Vedanta Society of Berkeley, USA
2455 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, California 94704, USA
1-510-8488862
1-510-8454583
[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:
- A library with 2800 books, and a bookstore.
- Regular worship, meditation, and counselling to spiritual seekers.
- Regular Sunday services and weekly scriptural classes.
- Spiritual discourses and retreats, and meditation workshops.
- Celebration of the birthdays of the Holy Trio and major religious festivals.
- 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:
- A reference library and a bookstore.
- Weekly meditation sessions, spiritual readings, and scriptural classes.
- Monthly Ramnam Sankirtan.
- Celebration of Ramanavami, and worship of Mother Kali.
- Welfare activities: Distribution of food and Ramakrishna- Vivekananda literature.
