Compiled by Swami Yogeshananda On the day after Sri Ramakrishna died, “Golap Ma told us (the monastic disciples) that the Master had appeared to Holy Mother in a vision and had forbidden her to remove her bracelets. He said, ‘Have I gone to another place? Here I am. I have just passed from one room to another.’”
In Memoriam Swami Amohananda passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 3:00 AM on April 3, 2011. He would have been 100 on May 12.
By Br. Shankara Having celebrated the Lord’s omnipotence, liberality, and compassion, Chaitanya now speaks for the first time in the voice of the devotee. In three stunning lines the aspirant confesses…
According to Pillai Lokacharya (1264-1327 CE), a renowned teacher of the Srivaishnava tradition of South India, the Lord manifests four special qualities to help devotees take refuge in Him. These are: affection (vatsalya); lordliness, or ownership (svamitva); friendship, or affability (saushilya); and accessibility (saulabhya).
On November 30th, 1962, Christopher Isherwood spent several turbulent hours at the bedside of actor Charles Laughton, his friend and neighbor, who was dying slowly of cancer. Laughton himself was uncharacteristically at peace; it was Isherwood who fought noisily with his own mind, tormented by his own egotistical ramblings, unsure of how to pray or to whom.
At sundown,
when the great, green
pines have grown…
Excerpt from a dramatic reading written by Bill Davis and John Schlenck for the New York Vedanta Society’s Vivekananda Festival at Ridgely on July 4, 2010.
Swami Brahmananda (Rakhal); Maharaj; The Central Teaching of Bhagavad Gita; Introduced to Swami Vivekananda; “Cross Country” friend is an inspiration; Chaitanya’s Prayer: A Perfect Primer; Nitya Chaitanya passes away in Hollywood at age 80; Vedantists Meet in Albuquerque …
I followed the path down to the old garden
Where flowers at play awaited my coming;
I anointed them with water, then all of a sudden…
