Vedanta Society Santa Barbara

NPR asked Pico Iyer and Vrajaprana to have a conversation on Empathy, which they wanted to air BEFORE the US election! It's now on podcast form here: https://www.kcrw.com//h/pico-iyer-interview-election-rage

Labor Day weekend greetings. Stay cool and stay safe! #vedanta #vedantalife #yogasantabarbara #santabarbaracounty

No fire threat here but definitely in No California. Pray for California!#vedanta #vedantalife #santabarbaracounty

Vedanta temple garden and yes temple is still closed.... #vedanta

And here's the Zoom link to Sunday's 11:00 am lecture on "Krishna and Us" with Pravrajika Vrajaprana: Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633009667 Meeting ID: 826 3300 9667 Passcode: Krishna

Here's the link for today's 5pm Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna reading: Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/678830603 Meeting ID: 678 830 603 Password: 2xTyyx

There will be a Zoom lecture on "Krishna and Us" by Pravrajika Vrajaprana this Sunday, August 2nd. Here's the Zoom link: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82633009667

Tomorrow afternoon we will have a Zoom class on the Gospel of Holy Mother with Swami Sarvadevananda Maharaj. Please feel free to join us at 4:30 pm PDT! Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85622293052... Meeting ID: 856 2229 3052 Password: 354749

Tomorrow morning at the Santa Barbara temple, Sunday, July 5, at 11:00 am, Pravrajika Vrajaprana will give the spiritual talk "Belief, Faith, and Experience," which will be available on zoom. (Link, Meeting ID: 842 0105 9194 Password: 958853)

Happy Guru Purnima day on July 5th! A blessed and sacred day to remember the guru who brought us to the feet of the Lord.

Happy 4th of July! We celebrate the innate freedom of the soul on this glorious day. Swami Vivekananda was freed from his body on this day that he loved so muchsee his poem on the Fourth of July below. And many of you know that the founder of our Vedanta Society of Southern California, Swami Prabhavananda, also chose to leave his body on this day. Enjoy this inspiring day, remembering that spiritually and socially much has to be done to attain the freedom we all seek. Behol...d, the dark clouds melt away, That gathered thick at night, and hung So like a gloomy pall above the earth! Before thy magic touch, the world Awakes. The birds in chorus sing. The flowers raise their star-like crowns Dew-set, and wave thee welcome fair. The lakes are opening wide in love Their hundred thousand lotus-eyes To welcome thee, with all their depth. All hail to thee, thou Lord of Light! A welcome new to thee, today, O Sun! Today thou sheddest Liberty! Bethink thee how the world did wait, And search for thee, through time and clime. Some gave up home and love of friends, And went in quest of thee, self-banished, Through dreary oceans, through primeval forests, Each step a struggle for their life or death; Then came the day when work bore fruit, And worship, love, and sacrifice, Fulfilled, accepted, and complete. Then thou, propitious, rose to shed The light of Freedom on mankind. Move on, O Lord, in thy resistless path! Till thy high noon o’erspreads the world. Till every land reflects thy light, Till men and women, with uplifted head, Behold their shackles broken, and Know, in springing joy, their life renewed!

Happy July 4 weekend! #vedanta

Sun came out! Temple is still closed, bookstore open this weekend ONLY on Friday, July 3rd. #vedantalife #vedantasociety #vedantasocietyofsoutherncalifornia #hindutemple #santabarbaracounty