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Hello Eeveryone !

 

Swami Yogeshananda Hari Om!

 

RE:

 

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Message: 10

Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:33:41 -0500

" Mahesh Lad " <mlad

Re: Ramkrishna Mission-math address in USA

 

Namaste to everybody and wish you all a nice day.

I need to know if there is closet Ramakrishan Mission or math or

Vedanta

Centre close to where I live. I'm planning to take my children and

spend

couple of nights.

I live in Madison, Indiana which is 50 miles east of Louisville -

Kentucky,

100 miles south of Indianapolis - Indiana, 80 miles west of

Cincinnati

-

Ohio.

My thanks to evrybody, if any body would able to provide me

information

on

this.

mahesh lad, madison indiana 07/20/99

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Namaste Mahesh,

 

Here is a site, maintained by the Vedanta Society of Southern California @ URL

 

http://www.vedanta.org/cent/index.html

 

Just click on the map, anywhere in the world, and the info comes up.

 

om shanthi om

 

Tom

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SteveS.

 

I once had what I believe was an inner contact with Swami Vivekananda.

I was

 

going through an extremely difficult time, when I was continually

so weak

I

could hardly work and get through the day. Once, taking a break, I

felt

his

presence and the thought, " Keep on, brother! " (not in words, just

the

essence

of it).

 

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Namaste Steve,

 

I beleive that we are continuously absorbing. When we have assimilated,

by reading or hearing the words of Sri Swami Vivekananda,

we may draw, at will, from this storehouse of memory. In other words, we have

'internalized'

that portion of Swamiji. We no longer see him as outside ourselves, but rather

an intrinsic

part of our very being.

 

At a young age, having been brought up in a devout family, the words of another

Personage, were absorbed. Whenever I start to slip from the 'Ideal',

in my relationships with other embodied souls, the resonant words, of my late

father, come

through loud and clear: " Remember, Tom, the words of Our Saviour:

'Love one another, as I have loved you' "

 

So, where is my late father ? Where is Sri Swami Vivekananda ? A portion of each

dwells within me. They have become a part of my 'super ego' [acquired social

experience].

 

Here is an interesting quote from Sri Swami Vivekananda, concerning

reincarnation:

 

{inspired talks August 1, 1895]

 

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There are endless series of manifestations, like " merry-go-rounds, " in which the

souls

ride, so to speak. The series are eternal; individual souls get out, but the

events

repeat themselves eternally and that is how one's past and future can be read,

because all is

really present. When the soul is in a certain chain, it has to go through the

experiences of

that chain. From one series souls go to other series; from some series they

escape for ever

by realising that they are Brahman. By getting hold of one prominent event in a

chain and

holding on to it, the whole chain can be dragged in and read. This power is

easily acquired,

but it is of no real value and to practise it takes just so much from our

spiritual forces.

Go not after these things. Worship God.

 

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om shanthi om,

 

Tom

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