Navya Vedanta

We are a community devoted to the exploration of the school of Hindu thought known variably as Neo-Vedānta, Navya Vedānta or Vijñāna Vedānta. This school emerges from the teachings of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and Ma Sharada and was propagated universally by their famous disciple, Swami Vivekananda.

The ideals of Vedānta as expressed in the Bhagavad Gitā - such as the strength, masculinity, and courage to face the hardships of life, the persistence, steadfastness and durability to the quest for Wisdom, love, devotion and selfless dutifulness - were largely lost in the intervening centuries of the Medieval Ages. In this period, darker manifestations of spirituality emerged, primarily in escapist desires to flee from the hardships of samsāra and into the lap of Brahmā. Disguised in the flavour of Sātvik sagacity, this Tāmas led Hinduism down an abysmal path of defeat, self-denial, failure, poverty, superstition and eventually the corruption of Dharma. In the nineteenth century, Swami Vivekananda brought back Vedānta to the pedestal it had stood on in the times of Jaivali and Bādrāyana - as the philosophy of Kings and Warriors. We gather in this server to learn about the valid message of Shri Krishna, which inspires Might and Mercy in equal measure, as expressed by the holy Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and his disciple.