Vedanta Society, Berkeley, USA

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Vedanta Society Berkeley

Vedanta Society of Berkeley, USA

2455 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, California 94704, USA
☎ 1-510-8488862
✉ [email protected]
🌐︎ www.berkeleyvedanta.org

Sub-Centre(s)

San Jose House of Vedanta Society Berkeley
1376 Mariposa Avenue, San Jose, California 95126, USA
☎ 1-408-493-0665

The centre was started in 1939 and is located near the University of California, Berkeley. It is an affiliate of the Ramakrishna Math, and Swami Prasannatmananda is its Minister-in-charge.
Activities:

  1. A library with 2800 books, and a bookstore.

  2. Regular worship, meditation, and counselling to spiritual seekers.

  3. Regular Sunday services and weekly scriptural classes.

  4. Spiritual discourses, retreats, and meditation workshops.

  5. Celebration of the birthdays of the Holy Trio and other religious festivals.

  6. A yearly retreat at Olema in Marin County on 4th July, and a spiritual retreat at Camp Taylor, where Swami Vivekananda had stayed in 1900.

Activities of the sub-centre at San Jose:

  1. A reference library and a bookstore.

  2. Weekly meditation sessions, spiritual readings, and scriptural classes.

  3. Monthly Ramnam Sankirtan.

  4. Celebration of Ramanavami, and worship of Mother Kali.

  5. Welfare activities: Distribution of food and Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature.

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Shrine
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Alter in the San Hose center