A Brief History of Vedanta in Brazil

by Luiz Antonio Souto Monteiro “… Swamiji (Siami Vivekananda) had a vision in which the banner of Sri Thakur (Ramakrishna) was being stuck on the peak of the Andes Mountains …” — M. (Mahendranath Gupta, who wrote “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”) EARLY DAYS In 1911,...

Recent Meetings with Yogeshanandaji

by Rita Mathew and Bhagirath Majmudar Visiting Swami Y by Rita Bhandarkar-Mathew, Athens GA Rita and Swami Yogeshanandaji Like iron filings drawn to a magnet, that’s how much I wanted to meet Swami Yogeshananda, affectionately called Swami Y by those close to...

New Findings about Ramakrishna’s First Disciples

by Swami Yogeshananda New discoveries can be made in various ways: old libraries can turn them up.  This was proven recently when a member of the Ramakrishna Monastery (Vedanta Society of Southern California) in Trabuco Canyon, California, brought to me a slim...

Was Swami Vivekananda a Pragmatist—a la William James?

by Asim Chaudhuri Introduction William James When Swami Vivekananda arrived in the U.S. in 1893, “Pragmatism” was then emerging as America’s first major contribution to philosophy, with Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) as its standard flag bearer, William James...

Spring 2020 – Issue 76

He’s got the whole world in His hands … Well, 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...

Summer 2019 – Issue 75

Perhaps you noticed we haven’t been heard from in awhile. Two editions were missed: Fall-Winter 2018-19 and Spring 2019. The reason is as simple and as complicated as this: We had a breakdown. Yet, as a wise old grandfather used to tell us kids, “Never complain, never...

Mourning in a Rose Garden

A Very Short Non-fiction (as Possible) Short Story by Anna Monday Bare-handed, I was puttering in the rose garden one morning when I saw a really large locust-type plant-eating unit of pestilence on one of my beloved roses. Recently, one had…in a single...

Holy Envy: Finding God In The Faith Of Others

Book Review HOLY ENVY: FINDING GOD IN THE FAITH OF OTHERS. (2019). BY BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR. NEW YORK, NY: HARPERONE. The following by Michael Gellert consists of selections from a larger, forthcoming review that will appear in Psychological...

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