandemic — the first in more than a century.
Like you, we’re doing our best to keep priorities straight: Staying home, keeping “the distance,” washing our hands, making an effort to flatten the curve.
Perhaps, in these trying circumstances you will have a little extra time to spend with us. We hope our contributors can offer you some moments away from the dreadful transformation unfolding around us — a soupçon of spiritual uplift, calming and sustaining.
May you and everyone you care about be well and in bright spirits,
Br. Shankara
Coordinating Editor
Issue 76
Here’s what’s in this edition:
Was Vivekananda a Pragmatist?
—an inquiry
by Asim Chaudhuri
New Findings about Ramakrishna’s First Disciples
—translated from the French
by Swami Yogeshananda
Recent Meetings with Yogeshanandaji
—recollections
by Rita Mathew and Bhagirath Majmudar
A Brief History of Vedanta in Brazil
by Luiz Antonio Souto Monteiro
The Legend of Shiwido
—an introduction
by Sofia Puerta
The Vedanta Society of Southern California: Past, Present and Future
by Karl Whitmarsh
Christopher Isherwood and the Monastery, Part 2
by Anna Monday
Vedanta In and Beyond the College Classroom
by Barbara Brown Taylor
The Great Correction
—a song about transformation
by Eliza Gilkyson
Poems
by Nilotpal Sanyal, Barefoot Justine and Br. Shankara
The Healing Journey of Vedanta
—a meditation
by Sister Judith Thackray
Girish, the Divine Drunkard
—a thought experiment
by Bill Davis
A Mountain Sutra
—an instruction
by Bill Page
The Mighty Metaphor
—a hologram in prose and verse
by Russell Atkinson
Yoga for Sale
—putting the postures in their place
by Uma Majmudar
Letter to John Doe
—a crash course
by Br. Shankara
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