Worship & Meditation

Come and join the holy atmosphere of the Vedanta Society of Southern California Temple here in Hollywood, where we are all sincerely worshiping, praying, singing and meditation on God, the Supreme Reality.

Ramakrishna, Holy Mother, Jesus, Buddha, Rama and Krishna are some of the images and statues worshipped daily in our shrine, symbolizing the harmony of all religions. As the Master Ramakrishna said “So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.”

What do we mean when we say God? According to Vedanta, God is infinite existence, infinite consciousness, and infinite bliss. The term for this impersonal, transcendent reality is Brahman, the divine ground of being. Yet Vedanta also maintains that God can be personal as well, assuming human form in every age. Most importantly, God dwells within our own hearts as the divine Self or Atman. The Atman is never born nor will it ever die. Neither stained by our failings nor affected by the fluctuations of the body or mind, the Atman is not subject to our grief or despair or disease or ignorance. Pure, perfect, free from limitations, the Atman, Vedanta declares, is one with Brahman. The greatest temple of God lies within the human heart.

Vedanta asserts that the goal of life is to realize and to manifest our own divinity. This divinity is our real nature, and the realization of it is our birthright. We are moving towards this goal as we grow with knowledge and life experiences. It is inevitable that we will eventually, either in this or in future lives, discover that the greatest truth of our existence is our own divine nature.

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