Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston

10/16/2026

Just released! Available for immediate download ... Swami Tyagananda brings together Swami Vivekananda’s inspiring insights on the study and practice of bhakti yoga—the path of loving God and discovering God’s love for us.
Written in an engaging, conversational style, this book offers a practical and illuminating guide to the path of devotion. It explores the essential practices of prayer, worship, meditation, and japa (repetition of mantra), showing how they come together in the comprehensive discipline of navavidhā bhakti, the ninefold path of devotion.
The endnotes guide readers to Vivekananda’s own eloquent and inspiring words in his Complete Works, inviting them to explore his teachings firsthand. Both a practical guide to spiritual life and an illuminating commentary on Vivekananda’s teachings, this book encourages readers to deepen their devotion and discover the transformative power of love.

Loving the Beloved: A Bhakti Yoga Manual (Practical Yoga Manuals)

10/16/2026

DURGA PUJA on Sunday at 10:30 https://conta.cc/4ytLwvF

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10/15/2026

TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE

Let us open ourselves to the one Divine Actor, and let Him act, and do nothing ourselves.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 26, 1895. Complete Works, 7. 14.

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10/14/2026

TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE

We find the story of the deluge in every religion. That story itself is a proof that this present age is held to be a corruption of a former age. It went on becoming more and more corrupt until the deluge swept away a large portion of mankind, and again the ascending series began. It is going up slowly again to reach once more the early state of purity. You are all aware of the story of the deluge in the Bible. Similar stories were current among the ancient Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Hindus.

Jnana Yoga: “The Real Nature of Man” (London, June 21, 1896). Complete Works, 2. 72-73.

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10/13/2026

TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE

Only a few in a century attain to the love of God, and the whole country becomes blessed and hallowed. When a son of God appears, a whole country becomes blessed. It is true that only a few such are born in any one century in the whole world, but all should strive to attain that love of God. Who knows but you or I may be the next to attain? Let us struggle therefore.

Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: The First Steps (New York: December 16, 1895). Complete Works, 4. 16.

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10/12/2026

A few pictures from the recent Centenary Celebration of the Vedanta Society in Portland, OR.

10/09/2026

SUNDAY 11 AM: "The Story of Durga" by Swami Tyagananda. All are welcome! https://conta.cc/4rYCjKf

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10/07/2026

TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self. All great geniuses know this.

Retreat given at the Thousand Island Park, USA. June 26, 1895. Complete Works, 7. 14.

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10/06/2026

TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE

Worship God with bhakti tempered by jnana. Keep the spirit of discrimination (viveka) along with bhakti. Learn from Sri Chaitanya his heart, his loving kindness to all beings, his burning passion for God, and make his renunciation the ideal of your life.

Conversation: Saturday, January 24, 1898. Recorded in Bengali by Surendra Nath Sen in his private diary. Complete Works, 5. 347.

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10/05/2026

TODAY’S VIVEKANANDA QUOTE

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment, universality. Whether I live or die, whether I go back to India or not, remember this specially, that universality--perfect acceptance, not tolerance only--we preach and perform.

Letter to Swami Ramakrishnananda. Written in Bengali from Chicago on March 19, 1894. Complete Works, 6.285. This is Swamiji’s second letter to his brother disciples, after the Parliament of Religions in September 1893.

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