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Opening Hours
- Monday -
- Tuesday 17:45 - 19:00
- Wednesday 19:15 - 20:15
- Thursday -
- Friday -
- Saturday 17:45 - 19:00
- Sunday 10:30 - 12:30
Description
The Society's programs include a Sunday Satsang (11 AM), Wednesday study group (7:30 PM), and Tue/Sat meditation hours (6 PM). There are also programs held on MIT and Harvard campuses. In addition, Swami Tyagananda gives spiritual guidance and meditation instruction on request. Appointments must be made in advance via email or phone.
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25 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
We should always try to see the duty of others through their own eyes, and never judge the customs of other peoples by our own standard. I am not the standard of the universe. I have to accommodate myself to the world, and not the world to me.
Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1. 66.
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24 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
Love never denounces, only ambition does that. There is no such thing as “righteous” anger or justifiable killing.
Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.22.
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23 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
We do not or cannot see the painful parts in objects, we are charmed with only the pleasurable portion; and, thus grasping the pleasurable, we unwittingly draw in the painful.
From notes discovered among Swami Vivekananda’s papers. He evidently intended to write a book and jotted down these points for the work. Complete Works, 5. 428.
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22 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
The highest evolution is when the veil of differentiation is torn off. The highest creed is Oneness. I am so-and-so is a limited idea, not true of the real “I”. I am the universal. Stand upon that truth and always worship God through the highest form, for God is spirit and should be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
From a lecture on “What Is Religion?”. Complete Works, 1. 341.
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21 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
Think always, “I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Like ordinary people, can I ever be fooled with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth?” Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.
Conversations recorded in Bengali. From the diary of Sarat Chandra Chakravarty. Complete Works, 5. 394.
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20 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
It is our duty to do that work which will exalt and ennoble us in accordance with the ideals and activities of the society in which we are born. But it must be particularly remembered that the same ideals and activities do not prevail in all societies and countries. Our ignorance of this is the main cause of much of the hatred of one nation towards another.
Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1. 64.
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19 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
A hundred thousand men and women, fired with the zeal of holiness, fortified with eternal faith in the Lord, and nerved to lion’s courage by their sympathy for the poor and the fallen and the downtrodden, will go over the length and the breadth of the land, preaching the gospel of salvation, the gospel of help, the gospel of social raising-up—the gospel of equality.
Letter, August 1893. Complete Works, 5.15.
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18 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
The wind of God’s grace is blowing on, for ever and ever. You must spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, “I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss--what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and One who is beyond these is me.”
Conversations recorded in Bengali. From the diary of Sarat Chandra Chakravarty. Complete Works, 5. 394.
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17 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
Violent attempts at reform always end by retarding reform. Do not say, “You are bad.” Say only, “You are good, but be better.”
Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7.22.
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16 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
Starvation, cold, hooting in the streets on account of my quaint dress, these are what I have to fight against. But, my dear boy, no great things were ever done without great labor.
Letter, August 1893. Complete Works, 5. 12.
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15 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
When we feel oneness with everything, we shall be immortal. We are even physically immortal when we are one with the universe. So long as there is even one who breathes throughout the universe, I live in that one. I am not this limited little being. I am the life of all the sons of the past. I am the soul of the Buddha, of Jesus, of Mohammed. I am the soul of the teachers, and I am all the robbers that robbed, and all the murderers that were hanged, I am the universal. Stand up then; this is the highest worship. You are one with the universe. That is true humility--not crawling upon all fours and calling yourself a sinner.
From a lecture on “What Is Religion?”. Complete Works, 1. 341.
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13 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
There is only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: “Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin.”
Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1. 64.
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12 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
The result of Buddha’s constant inveighing against a personal God was the introduction of images into India. In the Vedas they knew them not, because they saw God everywhere, but the reaction against the loss of God as Creator and Friend was to make images, and Buddha became an image--so too with Jesus. The range of images is from wood and stone to Jesus and Buddha.
Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 30, 1895. Complete Works, 7. 21-22.
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11 March 2019
TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE
Jñāna Yoga is divided into three parts. First: hearing the truth--that the Ātman is the only reality and that everything else is māyā. Second: reasoning upon this philosophy from all points of view. Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from (1) being certain that Brahman is real and everything else is unreal; (2) giving up all desire for enjoyment; (3) controlling the senses and the mind; (4) intense desire to be free. Meditating on the reality always and reminding oneself of its real nature are the only ways in this yoga. It is the highest but most difficult. Many persons get an intellectual grasp of it, but very few attain realization.
Written during Swamiji’s first visit to America, in response to questions put by a Western disciple. Complete Works, 8. 154-155.
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11 March 2019
Thakur Puja 2019
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