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Sunday Service : 5:00 - 6:00 PMDaily Morning : 5:45 - 7:20 AM Prayers|Reading|Meditation Daily Evening : 7:00 - 8:30 PM Prayers|Reading|Meditation Tues|Fridays : 7:00 - 8:30 PM - Vedanta Classes Saturdays : 8:30 - 10:30 AM - Karma Yoga : 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Guided Meditation|Prayers 1st Sat of month : 11 AM - 8 PM - Daylong Meditation1st Sun of month : 4 - 6 PM - Children Activities As announced : Hatha Yoga Class

Jan 01 (Sun) : Kalpataru Day | Swami Shivananda’s BirthdayJan 12 (Sat) : Swami Saradananda’s BirthdayJan 20 (Sun) : Swami Turiyananda’s BirthdayJan 27 (Sun) : Swami Vivekananda’s Birthday (Worship at the Center on the same day) Feb 06 (Wed) : Swami Brahmananda’s BirthdayFeb 09 (Sat) : Swami Trigunatitananda’s Birthday Feb 19 (Tue) : Swami Adbhutananda’s Birthday Mar 04 (Mon) : Shivaratri Mar 08 (Fri) : Sri Ramakrishna’s Birthday (Worship at the Center on Sun Mar 11) Mar 21 (Thu) : Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s BirthdayMar 24 (Sun) : Swami Yogananda’s Birthday Apr 14 (Sun) : Ramanavami Apr 21 (Sun) : EasterMay 09 (Thu) : Sri Shankaracharya’s Birthday May 18 (Sat) : Lord Buddha’s Birthday Jul 16 (Tue) : Guru Powrnima (Worship at the Center on Sun Jul 14)Jul 30 (Tue) : Swami Ramakrishnananda’s BirthdayAug 15 (Thu) : Swami Niranjanananda’s BirthdayAug 24 (Sat) : Krishna Janmashtami (Celebration at the Center on Sat Aug 24)Aug 29 (Thu) : Swami Advaitananda’s BirthdaySep 08 (Sun) : Universal Brotherhood Day Sep 23 (Mon) : Swami Abhedananda’s BirthdaySep 28 (Sat) : Swami Akhandananda’s BirthdayOct 05 (Sat) : Sri Durga Puja (Worship at the Center on the same day)Oct 27 (Sun) : Sri Kali Puja Nov 09 (Sat) : Swami Subodhananda’s BirthdayNov 11 (Mon) : Swami Vijnanananda’s Birthday Dec 05 (Thu) : Swami Premananda’s BirthdayDec 18 (Wed) : Sri Sarada Devi’s Birthday (Worship at the Center on Sun Dec 15)Dec 22 (Sun) : Swami Shivananda’s BirthdayDec 24 (Tue) : Christmas Eve

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Painting of Sri Ramakrishana by Frank Dvorak

Frank Dvorak was a famous artist from Austria.

One day, Frank saw in his dream a bearded holy man and immediately a realization dawned upon him that the holy man must be an Indian saint. Frank became restless to find the identity of the holy man. After a fortnight of frenzied search and speculation, Frank mysteriously landed up with a book titled – “Life and Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna” by the world-renowned German philosopher – Max Muller. As Frank flipped through the book, he came across the photograph of Sri Ramakrishna and immediately realized that he was indeed the bearded holy man who appeared in his dream. Needless to say, from that very day, Sri Ramakrishna became his spiritual guide.

Ever since that dream, Frank had a burning desire to do a life size oil painting of the Master. With this in mind, he requested both Swami Saradananda and Swami Abhedananda (both direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna), to send him a few photographs of the Master. Swami Saradananda sent all the three available photographs of Sri Ramakrishna to Frank. Out of three, Frank chose the photograph with the Master standing at Keshab Sen’s house.

But, there was an aberration. Instead of depicting the Master with eyes closed, Frank wanted to paint the portrait of the Master with his eyes wide open, almost like sending a divine invitation to all the troubled souls of this universe to come and drink the holy nectar of spirituality. However, Frank had his doubts and was skeptical about his plan. After days of intense speculation, one night, in a rare spiritual vision, Frank saw Sri Ramakrishna appear before him with his eyes wide open, radiating unfathomable love and spiritual grace.

Based upon this revelation, Frank without any hesitation painted the portrait of Sri Ramakrishna with his eyes open, which today is regarded by the scholars of art as a masterpiece.

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