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:

  • 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.
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Shrine
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Alter in the San Hose center