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Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California Saturday, July 3, 1993 Swami Shuddhananda Brahmachari, of Calcutta, India, will lecture on "The Role of Spirituality in a desperate World" at 7 p.m. Friday at Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma. A donation of $ 10 is requested. He will lecture in English. Swami Shuddhananda is founder of the Lokenath Divine Life fellowship. The fellowship is an international service organization of Shuddhanand’s followers in the Karma Yoga sect. Anya Crain, of Sonoma, is president of the fellowship for North America. She said the fellowship runs countless projects dedicated to mother-child education and health, immunization clinics, cottage industries, and other community development services aimed at self-reliance. "True religion is not merely to achieve a high state of realization for one’s own self, but being instrumental in working for those who need our help,". Shuddhananda wrote in a recent newsletter. " I am against any service which would indirectly make people depend on us but open up the gates of inner potentialities to have self-respect and greater urge for self-reliance." In another, more spiritually oriented editorial, he said, "We have to construct millions of living Temples of God in the slums and villages to serve Him who resides in the poor." "His work on a daily basis is running this organization that supports these projects for the poorest of the poor. It crosses all religious lines," Crain said. The by Area group of about 10 to 15 gets together monthly to make lunch for a group of the needy. Shuddhananda is on an international lecture tour which will include keynote speeches at a conference in Washington, D.C., and at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. Page No.9
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