Sunday November 17 7 - 8:30 pm
Jeff Fiore will participate in the Interfaith Discussion.
LV Vedanta Center
10732 Balsam Creek Ave
LV, NV 89144
310-800-5186
November
Nov 17th 7:00 pm
Jeff has been invited to represent Hinduism at the Interfaith Forum on Sunday, November 17th, at 7:00pm.
The Event will take place at the
Holy Spirit Catholic Church
located at 5830 S Mesa Park Dr. LV, NV 89135.
If any devotees would like to attend, they are very warmly welcome.
See the flyer above with full information on the event.
We hope to see some of you at the event!
November 22nd - 24th
We welcome Swami Chandrashekharanada to the Las Vegas Vedanta Center the weekend of November 22nd-24th to give a live weekend Retreat! The schedule for the weekend will be as follows:
Friday November 22nd
6:00pm
Arati -- Bhajans -- Satsanga -- Prasad
This is a time to get to know more about Maharaj's personal life story as well as ask all those questions you have been wondering about!
Saturday November 23rd
4:00pm
Arati -- Bhajans
Maharaj's Class on the Bagivad Gita (Part 1)
Prasad
Sunday November 24th
4:00pm
Arati -- Bhajans
Maharaj's Class on the Bagivad Gita (Part 2)
Prasad
We look forward to seeing many of you at the last weekend Retreat of the year.
For those unable to attend in person, the links to the live streams on YouTube are included below. See you soon!
https://youtube.com/live/g7nrvzre2gQ?feature=share
Swami Chandrashekharananda's Live Satsanga
This live Satsanga is given at the Las Vegas Vedanta Center and will follow Aarti and the singing of Bhajans.
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LV Vedanta Center
10732 Balsam Creek Ave
LV, NV 89144
310-800-5186
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Most of the lectures and classes that are scheduled for the Vedanta Society in Hollywood are being streamed live and are available on the Vedanta You-Tube channel. Simply go to Vedanta.org and click on the live stream button to access both the live streaming and previous events.
Thanking you all and stay healthy
By thinking day and night of God one acquires the nature of God.
God will certainly reveal himself to you if you pray to him with sincerity.
Sri Ramakrishna
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and the subsequent development of quantum mechanics led to a revolution in physics—and he took this notion of revolution quite seriously.
Prof. Steven Gimbel
According to Kuhn, there is never a good reason to move from one paradigm to another—indeed, there could never be because the very concept of good reason requires rationality which only exists within the paradigm.
Quotes from the Isha Upanishad:
Worlds there are without suns, covered up with darkness. To these after death go the ignorant, slayers of the Self.
The Self is one. Unmoving, it moves swifter than thought. The senses do not overtake it, for always it goes before. Remaining still, it outstrips all that run.
Without the Self, there is no life. To the ignorant the Self appears to move‑yet it moves not. From the ignorant it is far distant yet it is near. It is within all, and it is without all.
He who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, hates none.
To the illumined soul, the Self is all. For him who sees everywhere oneness, how can there be delusion or grief?
'They who worship both the body and the spirit, by the body overcome death, and by the spirit achieve immortality.'
Isha Upanishad
What is within us is also without. What is without is also within. He who sees difference between what is within and what is without goes evermore from death to death. By the purified mind alone is the indivisible Brahman to be attained. Brahman alone is‑nothing else is. He who sees the manifold universe, and not the one reality, goes evermore from death to death.
Katha Upanishad
If a man fails to attain Brahman before he casts off his body, he must again put on a body in the world of created things
Katha Upanishad
The mortal in whose heart's desire is dead becomes immortal. The mortal in whose heart the knots of ignorance are untied becomes immortal.
Katha Upanishad
Quotes from the Eternal Companion, teachings of Swami Brahmananda:
These are the different stages through which the aspirant progresses. It is of vital importance that a man begins his spiritual journey from where he is. If an average man is instructed to meditate on his union with the absolute Brahman, he will not understand. He will neither grasp the truth of it nor be able to follow the instructions. For a while he may try, but sooner or later he will tire of the struggle and give up.
However, if that same man is asked to worship God with flowers, incense, and other accessories of the ritualistic worship, his mind will gradually become concentrated on God, and he will find joy in his worship. Through such worship, devotion to the performance of Japa grows. The finer the mind becomes, the greater is its capacity for the higher forms of worship. Through Japa the mind inclines toward meditation, thus the aspirant gradually and naturally moves toward his Ideal. (Et. Comp. p. 185)
The body is the temple of God, and one should practice worship and meditation within it.
Though temples may serve as aids to the beginner, they are but symbols of God's greatest of all temples, the human heart. (Et. Comp. p. 190)
Puja means both external ritualistic worship and mental worship. In ritualistic worship certain accessories are necessary. These are sometimes difficult to procure; therefore, the mental worship is more convenient for you. First worship the Chosen Ideal mentally with flowers, incense, etc., and then practice meditation and mental Japa.
From the Prasna Upanishad:
"Holy sir, how many several powers hold together this body? Which of them are most manifest in it? And which is the greatest?" "The powers," replied the sage, "are ether, air, fire, water, earth ‑ these being the five elements which compose the body, and, besides these, speech, mind, eye, ear, and the rest of the sense organs. Once these powers made the boastful assertion: 'We hold the body together and support it,' where ‑ upon Prana, the primal energy, supreme over them all, said to them: 'Do not deceive yourselves. It is I alone, dividing myself fivefold, who hold together this body and support it.' But they would not believe him.
BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD
Who is that Self?
Yagnavalkya
The self‑luminous being who dwells within the lotus of the heart, surrounded by the senses and sense organs, and who is the light of the intellect, is that Self. Becoming identified with the intellect, he moves to and fro, through birth and death, between this world and the next. Becoming identified with the intellect, the Self appears to be thinking, appears to be moving. While the mind is dreaming, the Self also appears to be dreaming, and seems to be beyond the next world as well as this.
When man, the individual soul, is born, and assumes relationship with the body and sense organs, he becomes associated with the evils of the world. When at death he gives up the body, he leaves all evils behind.
KAIVALYA UPANISHADS
Seat yourself on a clean spot and in erect posture, with the head and neck in a straight line. Be indifferent to the world. Control all the sense organs. Bow down in devotion to your Guru. Then enter the lotus of the heart and there meditate on the presence of Brahman - the pure, the infinite, the blissful. Unmanifest to the senses, beyond all thought, infinite in form, is God. He is the doer of all good; he is forever tranquil; he is immortal. He is One, without beginning, middle, or end; he is all-pervading. He is infinite wisdom, and he is bliss.
Below are some audio tracks.
Topic: Mantra, Japa, and OM
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Swami Sumanasanadaji's Live Satsang at the Las Vegas Vedanta Center
Swami Sumanasanadaji's Class Titled, "The Light of Asia"https://youtube.com/live/y3s88_er8Ss?feature=shareWe will honor Ma Durga at the Las Vegas Vedanta Center with a special Puja and chanting. We will begin on Saturday, October 12th at 3:00pm. All are warmly welcome!
Jai Ma Durga!
LV Vedanta Center
10732 Balsam Creek Ave
LV, NV 89144
310-800-5186
https://youtube.com/live/tFOnQlgH9Vk?feature=share
Durga Puja
We will honor Ma Durga with a Puja and Chanting. All are welcome!
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Find more audio tracks from the Oratorios on the home page.
How Beautiful the Flowers,
Click the arrow above to hear a Vocal work by Swami Atmavidyananda sung by Ananda of San Diego.
Click on Arrow above to hear Choral work by by Swami Atmavidyananda
Click above to hear an organ Chorale Prelude on the Bhajan Yuga Avatar
Click below to hear the slow movement of the symphony #1 - based on Apadam.
Click below to hear the slow movement of the symphony #1 - based on Apadam.