Sunday morning service at The Vedanta Center of St. Petersburg is held in the Chapel at 11:00 AM. All are welcome.
The Center is continuing with our Monday evening chanting class. The class will be held in Mother’s House – 176, 19th Avenue SE, St. Petersburg, at 7:00 PM.
We are also continuing with our Wednesday evening scripture class. This class will be held in the Chapel at 7:00 PM. The scripture class will be on studying the Bhagavat Gita and the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna on the last Wednesday of the month. The Sunday morning service and the Wednesday scripture class shall also be made available live via Zoom platform.
All classes are given by Swami Ishtananda except mentioned otherwise.
Sunday Lectures – 11:00 A.M.
| June 7 God Belongs to Us, Here and Now |
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June 14 Attention is the New Spiritual Discipline By Guest Speaker Sw. Ishadhyanananda, Vedanta Society of Sacramento, CA |
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June 21 God Has an Obligation |
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June 28 Simple Faith |
SPECIAL EVENT
Swami Ishadhyanananda, Asst. Minister, Vedanta Society of Sacramento, CA visits our Center from Saturday June 13th to Monday 15th. He shall be our Guest Speaker on Sunday June 14th.
Swami Ishadhyanananda has been an Assistant Minister of the Vedanta Society of Sacramento since August 2017. Before coming to America, the swami served the Order at the Jamshedpur branch of the Ramakrishna Mission from for about 4 years. Prior to that, he was posted at the Belur Math Headquarters Office from 2008 to 2013.
Swami Ishadhyanananda joined the Ramakrishna Order in 2002. He was initiated by Swami Atmasthananda, the fifteenth president of the Ramakrishna Order, and received his final monastic vows from his guru in 2012. Before joining the Order, during his college and university days, Swami Ishadhyanananda remained in close contact with the monks of the Ramakrishna Order.
Throughout his monastic life, Swami Ishadhyanananda has contributed articles to various journals of the Ramakrishna Order. Beyond his devotion to Ramakrishna-Vedanta literature, Swami Ishadhyanananda harbors a passionate interest in philosophy, transpersonal psychology, contemplative neuroscience, and contemporary ideas shaping our world today. He finds particular fascination in topics that bridge ancient wisdom with modern understanding.
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Monday evening chanting class
June 8, 22
Class suspended on June 15
The class will be held in Mother’s House – 176, 19th Avenue SE, St. Petersburg, at 7:00 P.M.
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Wednesday Evening Scripture Class
June 3, 10 – Bhagavat Gita
Class suspended on June 17
June 24 – Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
This class will be held in the Chapel at 7:00 PM.
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The Center’s regular activities shall remain suspended after services on Sunday 28th during summer months of July and
August. Regular services shall resume with Sunday 13th, 2026
Inspirational Thoughts
The Self—the Atman—is by Its own nature pure. It is the same, the one Existence of the universe that is reflecting Itself from the lowest worm to the highest and most perfect being The whole of this universe is one Unity, one Existence, physically, mentally, morally and spiritually. We are looking upon this one Existence in different forms and creating all these images upon it.
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Relative knowledge is good, because it leads to absolute knowledge; but neither the knowledge of the senses, nor of the mind, nor even of the Vedas is true, since they are all within the realm of relative knowledge. First get rid of the delusion “I am the body,” then only can we want real knowledge. Man’s knowledge is only a higher degree of brute knowledge.
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Each 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 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.
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Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power and activity, has its seat.
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All the teachers of humanity are unselfish. Suppose Jesus of Nazareth was teaching, and a man came and told him, “What you teach is beautiful. I believe that it is the way to perfection, and I am ready to follow it; but I do not care to worship you as the only begotten Son of God.” What would be the answer of Jesus of Nazareth? “Very well, brother, follow the ideal and advance in your own way. I do not care whether you give me the credit for the teaching or not. I am not a shopkeeper. I do not trade in religion. I only teach truth, and truth is nobody’s property. Nobody can patent truth. Truth is God Himself.”
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–Swami Vivekananda