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Vedanta Society of Southern California

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The Vedanta Society of Southern California, with its headquarters in Hollywood, was founded in 1930 by Swami Prabhavananda. [1]

19 relations: Archive, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Meditation, Pasadena, California, Piñon Hills, California, Portland, Oregon, Puja (Hinduism), Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna Math, San Diego, Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple, South Pasadena, California, Swami Prabhavananda, Swami Swahananda, Swami Vivekananda, Trabuco Canyon, California, Vedanta, Vedanta Press.

Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Meditation

Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Piñon Hills, California

Piñon Hills is a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, near the Los Angeles County line.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Puja (Hinduism)

Pūjā or Poojan or Poosei (Thamizh) (Devanagari: पूजा) is a prayer ritual performed by Hindus of devotional worship to one or more deities, or to host and honor a guest, or one to spiritually celebrate an event.

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Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna Paramahansa; 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886),http://belurmath.org/kids_section/birth-of-sri-ramakrishna/ born Gadadhar Chatterjee or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th century. Ramakrishna was given to spiritual ecstacies from a young age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the goddess Kali, Tantra, Vaishnava bhakti, and Advaita Vedanta. Reverence and admiration for him amongst Bengali elites led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda. His devotees look upon him as an incarnation or Avatara of the formless Supreme Brahman while some devotees see him as an avatara of Vishnu.

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Ramakrishna Math

Ramakrishna Math is a religious monastic order, considered part of the Hindu reform movements.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple

Built and dedicated in 1956, the Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple is located on a 45-acre property situated between the foothills above the City of Santa Barbara, and below the peaks of the Santa Ynez Mountains.

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South Pasadena, California

South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Swami Prabhavananda

Swami Prabhavananda (December 26, 1893 – July 4, 1976) was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher.

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Swami Swahananda

Swami Swahananda (29 June 1921 – 19 October 2012) was a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, and the minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of Southern California from 1976 to 2012.

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

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Trabuco Canyon, California

Trabuco Canyon is a small unincorporated community located in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains in eastern Orange County, California, and lies partly within the Cleveland National Forest.

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Vedanta

Vedanta (Sanskrit: वेदान्त, IAST) or Uttara Mīmāṃsā is one of the six orthodox (''āstika'') schools of Hindu philosophy.

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Vedanta Press

Vedanta Press is the publishing wing of the Vedanta Society of Southern California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta_Society_of_Southern_California

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