the sambodh society inc. USA

3 DAYS - 4-5-6 AUGUST 2023

We are happy to announce the Silver Jubilee celebrations of The Sambodh Society on August 4-5-6, 2023. It is an occasion for all of us to come together and share our experiences of the past and aspirations for the future. The Sambodh Board of Trustees invite all members of the Sambodh family to this exciting and exhilarating Silver Jubilee celebration. Hope to see you in the first weekend of August at Kalamazoo, MI..

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WHO WE ARE?

Sambodh Society is learning, practciing and teaching community that is open to diverse wisdom traditions of the world. We believe in the essential goodness, freedom, beauty and blissful nature of all living beings and promote an environment-friendly, close to nature, non-violent, minimalist and inclusive lifestyle. We know that to exist is to coexist. To instill this vision of oneness, we expose our members, as truth seekers, to sacred Hindu texts like the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Brahma Sutras and Yoga Sutras. We encourage daily practice of yoga, mantra chanting, and meditation. Our members are motivated to actively and creatively engage in community life—family, professional, corporate, and global. We believe that only by active engagement in the community can we grow in maturity and realize our full potential.

Our motto is “Detached Engagement”. Our inspiration is to find happiness in altruistic work—to work happily and not for happiness.

The Sambodh Society, Inc. founded in 1998 is a registered non-profit religious and spiritual organization in the USA dedicated to the vision and teachings of our Guru Swami Bodhananda Sarasvati who travels across the United States, Canada, Europe, and India spreading the message of Advaita Vedanta, Yoga and Meditation. The Society engages in both spiritual and social service in North America. The Sambodh Center for Human Excellence, at 6363 N 24 St. Kalamazoo, the headquarters of the Sambodh Society, is situated in a thirty-three-acre forest, called ‘Sambodh Aranya’, the ‘Forest of Enlightenment’. Brahmachari Advait Chaitanya, the resident acharya, offers regular online and in-person classes for the local community at the Sambodh Center. Bodhananda Vedic Institute, an affiliate of the Sambodh Society, has been successfully offering a year-long Ayurveda course for serious students of Holistic Health. The Shiva Shakti Shrine at the center attracts hundreds of devotees from far and wide. We believe that Advaita Vedanta, Yoga and Ayurveda are the three disciplines for a healthy, happy, fulfilling, and well-balanced life.

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Guided by the vision and teachings of our Guru, the aspiration is to nurture a community of spiritual seekers who work selflessly for the spiritual uplift of humanity, learn from the best of both eastern and western traditions, and are steeped in Vedanta, a vision which sees the world as one family and all paths as leading to the same Truth. The Sambodh Society, Inc. is based upon a combination of the following aims: To promote the vision and teaching of our Paramacharya Swami Bodhananda Sarasvati, and understanding of India’s ancient spiritual heritage, through the teaching of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras and the Vedantic philosophy of the Indian philosopher Sankaracharya, To activate the inner spiritual power of individuals via instruction in meditation, and, To turn this power towards active and constructive social service.

The range of topics HH Swami Bodhananda addresses extends from human potential development, managerial excellence and leadership studies to the experience of "absolute peace in the midst of dynamic activity".

THE MISSION

WISDOM PEARLS

• Failure is not a problem

  Lack of effort is the problem. When you make one step forward, God takes ten steps towards you.

• hindu dharma for the 21st century

  To create pedagogic strategies to disseminate that corpus of wisdom among the Hindu youth growing up in the United States.

• spiritual musings

  Who cares? The Story of Brahmachari Visvabandhu

VIDEO GALLERY

The Sambodh India and Sambodh Society YouTube channels are in the process of making Pujya Swamiji's lectures available online and for free access.

SAMBODH EMBLEM

The logo of Sambodh is constituted by three arcs and three birds: two trapped within and one flying out. The motto of the logo reads uttishtata jagrata nibhodata - arise awake and realise. The three arcs represent three bodies - gross, subtle and causal, identifying with which the infinite consciousness has become finite.

The finite consciousness is represented by the two birds trapped in samsara, the world of change, and struggling to come out. The trapped birds are a symbol of all kinds of duality: the seeker and the sought, the god and the world, body and soul, good and bad, matter and spirit. The bird flying out into the infinite space of consciousness stands for the enlightened and integrated person who has solved all kind of duality, and who has disidentified with the three bodies as well as the three gunas such as the sattva, rajas and tamas. The motto of the logo uttishtata jagarata nibhodata is taken from the Katopanishad. The exhortation is to awake from material slumber through a process of inquiry and discrimination.