Growth of Vedanta in the West

[Guest guest]

Greetings:

 

The following passage is from John Yale's (Swami Vidyatananda) " The Making of a

Devotee " (published: 1993). I thought it might provoke some interesting

discussion on whether Vedanta and/or the Ramakrishna Movement is growing in the

West. If not, why - - and, what could/should be done?

 

" A faithful Vedantist living in New York wrote me recently: " The centers here

do not seem to be thriving, although Indians seem to abound. I responded to a

letter from Y just last week in which he was reporting the same trend in

Chicago. Vedanta does not seem to be attracting American newcomers... "

 

Jai Ramakrishna!

Brad

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

In the U.S.A., presently there are about 2.3 million

Indians. There are fairly big Hindu Temples inmost

major cities that attract thousands of people. Sai

Baba Mission, Chinmaya Mission, Dayananda Saraswathi

mission,Internatinal Society for Krishna

Consciousnesss etc. are thriving very well. A lot of

Hinduism -related activities such as seminars,

workshops on scriptures, worship, prayer, meditation,

special celebrations, etc. are going on here and the

activities are conducted in a large scale. There are

summer camps to learn Hinduism both for adults and

children. Many of us are very busy with these

activities. What I have noticed here is that

Ramakrishna Mission keeps a low profile and most of

the peope I know dont even know about its existence in

the USA. If they come out and do a little publicity,

people will understand abut the mission.

 

--- Brad Stephan <brad wrote:

> Greetings:

>

> The following passage is from John Yale's (Swami

> Vidyatananda) " The Making of a Devotee " (published:

> 1993). I thought it might provoke some interesting

> discussion on whether Vedanta and/or the Ramakrishna

> Movement is growing in the West. If not, why - -

> and, what could/should be done?

>

> " A faithful Vedantist living in New York wrote me

> recently: " The centers here do not seem to be

> thriving, although Indians seem to abound. I

> responded to a letter from Y just last week in which

> he was reporting the same trend in Chicago. Vedanta

> does not seem to be attracting American

> newcomers... "

>

> Jai Ramakrishna!

> Brad

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

 

 

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