Chicago Vedanta Society

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--- Jill Eggers <eggersj wrote:

 

 

Dear Jill,

Namaste! Thank you for your lovely welcome.

And thank you for the lovely description of the

Chicago Vedanta Society building and location. It is

a special place, because of its association with

Ramakrisha's famous disciple, Swami Vivekanada, and

his first visits to America. There is a powerful

spiritual atmosphere there!

 

And oh yes! The Hindu comic books are wonderful

reading. All the children (big and small) enjoy them.

 

May Mother Sarada continue to bless you with her quiet

peace--to know her presence is also very special.

 

You will have to pardon my extravagance; I have

several wonderful mothers--among the most beloved are

MamaRamana and Mother Sarada.

 

donadagovi (until we meet again),

 

Sister Judith,

rainbowbird~

tisisqua unvgoladv

 

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> Hello Sister Judith,

>

> I am a little late in welcoming you here, but I have

> been enjoying your

> presence and your posts. In 1992 when I first read

> Christopher

> Isherwood's book on Ramakrishna, I became quite in

> love with

> Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekenanda.

> For years I kept a

> picture of Sarada Devi on my desk as a guide, during

> the early years of

> my experience of kundalini awakening, and sometimes

> had dreams of her.

> She is such a lovely peaceful presence.

>

> For anyone who gets to Chicago, the Vedanta society

> there is located in

> Hyde Park on the south side of the city, in a lovely

> old brick building

> near the University of Chicago. It is a wonderful

> place to visit.

> There is a chapel with an altar filled with images

> and icons of many

> gods and saints of many faiths, and a little

> bookstore in the outer

> rooms on the first floor with lots of books on

> Ramakrishna and Sarada

> Devi, lots of translations of the Gita and many

> other goodies,

> including the finest comic book collection of the

> Mahabarata I have

> seen anywhere!

>

> Love,

>

> Jill

>

>

> On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Sister Judith

> Thackray-OSAh wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > --- Harsha wrote: 

> >

> > Dear Harsha,

> > Osiyo! (Hello!)

> > It is a delight to sit with all of you here in

> this

> > circle--this current post of yours

> Harsha--Ramana's

> > words:  "the full consciousness". . ."the all

> > pervading reality"--"being non different in all

> the

> > principles and being other than the sense "I am

> the

> > body"-- are the kind of words that changed by

> entire

> > life in my earlier years.  It only took that one

> book

> > by Paul Brunton, The Secret Path, I think it was

> > called, and Sri Ramana had my entire devotion

> forever.

> >

> > I then took initiation in the Sarada-Ramakrishna

> > lineage with Swami Bhashyananda of the Chicago

> Vedanta

> > Center; he was a visiting lecturer at my college

> in

> > Canada.

> >

> > I am now a member of the Interfaith Contemplative

> > Order of Sarada in America (OSA), whose

> interfaith

> > outreach is called the Contemplative Vedanta

> Support

> > Network (CVSN). I live spiritual life as a

> > Contemplative Vedantist, a Hermit of Sarada.

> > I do a lot of work with persons who are following

> an

> > interfaith sadhana. As a

> Cherokee-Christian-Vedantist,

> > I seem to have been born to be interfaith!

> >

> > Saying hello and wado! (thanks!) from 8200' high

> in

> > the Rockies west of Boulder, Colorado~

> >

> > With love in Bhagavan,

> > Sister Judith,

> > rainbowbird~

> > tsisqua unvgoladv

> >

> > Eastern Cherokee

> >

> > _________

> >

> > > The full consciousness [purna chit] which is

> not

> > > other than the true

> > > import of the word "I", being non different in

> all

> > > the principles

> > > [tattvas] and being other than the sense 'I am

> the

> > > body' is the all

> > > pervading reality.

> > >

> > > (From the Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi -

> > > Translation of Devikalotra)

> > >

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> > > "Love itself is the actual form of God."

> > >

> > > Sri Ramana

> > >

> > > In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri

> Nagamma

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