Sunday Spiritual Talks
Sunday 10.40 am to 12 noon Talk on YouTube from 11 am
Includes Silent Meditation
Most of us know life’s a matter of taking the rough with the smooth. We struggle with the grinding challenges, revel in periods of vivid happiness and seek a course of steady sailing in-between. A delicate balance.
Through our Spiritual talks we aim to firm up that steady balance we all seek. We aim to build your inner resources, to give you greater clarity, resilience, calmness and joy, enriching your life’s journey.
We present Spirituality in a practical, rational way, highlighting the universal and mystical teachings of the World’s Religions.
Program includes spiritual music, meditation and discussion. Talks given by Pravrajika Gayatriprana or Pravrajika Sridharaprana, senior nuns of Sri Sarada Math of the Ramakrishna Order. All welcome, no charge.
Conducted on Sundays 10.40 am to 12 noon and available on YouTube from 11 am.
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna – Monthly Talk
Sunday 10.40 am to 12 noon Talk on YouTube from 11 am
Includes Silent Meditation
Talks given by Pravrajika Gayatriprana, drawing on the book: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the conversations of the 19th-century mystic, yogi and promoter of interfaith understanding.
These conversations record the meetings between Sri Ramakrishna and the creative, brilliant, questioning minds of Calcutta. In Sri Ramakrishna, they came face-to-face with a type of Spirituality and mystical states they had only read about.
In our monthly talks, we delve into these meetings, full of the deepest wisdom, the sweetest devotion, teasing banter, laughter and song and profound spiritual experiences.
The conversations were translated from Bengali by Swami Nikhilananda whose literary skills were refined with the help of Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson. The book, edited by Joseph Campbell, also features a foreword by Aldous Huxley.
“One of the world’s most extraordinary documents.” – Time Magazine
Raja Yoga – Monthly Talk
Sunday 10.40 am to 12 noon Talk on YouTube from 11 am
Includes Silent Meditation
The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation formulated over 2,000 years ago, teaching us how to control our mind and achieve inner peace and freedom.
Program: Meditation, Talk on Raja Yoga by Pravrajika Gayatriprana, Discussion, and Q&A facilitated by Dr.Dilip Dutta.
Spiritual Evening
Discussion & Silent Meditation
Fortnightly on Fridays
7.00 to 8.45 pm
Or Via Zoom from 7.30 pm
Join us at Vedanta Hall for Silent Meditation from 7 pm or via Zoom for the discussion from 7.30 pm.
A peaceful and reflective way to end the working week featuring spiritual readings from the world’s faiths and thinkers followed by discussion led by Pravrajika Gayatriprana
Bhagavad Gita Discussion & Silent Meditation
Meditation
Fortnightly on Fridays
7.00 to 8.45 pm
Or Via Zoom from 7.30 pm
Join us at Vedanta Hall for Silent Meditation from 7 pm or via Zoom for the discussion from 7.30 pm.
Led by Pravrajika Gayatriprana, join our exploration of a spiritual classic that’s enriched cultures throughout Asia over the centuries and inspired leading figures in modern times from Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, and Aldous Huxley to astronaut Sunita Williams who took a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to the international space station.
We’re dipping into Swami Ranganathananda’s 3 volume commentary: Universal Message of the Bhagavad Gita. The late President of the Ramakrishna Order, the Swami was a world thinker and cultural ambassador for India, sponsored by the Government to travel to over 50 countries around the world giving lectures.
Vedanta Book Club
Third Sunday of the month at Vedanta Hall: 3.30 – 6 pm
Last Wednesday of the month via Zoom: 7.30 – 8.45 pm
The monthly Book Club meeting taps into books with Vedanta and other spiritually themed anthologies – short articles and stories – to provide varied themes for the discussion led by Pravrajika Gayatriprana.
Living Wisdom: Vedanta in the West will provide material for discussion over the coming months. We’ll continue our discussion of the article What is Vedanta? by the famed writer and Vedanta devotee, Christopher Isherwood.
To join the Vedanta Book Club Group please email us: admin.saradavedanta@bigpond.com. You’ll be emailed with an invitation to join the discussion via Zoom and a scanned copy of the article.