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Confessions of a Twenty-Something Kali Worshiper This article originally appeared in Winter 1998 issue of Light of Consciousness Magazine...

(From They Lived with God: Life Stories of Some Devotees of Sri Ramakrishna, by Swami Chetananada. Copyright rests with the author of...

From the teachings of Swami Lakshmanjoo

Excerpt from Coming Home, the Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions, Larson Publications, Burdett, 1995, (pp. 25-40)....

This article, written in 1992, first appeared in Tattva-Sangarba, the journal of the Sringiri Shankaracharia Math, India. A portion was...

Excerpt from Bhakti Yoga, Life and Works of Swami Shivananda, Vol. 5, Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar, 1986 (pp. 282-287). The...

During a car trip to San Diego, Gita and Usha were able to pose some questions to Haradhanji, the head priest of the Dakshineswar Kali...

Puja is an ancient and powerful Tantric system of worship consisting of mantra, mudra, visualization, ritual action, meditation and...

Excerpt from The Life of Swami Vivekananda by His Eastern and Western Disciples, Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta, 1974, (pp 94-96). One day the...

Excerpts from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, tr. by Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, 1973. Mother Has...

Although Bamakhepa is not particularly know for worshipping Kali, he was such a great Mother worshipper and contemporary of Sri...

The historic Dakshineswar Kali temple was built by an extremely liberal woman, Rani Ramani, whose life was dedicated to Kali. The Rani’s...

The Apparitions of the Divine Mother to Saint Juan Diego Recorded by Antonio Valeriano in 1531 There follows herewith a carefully ordered...

Excerpt from God As Mother, Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar, 1991 (pp. 13-20). Salutations again and again to the blessed Divine...

The stars are blotted out, The clouds are covering clouds It is darkness vibrant, sonant, In the roaring, whirling wind Are the souls of...

Originally published in the 1998 Kali Mandir Puja Program. Achieving but a moment of awareness is a constant struggle. Think of a child...

A non-Christian who is unfamiliar with Jesus becomes horrified when he sees Christians worshipping a portrait of an image of a person...

I had always been an “idolator.” (“Idol” comes form eidol, the Greek word meaning “statue” or any three-dimensional figure.) I expect I...

There is an old association between the Calcutta area and the Goddess Kali. The very name of the city (Bengali: Kalikata) is thought to...

She was so quiet, so dignified. People do not think of the quiet consort of Sri Ramakrishna as a mad, God-intoxicated saint. Outwardly...

It is Sunday. The devotees are free from work, and they have come in numbers to the Temple garden to see Sri Ramakrishna. His door is...

Is God to be thought of only as a vast impersonal Spirit, without form or sex? Or can the Creator be appealed to in some form which is...

(This article, co-authored by Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati and Swami Ambikananda Saraswati, first appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of...

Swami Chetanananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, is the head of the Vedanta Society of St. Louis. We recently got a chance to ask him...