“Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”
Welcome to the Vedanta Center of Atlanta
We study Hinduism and Vedanta as taught by Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, and Swami Brahmananda. Classes, talks, worship, meditation, fellowship, and special events throughout the year. All are welcome.
Thanks for visiting with us.
There is a lot to look at, listen to, and discover about Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Vedanta and this Center. Yet, if you don’t find what you came for, click here to contact Br. Shankara, our Resident Minister.
Remembering Swami Yogeshanandaji
A collection of fond memories of our beloved Swami Y in photos and words, shared by devotees and friends.
This Week
Sunday @ 11am
~ Join us via Zoom ~
Join us via Zoom this Sunday morning, May 16, from 11am-noon for your Center’s ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONGREGATION.
May is a month for study of Bhakti Yoga. A bhakti yogi (bhakta) has a devotional relationship with God . This is developed over time by study, prayer, ritual, and worship. As a bhakta, you practice giving every action, thought, emotion, perception and tendency “a Godward turn.” Everything you are, both positive and negative, is offered to the Divine Presence.
Your prayer is for the carefree self-surrender of a child in its Mother or Father’s arms and, finally, union with your Belovèd. In that state, no barrier of ego remains — the devotee becomes one with the Divine Presence in all-embracing love.
“O Thou who stealest the hearts of Thy devotees, do with me what Thou wilt, for Thou art my heart’s belovèd, Thou and Thou alone.”
— from Chaitanya’s Prayer
A Few Announcements
Please mark your calendar for this — our first face-to-face meeting as a congregation will be on Sunday, July 4th. We should all be fully vaccinated by then.
There will be TWO Seva Saturdays in June: the 19th and the 26th, to get your Center — outside and inside — ready to receive our congregation in style. For these two days and the 4th, those members who have been fully vaccinated will be welcome.
LAST Week
Last Week's Talk
KARMA YOGIS needed
Seva means serving in the fellowship of volunteers, or Karma Yogis!
One Saturday per month (typically the Second Saturday, but confirm on our Calendar), please join fellow devotees and volunteers who help revitalize the Vedanta Center and keep the premises beautiful.
To all karma yogis considering Seva Saturday:
Seva Saturday begins at 10am and goes until 2pm. We break for lunch for an hour around 12:30pm (delicious vegetarian lunch provided). If you are unable to join us for the full four hours, please come and spend as much time as you can. We always have plenty of jobs indoors and outdoors for all ages and abilities!
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RECOMMENDED READING
Click book covers for details about these and other recommended books.
These books are available in our Bookshop, at Vedanta.com, and elsewhere online.
Sri Ramakrishna
“Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’. The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.”
