Study and Practice to:

  • Enjoy the vitality of a cosmology and mythology that stretches far back in time, in what has been called the oldest religion on earth
  • Feel a connection to more than 900 million adherents of the world's third largest religion (after Christianity and Islam)
  • Understand the context in which New Thought, hatha yoga, mantras, meditation and other elements of Hindu thought entered into western culture
  • Explore paths of life tailored to you individually: bhakti (devotion), jnana (intellectual development), karma (service), and raja (self-discipline) yoga
  • Become a practitioner of nonviolence, bringing no harm to yourself or to any living being
  • Create your own household shrine adorned with sacred pictures, statues, fresh flowers, incense, and other reminders of the divine Presence
  • Learn about colorful and entrancing rituals that transform worshippers
  • Encounter the Divine in a real and tangible way through darshan, "seeing and being seen by God"
  • Seek timeless truth, consciousness, and bliss through study of Vedanta, a philosophy based on the Principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita
  • Reach beyond scholarship by assimilating philosophical teachings until they permeate each breath and perception
  • Immerse your mind and heart in the initiatory wisdom transmitted by generations of disciplined practitioners
  • Strive to make the whole world your own, treating no one as a stranger