NEW YORK (RNS) — The Vedanta Society of New York is easy to miss. The center of worship, housed in a plain-old brownstone on the Upper West Side, has hosted dozens of monks, lamas and other ...

Among a sea of devotees and seers converging at Maha Kumbh, the story of another IITian is making headlines. An IIT-BHU ...

Vedanta philosophy first arrived in northern California in February of 1900 with Swami Vivekananda, the great disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. He lived and taught like his master, as did later […] ...

It’s more a science of living than a narrow set of religious principles. The wisdom of Vedanta applies to a person whether he believes it or not. Not having this knowledge is like going onto a highway ...

including Vedanta, have come to permeate their culture, particularly their popular culture: movies, music, and so on. As religion scholar Vasudha Narayanan has noted: ‘Americans may not know it ...

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