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Vedanta Society of Toronto
120 Emmett Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6M 2E6, Canada
Phone: 1-416-240-7262; Fax: 1-416-245-3764; E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.vedantatoronto.ca
This centre was started in 1968 and made a branch of Ramakrishna Math in 1989. Swami Kripamayananda is its minister-in-charge.
Activities:
- Daily meditation and evening service, bhajans, Sunday lectures and weekly religious classes.
- Lectures at various cities in Canada and USA.
- Interviews with students and spiritual seekers.
- A library with a reading room and a book showroom.
- Annual retreat for devotees, an annual seminar and annual public speaking competition for school students.
- Bi-monthly Sunday school for children.
- Celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Krishna, Buddha and Christ, as well as some other religious festivals.
- Community involvement through celebration of International Yoga Day and Senior’s Day.
- A vigil, consisting of japa and meditation and the singing of Ramnam, once a month.
- Publication of a bi-monthly newsletter-Vivekananda Review.
- Welfare work by distributing food to the homeless and needy.
