PROGRAM
NOTES
                                               FEBRUARY 2010

Special Programs

Friday, February 12: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

   Shiva Ratri. Worship of Shiva through chanting and songs,   flower offering, and contemplation.
                     Video: Pilgrimage to Amarnath's ice lingam shrine.

Regular Services: MOST SUNDAYS, 10:30 a.m. to noon.
   Meditation; program on a spiritual topic; refreshments.

      February 7: “Thoughts on the Bhagavad Gita” Part 43 -- Swami Chetanananda (video).

      February 14: “Bhava, Darshan, and Samadhi” -- Swami Chetanananda (video).


      February 21: Program in honor of the birth anniversary of Sri Ramakrishna.
                              10:30-10:50: Meditation in the shrine.
                        10:50-Noon: Program: “The Master: How He Taught Devotees.”
                              12:00-12:30: Prasad and Refreshments.

     February 28: “The Voice of Silence” -- Swami Chetanananda (video).


      “Ramakrishna's message to mankind is: Be spiritual and realize truth for yourself. He would have you
       give up for the sake of your fellow beings. He would have you cease talking about love for your
       brother, and set to work to prove your words. The time has come for renunciation, for realization;
       and then you will see the harmony in all the religions of the world. You will know there is no need
       of any quarrel. And only then will you be ready to help humanity. To proclaim and make clear the
       fundamental unity underlying all religions was the mission of my Master. Other teachers have taught
       special religions which bear their names, but this great teacher made no claim for himself. He left
       every religion undisturbed because he had realized that in reality they are all part and parcel of the
       one eternal religion.”

                                                      -- Swami Vivekananda, “My Master”
                                                             February 1896, November 1896



                                                                   MARCH 2010

SPECIAL PROGRAMS
   Friday, March 26:   6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
      Mini-Retreat conducted by Swami Chetanananda
         6:30 – Guided meditation and chanting
         7:30 – Class on Vivekananda's Bhakti Yoga (Bring text to class)
         8:30 – Buffet supper served

                For reservations, call or email by Sunday, March 21.
                           816-444-8045 or info@vedantakc.org

Saturday, March 27:  10:30 a.m. to Noon
         Swami Chetanananda will speak on:
                              “They Walked with God”


REGULAR SERVICES – MOST Sundays, 10:30 a.m.   
      Meditation; program on a spiritual topic; informal time.

March 7: Program in honor of the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
                 10:30 meditation in the shrine
                 10:45 Program:  “A New Gospel” -- readings.
                             “Themes of Vivekananda” -- Symposium
                 12:15 Refreshments

March 14: “Serve Human Beings as God” - Swami Chetanananda (video).

March 21: “Thoughts on the Bhagavad Gita” Part 44  - Swami Chetanananda (video).

                                    (No Service on March 28)

          “The less the thought of the body, the better. The body drags us down. It is attachment,
            identification with the body which makes us miserable. This is the secret: to think that I
            am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this   universe with all its relations,
            with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings – scenes on a canvas – of
            which I am the witness.”
                                                                                    – Swami Vivekananda