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SERVICES
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Swami Yuktatmananda conducts services on Sundays, Tuesdays, and
Fridays. A brief description of the services are as follows:
- Sunday Services
- On Sunday mornings at 11:00 A.M.,
Swami Yuktatmananda conducts the
service and lectures on spiritual topics of practical importance. Some of these topics
are: The Ways of Human Mind, Spiritual Transformation, The Message of Self-Knowledge,
Vedanta and the Contemporary Religious Ferment, The True Spiritual Awakening, Guidelines
for Mature Living, Action and Meditation, Harmony of Religions, The Problem of Suffering,
Christ and His Message, Buddha and His Way, and others. To learn more about this
month's activities and services, please click here.
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- Weekday Classes
- On Tuesday evenings at 8:00 P.M.,
Swami Yuktatmananda conducts a
class on The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, and on Friday evenings at 8:00 P.M., a
class on the scriptures of Vedanta: The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga
Aphorisms of Patanjali, The Crest Jewel of Discrimination, The Works of Swami Vivekananda,
The Teachings of the Direct Disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, Narada Bhakti Sutras, Uddhava
Gita: The Last Message of Sri Krishna, and others.
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- Special Services
- The Center holds special services each year on the occasions of
Sri Ramakrishna's Birthday, Holy Mother's Birthday, Swami Vivekananda's Birthday, Buddha's
Birthday, Sri Sri Durga Puja, Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter. As part of these special
services, the Choir of the Center performs traditional hymns and songs, both Western and
Eastern. All the services and classes of the Center are free and open to the public.
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- Special Lectures and Seminars
- Swami Yuktatmananda arranges special lectures and seminars at the
Center for groups of students from colleges, universities, and other organizations who
wish to visit the Center and learn more about its teachings. On special occasions, Swamis
from other centers, spiritual leaders of different faiths, community leaders, and
academicians are invited by Swami Yuktatmananda to speak at the Center.
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- Library & Bookstall
- The Center maintains a Library and a Bookstall for the benefit of
the members and the public. The Library is regularly used by members and friends of the
Center, and contains a large number of books and periodicals on Vedanta and other
philosophical and religious systems of the world. The Bookstall provides a valuable
resource for Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature, and books on Vedanta and other religious
traditions. In addition, photographs and incense may be purchased here.
Vivekananda Cottage at Thousand Island
Park
The Center also maintains the
Vivekananda Cottage, a summer cottage at Thousand Island Park, New York,
in which Swami Vivekananda lived and taught for eight weeks in the
summer of 1895. The teachings given at Thousand Island Park by Swami
Vivekananda form part of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda and are
published by our Center as
Inspired Talks.
The Vivekananda Cottage is
located about 360 miles from New York City, near the Canadian border on
Wellesley Island on the St. Lawrence River. It is generally available
during the months of July and August as a place of pilgrimage for
devotees who wish to visit. For more information about the Vivekananda
Cottage, please visit the following links:
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- Copyright© 1996, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center
of New York.
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