Activities

Weekly Activ­i­ties

  • Sun­day lec­tures at 11 a.m.
  • Wednes­day evening scrip­ture and med­i­ta­tion class. The cur­rent text is the Mundaka Upan­ishad. 8–8:50, read­ing and dis­cus­sion; 8:50–9, meditation.
  • Fri­day evening scrip­ture class, 8–9 pm. Texts, by turn, are the Gospel of Sri Rama­kri­shna, the Bha­gavad Gita, and the Gospel of the Holy Mother.
  • Karma Yoga on Sat­ur­day morn­ings, from 9 to 1.

Hours

  • Daily from 4 to 8 p.m.
  • Sat­ur­day & Sun­day also from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (see Karma Yoga).
  • Sun­day lec­tures at 11 a.m.
  • Closed on Monday.

Evening Wor­ship or Arati

  • Daily 6:30 p.m., fol­lowed by silent meditation.

Monthly

  • Ram Nam, singing the names of Sri Rama, on (usu­ally) the first Sat­ur­day night of the month. 7:30 pm. Fol­lowed by pot-luck supper.
  • Youth group meet­ing, one Sat­ur­day afternoon.

Occa­sional

  • Sat­sang every night at 8 o’clock, when senior monks are vis­it­ing the center.

Cel­e­bra­tions

  • New Year’s Day: Kalpataru Day cel­e­bra­tion, the day on which Sri Rama­kri­shna blessed his dis­ci­ples with illumination.
  • Birth­day of Swami Vivekananda
  • Birth­day of Sri Ramakrishna
  • Ram Navami, the Center’s foun­da­tion day
  • Fourth of July celebration
  • Durga Puja
  • Kali Puja
  • Birth­day of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
  • Christ­mas Eve
  • New Year’s Eve

Inter­views

Pri­vate meet­ings with a res­i­dent swami or one of the vis­it­ing swamis may be sched­uled either by phone or in person.

Social Ser­vice

Some cen­ter mem­bers par­tic­i­pate in social ser­vice, or seva activ­i­ties, with Shepherd’s Table and Meals on Wheels. Please con­tact the cen­ter for more information.

Annual Retreat

The cen­ter con­ducts an annual retreat over the Labor Day Week­end every year.