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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Swami Satyamayananda joined the Vedanta Society of Southern California as Assistant Minister in December of 2018. He became a member of the Ramakrishna Order at Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata in 1988. An initiated disciple of Swami Bhuteshananda (the twelfth president...
by Esther Warkov The second edition of Remembering Sri Sarada Devi’s Disciple: Swami Aseshananda As We Knew Him is now available to read online. This new edition includes reminiscences collected after the publication of the book, which was published in 2010. The...
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...
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...
