The Path of ActionCelebrating Swami Vivekandanda

Gayatri Mantra: The Hymn of the UniverseAum Bhoor Bhuvah Swaha

Tat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo Devasya DheemahiDhiyo yo nah prachodayatMay the worlds bearwitness to my prayerThat adorable light on which the enlightened meditate

May That illumine my intellect

The Life of Swami VivekanandaAjay Kshatriya

The life of Narendranath Datta

Unity of all Existence

What is Unity?As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

What is Unity?All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

PrabhujiMore Avagun Indian Graduate Students Dance Group

O Lord, Look not upon my evil qualitiesThy name O Lord is Same SightednessSee in us both the same Brahman (Higher Self)

One piece of iron is in the image in the templeAnd another is the knife in the hands of a butcherBut the philosophers stone knows not these distinctions, Both alike turn to gold

One drop of water is in the sacred YamunaAnother is found in the ditch by the roadsideBut when they finally meet and flow as one stream into the GangesBoth alike become holy

Prabhuji more avagun chit na dharoSamdarsi hai naam tihaaro, chaaho to paar karo

Ik loha pooja mein raakhat, ik ghar vyadhik paro

Sau duvidha paaras nahi jaanat, kanchan karat kharo

Ik nadiya ik naar kahaavat, main lohi neer bhayoJab mili dono ek baran bhai, sur sari naam paroThy Name is Same Sightedness

Realize this UnityEach soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details."

The Path of Action (Karma Yoga)You only control your action and not the results.

So be not motivated by results; nor be attached to inaction.

Bhagvad Gita, 2:47

The Path of Action (Karma Yoga)Joyful Being

Swami Vivekanandas thoughts on Social Reform Lauren Bausch

Vyadha Gita The Butchers Song

Introducing Interfaith Dialogue

Introducing Interfaith DialogueGod is the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof.

Introducing Interfaith DialogueThe idea that one man is born superior to another has no meaning in Vedanta (Hindu philosophy). Never judge the customs of other people by your own standards.

Introducing Interfaith DialogueWho has given you the right to say that truth exists nowhere else but in the Vedas (the ancient books of the Hindus)?

Introducing Interfaith DialogueWhy should I tolerate? Toleration means that you are wrong and I am just allowing you

Selfless Action in the Bah' Faith James ThreattStanford Bah' Association

Breaking Out of The Lesser Self: Selfless Dedication to OthersMorghan Velez YoungWorld Peace Buddhists

The Hymn of Self-Awareness

Nahee Shurjo, Nahee Jyoti, Nahee Shashanka Shundara

Bhaashey Brahmey Chaaya Shamo, Chobi Bissho Charaa Charo

Ashfuto Mono Akaashey, Jagato Sangshaaro Bhaashey

Oothey Bhaashey, Dobey Punoh Aham Shatey Nirantaro

Dheerey Dheerey Chaaya Dolo, Mahalaye Probeshilo

Bohey Dhaara Aamee, Aamee, Eyee Dhaara Onushkhon

Sheyee Dharaao Boddho Holo, Shunno Shunney Milaaeelo

Obang Mono Shogo Charam, Bojhey Praano Bojhey JaaroLo! The sun is not, Nor light,Nor the comely moon, In the great void of space, Floats shadow-like the image Universe.

In the void of mind involute, There floats the fleeting Universe,

Rises and floats, Sinks again, ceaseless, in the current "I"

Slowly, slowly, the shadow-multitude, Entered the primal womb,

And flowed, ceaseless, The only current, the "I am", "I am".

It is stopped, ev'n that current flows no more, Void merged into void

Beyond speech and mind, Whose heart understands, he verily does

Selfless ActionSalman LatifIslamic Society of Stanford University

Detached "Good Works"Douglas MacKinnonDevotee of Christ

The Song of the Karma YogiTriparna Bhattacharya

Aaji pronamey tomare cholibo, natho songsaro kaje

Tumi amar noyone noyon rekho, ontoro majhe

Hridoyo debota royecho prane, mono jeno taha niyoto jane,

Paaper chinta more jeno dohi duhsoho laje Sobo kolorobe sara dinoman, suni onadi songeetogan

Sobaro songe jeno obiroto tomaro songo raje

Nimeshe nimeshe noyone bochone, sokol korme, sokol monone

Sokol hridoy tontre jeno mongol bajeO Higher Self, today I surrender the lower Self to you as I proceed to act

May you place your eyes in mineJust as you reside in my heart

O God of my heart May my mind always know your presence

May every thought of sin Burn in the flame of shame

In the ceaseless din of the world, I hear the sacred music all the time

Be you with me When I be with others

In every blink of the eye,In every action and thought

In every part of my heartMay the sacred music play.

The Legacy of Swami VivekanandaSwami VedanandaVedanta Society of San Francisco

Vote of ThanksPriyanka Sharma & Somik RahaThe Hindu Students Council

Closing PrayerSarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha

Sarve Santu Niraamaya

Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu

Maa Kaschit Dukhabhaag bhavet

AUM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTIHIMay ALL behappy May ALL be free from Disease May ALL see things auspicious Many NONE be subjected to misery Peace, Peace, PeaceBe unto us all

Family was affluent, philanthropic, and educated. Dad was lawyer, diverse study of English and Persian literature, Islamic and Biblical culture. Agnostic and independent. Mom was traditional Hindu womanhood. Strong sense of service, memorized slokas from the Mahabharata and Ramayana. Naren was playful, restless, and energetic. Loved pets and very good in school. Story of light before sleep.Serious academics, western logic, and Indian shortcomings. Bramo Samaj, progressive movement founded in Bengal, focusing on spiritual Hinduism.Have you seen God? Showed him! Poor, humble, studied all major religions, and Realized. Tough struggle with Naren, but Ramakrishnas love won him over (story of their parting and then hearing the singing). Challenged his intellect, reason, logic. Studied western philosophy and science. Naren has deep, natural spiritual abilities and a natural leader in the monastery. Wandering throughout India after Masters death. Traveled all thru north India land of Vedas and Upanishads, and the culture from foreign cultures and how India absorbed them. Traveled to Himalayas to tap deep truths of Hindu scriptures. Went through South India met famous kings and dignitaries. Realized the downfall of India in the religious fanaticism and classism and the beauty of her acceptance of diversity.Mediated on rock at tip of India and thought deeply about his purpose in life. Go to America and bring the spiritual wisdom of India. In return, receive her technology and science to help IndiaParliament of religions where he was the first representative of India in the west. ------In the beginning was the Word.

The microcosm and macrocosm are built on the same plane. Just as the individual soul is encased in a living body, so in the Universal Soul, in the living prakriti in the objective universe.

Kali is embracing Siva, this is not fancy. The covering of one (soul) by the other (nature) is analogous to the relation between idea and life and the word expressing it. They are one and the same, and it is only by a mental abstraction that one can distinguish them.

Thought is impossible without words. Therefore, in the beginning was the Word.

The dual aspect of the Universal Soul is eternal. So what we perceive or feel is the combination of the eternally formed and the eternally formless.