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This is the official and authorized website of the Vishwa Dharma Mandalam which is a religious mission dedicated to the teaching and preaching of the Sanatana-dharma religion. It is an orthodox Hindu church and a recognized nonprofit religious organization, founded by Swami Ramakrishnananda under the inspiration of His Divine Grace Bhagavan Mastarama Babaji Maharaja, and the blessings of His Divine Grace Baba Brahmananda Maharaja of Rishikesa and His Divine Grace Narahari dasa Babaji Maharaja of Vrindavana. The purpose of the mission is to preserve and spread the message of the ancient Sanatana-dharma religion, or Hinduism according to the innovative vision of Swami Ramakrishnananda, the Vishwa Dharma, and his teachings about yoga, Hinduism, meditation, and enlightenment. The institution has the respect, affection, recognition and broad support from the Hindu community in the United States. Under the direction and with the blessing of our spiritual master, the members of the mission are dedicated to establishing yoga centers, hindu temples, monasteries, yoga retreats, and ashrams around the world. |
Swami Ramakrishnananda undertook the construction of the Radhe-Shyam Temple to be a center for the religious functions and a home for the community of devotees. The Radhe-Shyam temple is a fully functioning Hindu temple in Manhattan, located in the East Village, in the heart of New York City. The mandir holds the altars for Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, Lord Hanuman, Mother Durga, Mother Lakshmi, Mother Saraswati and Mother Kali, and a separate temple for Sri Sri Radhe-Shyam, the temple's main deities. With an authoritative installation ceremony led by several brahmanas, the temple was officially inaugurated. Ever since, puja ceremonies have been conducted every day for all the devas, or aspects of the Divine. The ceremonies are conducted by personal disciples of Swami Ramakrishnananda, and other qualified brahmanas. The temple hosts a program for each of the important Hindu holidays, such as Diwali, Shivaratri, Holi, Janmastami, and Radhastami, in which an abhisheka ceremony is performed, followed by kirtan, a lecture or a Vedic arts performance. |
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Meditation: Go Deep Into The Moment
Posted: March 10, 2010 
Introductory talk and Meditation Guidance given by Gurudev at our last meditation workshop.  Lecture: Observing the ConflictPosted: March 4, 2010  "...Whenever there is division, there is conflict, but not only that, there is time, and time is conflict... what is, what was, and what should be. This kind of time is thought, and we are thoughts, and so - we are time..." Given on March 3, 2010 Puja: Lord Ganesh and the GuruPosted: March 4, 2010  "...Lord Ganesha is he who removes the obstacles, in order to reach our real nature. What are these obstacles? Where do they exist? What can be an obstacle for enlightenment? These obstacles are not so far away from us... the concepts about ourselves... we are all those things..." Given on February 28, 2010 Lecture: The SearchPosted: March 1, 2010  "What we search for when we say we search for truth? and we expect that someone or some day will show us - this is the truth, this is God. so that now I can add to my warehouse of knowledge a new thing, a new idea, a new concept, a new experience that was never before... we need to examine the searching itself, and this searching can be another activity from the past..." Lecture: The Origin of ActionPosted: February 27, 2010 
"We need to go step by step to understand the chain of knowledge - desire - action... what is the origin of every action, what is the source of action... the source of all action is knowledge..." Lecture: You are not the Thoughts but They Are You Posted: February 26, 2010  Spanish Lecture, with English subtitles. "The main question, or at least one of the most important questions for every religious person, lets say, for every seeker... seeker of what? I would say, for all dreamers of freedom... for everyone who dreams of freedom or yearns for freedom... for all who live with the yearning for freedom... the main question is, if freedom is possible?" |
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