Con­struc­tion of the Vedanta Center’s new tem­ple has finally begun. The tem­ple will reflect the archi­tec­ture of the Rama­kri­shna Tem­ple at Belur Math. Devo­tees and Vedanta stu­dents may also pur­chase new town­houses and single-family homes to be built next door. More…

Arise, Awake! Ded­i­cated to “One’s own lib­er­a­tion and the wel­fare of the world,” the Vedanta Cen­ter of Greater Wash­ing­ton, DC is a branch of the Rama­kri­shna Order of India. Though founded in 1997, its roots draw from Swami Vivekananda’s vis­its to the USA in the 1890s, and from the immemo­r­ial wis­dom of the Upan­ishadic sages. (more…)

Vedanta: A phi­los­o­phy, a reli­gion, a way of life. “I am the Self of the uni­verse, I am eter­nally blessed, eter­nally free”—this is the mes­sage of Vedanta. (more…)

Activ­i­ties: (Down­load Cur­rent Month Sched­ule)
• Pub­lic lec­tures on Sun­days at 11:00 am
• Scrip­ture classes on Wednes­day and Fri­day evenings at 8:00 pm
• Evening wor­ship (Arati) daily at 6:30 pm (more…)

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Food Drive: We are accept­ing dona­tions of non-perishable food items, in con­junc­tion with Manna Food Cen­ter, for an unex­pect­edly large increase in need. (more…)

“Each soul is poten­tially divine. The goal is to man­i­fest this Divin­ity within, by con­trol­ling nature, exter­nal and inter­nal. Do this either by work, or wor­ship, or psy­chic con­trol, or philosophy—by one or more or all of these—and be free. This is the whole of reli­gion. Doc­trines, or dog­mas, or rit­u­als, or books, or tem­ples, or forms, are but sec­ondary details.”

—Swami Vivek­a­nanda