Spiritual Talk given on January 1, 2017 at the Santa Barbara Temple by Swami Vedarupananda in which he explains the Vedantic way of compassion through service, and how the word "compassion" may have a different meaning than what we think. This is "Practical Vedanta" in action.

Spiritual Talk given on October 2, 2016 at the Santa Barbara Temple in which Swami Sarvapriyananda journeys into classical Vedanta and the "Higher Kfnowledge" from the Mundaka Upanishad to answer life's big questions.

Spiritual Talk given on October 9, 2016 by Swami Sarvadevananda at the Santa Barbara Temple on Sw. Abhedananda. This also includes a recording (in Bengali with translation) of Swami Abhedananda in his own voice.

Spiritual Talk given on October 16, 2016 by Swami Mahayogananda at the Santa Barbara Temple on "Seeking the Mother." And in it are two songs! You'll enjoy it.

Spiritual talk given on October 23, 2016 by Swami Vedarupananda at the Santa Barbara Temple on the fascinating topic of"Life in the Afterworld."

This is Pravrajika Krishnaprana's spiritual talk given at the Santa Barbara Temple on October 30, 2016. Here we get some pointers on the ways and wisdom of being who we really are, including a question and answer period. (Some questions may be a bit hard to hear if the questioner was far away from the podium. But the answers usually clarify things.)

Three swamis from the Belur Math visited Santa Barbara Temple on the evening of November 6, 2016, and each gave a short talk. They were Swami Girishananda, the Belur Math manager; Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice-Chancellor of Vivekananda University; and Swami Devapriyananda, Belur Math's Training Center Principal. They are introduced by Pravrajika Vrajaprana.

Spiritual talk given by Pravrajika Vrajaprana at the Santa Barbara Temple on November 6, 2016. She discusses the work of Elizabeth Noble, later Sister Nivedita (1867-1911), a Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda, who lived and worked in India on behalf of Vedanta.

Spiritual talk given at the Santa Barbara Temple on November 13, 2016 by David Nelson (Devadatta Kali), who takes us on a journey through the various paths that one may take from the self to the Self.

Spiritual talk given at the Santa Barbara Temple by Swami Sarvapriyananda on November 20, 2016. Swami does a Vedanta take-off on the classic 'Zen and the Art of Archery,' using the analogy of archery to illuminate the Vedanta approach to spiritual life.