Guest guest Posted January 26, 2001 Report Share Posted January 26, 2001 Dear List members Let me share my experience with you. Today has been a very fruitful day for me. I was asked to do two assemblies at a school called 'St James'. This school is a Christian school in London with some very unusual characteristics. It teaches Vedantic ideals and Sanskrit is made compulsory for all children. The school has expanded and now they have branches in New York, Leeds, Dublin, Holland and Australia (and one recent addition at Varanasi!). They are trying to put across 'Advaitic philosophy'. Even though I have been in touch with the school for a very long time, they were a bit worried about inviting me to speak as they thought that 'Shankara's advaita and Vivekananda's advaita are perhaps not the same. Well this morning I had the opportunity to blow away these cobwebs. The topic that I chose to speak on was 'Science and Spirituality'. They are now keen to reinvite me to develop other themes like 'ideas of evolution from the Vedic teachings' I had very good reception from the Head, the students and teachers. This is not unusual - I just have to serve up a 'tiny' bit of Vivekananda and that is enough to ignite such gatherings. : ) jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 - " EDTipple " <edtipple " Vivekananda Centre " <vivekananda Wednesday, January 31, 2001 04:46 Re: Assemblies > Dear Jay, > > In case you don't get my Digest message, why, -- as you say -- as a > matter of principle, do these people not visit the Bourne End center? > Might they think an Indian-based group is more narrow than they envisage > Shankara/Ramakrishna?... This is very interesting... > Edith Dear Edith The reason these people do not mix with other groups is as mentioned by Swami Yogeshananda (who had come across this group when he was based in London) his email copy enclosed. " Thank you, Jay, for this very complete explanation. Now that the connection has been made, between the schools and the School of Economic Science, I understand it all. The School was a phenomenon in London in my time there. We knew about it very well; figured that they needed to maintain their non-afilliated, " non-religious " status, and therefore would not mix with us. Nevertheless, some persons commuted between the two. London is fortunate to have had Mr. McLaren's work. Namaste, Yogeshananda " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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