Religious-Spiritual
The Vedanta Kesari
Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan For Swachh Bharath
A Journey from a Campaign to a Revolution!
10+ min |
November 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
An Ancient Vedic Institution
This section presents less known but enlightening nuggets of information about our ancient culture as revealed in our temples, images, symbols, and inscriptions.
2 min |
November 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
125 Th Anniversary Of Chicago Addresses : Concluding Programme
For the last 12 months, the branch centers of the Ramakrishna Order the world over celebrated the 125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s historic Addresses at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, USA.
6 min |
November 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
An Important Educational Centre Of The Chola Times
This section presents less known and enlightening nuggets of information about our ancient culture as revealed in our temples, images, symbols, and inscriptions.
2 min |
October 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Singing To The Divine: The Sopana Sangeetham Of Kerala
This article throws light on the indigenous Sopana music offered as part of ritual tantric pooja in the temples of Kerala and how art has been considered a path to the Divine in the Indian tradition.
10+ min |
October 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Pariprasna
Srimat Swami Tapasyananda Ji (1904 – 1991), was one of the Vice-Presidents of the Ramakrishna Order. His deeply convincing answers to devotees’ questions raised in spiritual retreats and in personal letters have been published in book form as Spiritual Quest: Questions & Answers. Pariprasna is a selection from this book.
3 min |
October 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
The Ghost In The Tree
A fictional narrative based on incidents from the childhood of Swami Vivekananda.
3 min |
September 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
The Defining Moment In Swami Vivekananda's Monastic Life
The article presents Swami Vivekananda’s meditation at Kanyakumari as his ‘moment of enlightenment’ when his thoughts on the reasons for the downfall of India and the course of its revival took a definite shape.
10+ min |
September 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Realising Spirit As Spirit
Religion is the realisation of Spirit as Spirit; not Spirit as matter.1We already saw in the Jan 2019 issue how Swamiji describes religion as realization.
4 min |
September 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Ancient Centre Of Learning At Bahur
This section presents less known and enlightening nuggets of information about our ancient culture as revealed in our temples, images, symbols, and inscriptions.
2 min |
September 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Pariprasna
Q & A with Srimat Swami Tapasyanandaji Maharaj (1904 to 1991), Vice President of the Ramakrishna Order.
7 min |
August 2018
The Vedanta Kesari
Nivedita's English: Journey Into The Divine
We will concentrate now on Kali the Mother, because it shows a bizarre and astonishing combination of narrative methods, something that Nivedita hardly did either before or after. Published in 1900 this small, handy volume is nevertheless a procession of paintings. Words, employed like colours on canvas, reminding one of Lily Brescoe’s painting in Virginia Woolf’s acclaimed work To the Lighthouse, suggest a variety of moods and emotional intensity.
10+ min |
August 2018
The Vedanta Kesari
Pariprasna
Q & A with Srimat Swami Tapasyanandaji Maharaj (1904 to 1991), Vice President of the Ramakrishna Order.
4 min |
July 2018
The Vedanta Kesari
Reminiscences Of Sargachhi
Swami Premeshananda (1884–1967) was a disciple of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi. For over two decades, he lived at Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Sargachhi, first as its monastic-in-charge and later as a retired sannyasi. He inspired countless people to lead a life of spirituality and service. Influenced by him many young men and women entered into monastic life. His conversations and teachings were noted by his attendant novitiate who is now Swami Suhitananda, one of the Vice-Presidents of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. Published in Bengali as Sargachhir Smriti, these reminiscences have been translated into English by Sri Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee.
5 min |
July 2018
The Vedanta Kesari
Have You Got ‘The Seven Jars'?
Modern work environment has evolved from the ideas of a few, very influential, modern thinkers.
4 min |
August 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
The Thirst For God Is Religion
What is Religion?
8 min |
May 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Heritage Heroes
Zig-zagging at 9500’ above sea level in the Himalayas, unmindful of fatigue through forested, narrow paths that climbed and descended, we were suddenly pelted with hailstones.
4 min |
September 2018
The Vedanta Kesari
Reminiscences Of Sargachhi
Conversations with Swami Premeshananda (1884-1967) a disciple of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi.
5 min |
January 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Pariprasna
Q & A with Srimat Swami Tapasyananda (1904 to 1991), Vice-President of the Ramakrishna Order.
5 min |
January 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
The Illustration Of The Snake
The Vedantin likes to give the illustration of the snake and the rope.
2 min |
May 2018
The Vedanta Kesari
Religion: Being True To Your Own Nature
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.1This is a pretty simple, straight-forward statement. Being true to our own nature is the greatest religion that is or can ever be. That is it. End of story. While this is really simple, this is also, by far, the grandest statement that Swamiji has uttered on religion. Why? Let us see presently.
4 min |
August 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Lyrics In Terracotta – Ratneshwar Temple Of Bhattamati
A study of temples in Bengal of the late medieval period is an interesting chapter in history of Indian art and architecture.
4 min |
July 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Religion Is Common Sense
Religion is a common-sense, everyday thing.
3 min |
July 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Sant Tukaram
The most popular of all the Maharashtrian devotional saints is undoubtedly Sant Tukaram (1608?- 1650).
10+ min |
July 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Just Read The Gospel
Once Swami Brahmananda, one of the foremost disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, was visiting a remote place in Bengal. While he was waiting for a train at a station, among those who came to see him off was a young devotee and his sister.
10+ min |
March 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Pariprasna
Q & A with Srimat Swami Tapasyananda (1904 to 1991), Vice-President of the Ramakrishna Order.
4 min |
March 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
A Message To Garcia
Advertise for a stenographer, and nine out of ten who apply, can neither spell nor punctuate- and do not think it necessary to. Can such a one write a letter to Garcia?
3 min |
March 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Reminiscences Of Sargachhi
Conversations with Swami Premeshananda (1884-1967) a disciple of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi.
4 min |
March 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Swami Vivekananda's Visit To Shillong
Poet Rabindranath Tagore immortalized the picturesque, misty landscape of Shillong in his novel Shesher Kabita, written around 1928- 29; he was there earlier in 1919 for three weeks and then again in 1923 for about two months.
10+ min |
April 2019
The Vedanta Kesari
Pariprasna
Q & A with Srimat Swami Tapasyananda (1904 to 1991), Vice-President of the Ramakrishna Order.
5 min |