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Everything That Carl Sagan We Perceive Around Us Is We We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. – Everything that Carl Sagan we perceive around us is We struggling towards free- dom, from the atom to the P IERRE T EILHARD DE C HARDIN man, from the insentient, To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most lifeless particle of matter people exist, that is all.-Oscar Wilde to the highest existence on Life is a tragedy full of joy. –Bernard Malamud earth, the human soul. The L I FE is a screen which separates us from the mystery whole universe is in fact of things. –Viktor Hugo the result of this struggle T h e purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter. — L e o Ros t e n for freedom. L iv in g is like licking honey off a thorn . Swami Vivekananda –Louis Adamic B e l i e v e that life is worth living, and Contents your belief will help create the fact. — William James 2—3 News, Interview with Pravrajika Ajayaprana Mataji on: Facing Change H E who has a why to live for can bear almost a n y h o w . – F RIEDRICH N IETZSCHE 4—5 Coming Events, Wisdom of the Gita JOY comes from God. Who could live and who could Children—Humanity’s Greatest 6—7 breathe if the joy of Brahman filled not the universe? … Assets Swami Ranganathananda from joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return. 7 Vedanta Answers: Q & A with -Taittiriya Upanishad Swami Smarananda From: 1001 Pearls of Life-Changing Wisdom Insights on Identity, 8 Book News—New Titles Truth, and Success. Compiled by Elizabeth Venstra Ramakrishna Sarada Vedanta Society of NSW www.saradavedanta.org PH: 61 2 9745 4320 Email: [email protected] Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon NSW 2132 P.O Box 817, Strathfield NSW 2135 www.facebook.com/VedantaSocietyofNSW Vedanta News Donation: $25.00– 2 years 8 issues Payable to: RSV SOCIETY OF NSW PAGE 2 VEDANTA NEWS Obituary One Abhaya Karam Launched by a committee led by Sri Lankan expat members to raise funds for orphanages run by the Ramakrishna Order and others, Abhaya Karam (Helping Hands) has raised over 1 million dollars since its inception 26 years ago. The 26th annual fundraising evening was held on Saturday, April 21, at the River- side Theatre in Parramatta. Pravrajika Gayatriprana was the guest of honour accompanied by her sister nuns, Pravrajikas Sridharaprana and Nityatmaprana and also by Urmila Mehta. As usual the organisers requested the Society to have a stall with our Vedanta Books including the popular Amar Chita Katha picture books. PAGE 3 In Brief Iftar Dinner At the Invitation of The Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Pravrajika Gayatriprana accompanied by Betty Yeoh and Nandu Mehta attended the Recent interview by Vedanta News with annual Ramadan Iftar Dinner Rev.Pravrajika Ajayaprana Mataji, Vice - (Breaking of the Fast) held on May 30, President of Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Adelaide Visit Pravrajika Gayatriprana vis- Q. Mataji, Today we’re facing unprecedented change in our lives: ited Adelaide from Friday 11 to change of workplace, change of career, change in our family and Monday 14 May. Two parlour circle of friends, change of suburb, city or country, change in our talks on the topics: How to Over- health and mobility as our body ages, the grief from death of life come Stress & Humility—the partners and loved ones. How to digest and adjust to so much Mark of Stability led to lively ques- change? tion and answer/ discussion ses- sions as did the Sunday half day MATAJI: One word in Sanskrit for the world is jagat or uni- retreat exploring the theme: How verse. Jagat is always on the move, the world is always changing. to Dissolve the Ego. If we can accept the fact that the world is changing, that yester- days’ world is not todays’ that it will go on changing and if we She visits Adelaide twice a year at can view this world like a cinema screen and be a witness to all the invitation of the Ramakrishna this change then we will not be shaken, but moving along with it. Sarada Vedanta Society of South Australia. Her hosts in Adelaide, Q: Taking it to a personal level, Mataji, how did you face the big David and Nermalla Koo, also changes in your life coming to Sydney from Trivandrum in 1982 host the fortnightly meetings of to start Sarada Math’s first Centre outside India - a big jump per- the Society in their home. sonally and organisationally, a tremendous responsibility-and then 30 years later, returning to Trivandrum from Sydney, tak- ing leave of the Centre you developed from scratch, taking leave of so many people so attached to you and so saddened to see you leave – two very big, dare I say, emotionally challenging changes. MATAJI: Before moving to a new atmosphere I never pictured as to what I would be facing. I kept my heart wide enough, good enough to accept whatever came. There was an ideal: I was do- ing the work of Sri Ramakrishna and the Ramakrishna Order as faithfully and in the best way possible as I could. So I could not Bhutan Talk expect anything I was just to accept everything. At the celebration of Buddha’s Q: A good guide for us. Less of expecting more of Birthday in Vedanta Hall on Sun- day 29 April, guest speaker, Wal- accepting. ter Mason, gave a fascinating MATAJI: There is no harm in expecting but at the same time powerpoint presentation and talk on his travels in Bhutan, the an- keep the fact at the back of your mind that all your expectations cient Himalayan Buddhist country may not be satisfied, so keep a good part of the heart for ac- which has gradually emerged ceptance. from seclusion over recent dec- ades. Walter’s a well-known writ- er, blogger and speaker. PAGE 4 VEDANTA NEWS events June—August 2018 Sunday 17 June—9.30am to 4.00pm 1 Day Retreat on Bhagavad Gita —at Vedanta Hall Focusing on: Chap. 4, Wisdom in Action. The programme will include classes by Pravrajika Gayatriprana, time for silent meditation, question and answer session, group discus- sion and clarification of discussion. Morning and afternoon tea and lunch will be provided. Offers for help with the cooking are welcome. Please contact us on: 9745 4320 Bhagavad Gita Chap. 4 — Wisdom in Action I N THIS C HAPTER Krishna teaches how not to be held back and haunted by the past, how not to be calculating and fearful about the future, how our actions—good and bad—do not cling to our Real Self. He exhorts us to act unselfishly, heroically in the living present. Do this and be truly free. Sunday 29 July from 10.30am concluding with lunch. Guru Purnima Celebration —at Vedanta Hall Guru Purnima falls on Friday 23 July and will be celebrated on Sunday 29th. Program: Hari Om Ramakrishna Chant, Silent Meditation, Devotional Songs, a few talks including one by Pravrajika Gayatriprana and the Vedanta Memoirs of Nandu & Lalita Mehta. We hope to conclude the programme with a video link-up via skype with Rev.Pravrajika Ajayaprana Mataji, followed by lunch. Offers for help with the cooking are welcome. Contact us on: 9745 4320 Sunday 12 August 10.30am to 12.30pm Overcoming Anger A Vedantic Approach —at Vedanta Hall Exploring these themes in this interactive session between panel and audience: • Are we living in the Age of Rage? • How to manage anger? • Can we use anger as a tool for positive growth & change? • What about righteous anger? The Panel: Pravrajika Gayatriprana Fred Schnerring Dr.Ashit Maitra Facilitator: Robert Grant PAGE 5 events June—August 2018 Sunday 2 September from 10.30am to 12.30pm Sri Krishna ’ s B i r t h d a y —at Vedanta Hall This year Sri Krishna’s birthday falls on Sunday, 2 September and will be celebrated the same day. Programme: Hari Om Ramakrishna Meditation Chant, Silent Meditation, Group chanting of the Sanskrit and reading of the English translation of Chapter 15 of the Bhagavad Gita, Talks by Pravrajika Gayatriprana & ????? Concludes with distribution of offered food. Please bring some sweets or savouries for offering. Anger Management It is very difficult to control anger; but, we have to train the mind in Join our controlling anger. First of all, we get angry, we become cool after some time. Then, we must reflect: why did I get angry? I lost control; now I fortnightly shall try. In this way by repeated exercise of will-power and dedication to higher causes, we can slowly overcome these evil emotions... Bhagavad We ‘explode’ into anger. Harvard University Professor William McDougall’s famous book, Character and the Conduct of Life contains Gita a good exposition of this problem of anger, how to control it, and how Class & to make use of it also. It is useful in life. No emotion, including anger, is bad by itself, according to psychology. But, one must know how to han- Discussion dle them. And anger has a place in human life, You see some injustice Led by Pravrajika going on around you; it must rouse your indignation, under control. Un- Gayatriprana and fo- less you have anger, you cannot react properly to it. It will multi- cussing on the commen- ply...anger can be channelized into socially useful purposes...That is tary of Swami Ranga- where one of the biggest parts of education for character comes.
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