VEDANTA SOCIETIES

By providing access to ways that suit individual temperaments, the Vedanta Societies endeavor to stimulate each person’s innate spirituality.  The occult, the bizarre, or the sensational have no place in Vedanta.

Naturally, the Societies do not promise instant illumination. God-realization can take a lifetime, if not many lifetimes. But without doubt illumination will occur in the end, for even if we are deeply asleep, which most of us are over many incarnations, we will awake eventually.

Vedanta Societies are worldwide.  Here in the U.S., they are located in Berkeley, California, Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, Ganges Township, Michigan, Hollywood, California, Houston, Texas, Kansas City, Kansas, New York, New York, Phoenix, Arizona, Portland, Oregon, Providence, Rhode Island, Sacramento, California, San Francisco, California, Santa Barbara, California, St. Louis, Missouri, St. Petersburg, Florida, Stone Ridge, New York. Washington, D.C.

The Vedanta Society of New York was the first Vedanta Society in the U.S.  It was founded by Swami Vivekananda in November 1894. The Societies are guided by monks who serve as ministers.  Their websites are a great resource for books, articles, devotional music, prayer chanting, and recorded lectures.