Vedanta and Holy Mother

Swami Swahananda, a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order is the Minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He was initiated in 1937 by Swami Vijnananda, one of Sri Ramakrishna's direct monastic disciples. he joined the ramakrishna Order in 1947 and received sannyasa in 1956. After joining the Order, he served in Ramakrishna math, madras and later, as editor of the order's English journal, the 'Vedanta Kesari'. He was the head of the Ramakrishna Mission centre in new Delhi. He came to the United states in 1968 as the Assistant Minister of the San Francisco Vedanta society and was later appointed head of the Vedanta Society of Berkeley, California. the swami gives lectures regularly at the Vedanta branch centeres in southern California. He also lectures in many places throughout North America.

Swami Swahananda is the author of many books and articles on religious life and spirituality including 'meditation and other spiritual Disciplines ', Hindu Symbology and Other Essays', and 'Services and Spirituality.

This Book, “Vedanta, Holy Mother, Ideas and disciplines’, has been compiled mostly from published articles in journals and books. These are a collection of self contained articles and not a planned book. Those who are interested in a particular topic and not its entire philosophy or background may find these separate treatments more useful. These topics had been dealt with separately as lectures, essays, television talks and University lectures. There will be repetitions of ideas and language. They have often been retained for the sake of clarity and completeness of the topic. The articles on Holy Mother had been written for periodicals, needing shorter ones. They will still be useful in this way. But they have been put in a continuous form. Some freedom has been taken in removing too many capitals of familiar Sanskrit words, and even appellations of God, and quotation marks.

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