VSE Vedanta Meetups

We are a gathering for seekers drawing inspiration from Vedanta as a path of self-inquiry and service to humanity.

The Vedanta Society of Edmonton is an organization for individuals from all walks of life with an interest in studying texts and commentaries on the Vedas.

If you have watched Swami Sarvapriyananda's discourses on YouTube, then our meetups might interest you. We organize gatherings on a drop-in basis, open to the public, conducted in English, and normally free of charge (unless there are costs we cannot bear).

We follow in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), who brought his simple message to the West in 1893 that every individual has vast, limitless potential if they harness their own minds.

Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission Order of Monks with disciples of his Master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886), a divine mystic, and his consort, Sri Sarada Devi. His brotherhood of monks from this Mission are well versed in the vedic texts and a great resource to help us access this wisdom and encourage us to stabilize our hearts and minds. They are our best guides in modern times to address our questions and doubts during our self-inquiry.

This platform helps to notify you about visiting monks from the Ramakrishna Mission in Edmonton, Canada. They conduct Vedanta retreats and speak on different topics from Vedanta philosophy.

It is our good fortune, to have found Swami Vimohanandaji, the Minister-in-Charge of the Vedanta Society of British Columbia since December 2019. We have been in touch with him in Edmonton since 2021.

Advaita Vedanta philosophy follows the path of jnana yoga applying the framework that reality is infinite consciousness bliss and that the light of knowledge awakens us to this perception of eternal oneness.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is based in Vedanta Society of New York (VSNY), affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India and the Order's first Center established by Swami Vivekananda himself, in 1894 that seeded the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement.

Vedanta is a philosophy originating in India concerned with spirituality and the metaphysics of reality, the individual soul/self, and the ever-changing empirical universe, world, body and physical matter. As individuals on the Vedanta path, our quest includes being immersed in service as a karmic act of worshipping the divine/truth/oneness in service to others, given the reality we find ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda was the first teacher of Vedanta to come to the West, who drew wide acclaim by his electrifying addresses during the Parliament of Religions sessions held in Chicago in 1893. After its conclusion, a group of American students interested to learn more about Vedanta gathered around the Swami, and the first Vedanta Center in the West was established in New York City.

The Vedanta Society of Edmonton, is an independent society, that draws inspiration from these lectures and aspirants who help unpack and explain this philosophy to us regular people.

We have been grateful for the generosity of the Hindu Society of Alberta for providing us a meeting space the last decade. However, due to water damage from a fire, the facility remains closed to the public until repairs are completed. The Society is in a process of relocating our meetups. The plan will be to resume on Zoom while we establish a physical location. We look forward to meeting again soon.

For more information please visit our website edmontonvedanta.org.