BERLIN RETREATS IN 2026 ^NEW

**To Register for a retreat/s please use the E-Mail: events.vedanta.berlin(at)gmail(dot)com

» 01. Introduction
» 02. Information about the Retreats
» 03. Retreat-Dates in 2026

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01. Introduction

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

After having gained long experience in serving people through three centres (at Bindweide, Mühlheim/Main and Mohnweg Berlin) the members of the Vedanta Gesellschaft felt the need to combine those three centres and establish a permanent centre in Berlin to reach out to more number of sincere spiritual seekers. Monthly retreats are now conducted in the new Ashrama at Marienfelder Allee 73, 12277 Berlin.

Spanning over 16 years we have experimented on the prospect of helping people in finding their self-worth and self-respect, in finding and/or sharing unselfish empathy, in finding and/or sharing pure joy and harmony while working and living with others. We have evolved a mode of symbiotic living combined with the routine of an Ashrama which has been proving to be intensely absorbing and life changing for many participants.

The non-profit service activities of the society are meant for all without any distinction of gender, colour, nationality or religion.

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02: Information about the Retreats

(i) Please Note:
(ii) There will be scopes (a) for benefitting from guided meditation sessions after daily evening prayers, (b) for Mantra recitation / practice and Satsang, and (c) for discussing, working, singing, meditating together, and so on.
(iii) Not Compulsory for those who stay in outside accommodation/s: (a) to take part in religious activities. Of course, one can join in the morning silent meditation sessions. Our offer is: Follow your own way of meditation, but let us meditate together. (b) One can skip the shrine-sessions both in the morning and in the afternoon and join in the lectures only.
(iv) Reduction of Costs: The retreat cost etc can be reduced for students and those who would ask for it.
(v) Registration: Please register your name latest before 7 days of the retreat by E-Mail: events.vedanta.berlin(at)gmail(dot)com, OR by post: Vedanta Gesellschaft, Marienfelder Allee 73, 12277 Berlin. Please pay the Registration / Cancellation Fee of 25€ in advance to the ‘Vedanta-Gesellschaft’. If you like, you may also transfer the seminar fee and any donations in advance. The payment of 25€ will be adjusted with your final payment.
(vi) Retreat Cost (per person): €125 for the 3-day retreat including food (accommodation extra), or €60 per day. * The retreat-cost for the June-retreat or the year-end (December-January) retreat is 200€.
(vii) Accommodation: Only those who want to take part in the practice of morning and evening meditation, prayer etc may ask for accommodation in the Ashrama. The Ashrama has only one single-bed rooms. Elderly persons and ladies will be given preference in the matter of room allotment. People generally donate €35 for three-bed (3 separate beds) rooms and €50 for single-bed rooms, per head per night.
(viii) Bedlinen: Please bring your house shoes and bedlinen. Bedlinen is also available at the ashrama. A small donation of €10 for the use of the bedlinen is welcome.
(ix) Cancellation charge for a booking is 25 Euro.
(x) For regular Volunteers: If you want to volunteer to help us prepare for the retreat and reorganize afterward will receive priority for accommodation. You may arrive one or two days before the retreat and/or stay one or two days afterward. A small donation for these extra days is welcome.
Please help us serve you better!
(xi) Payment: For payment to ‘Vedanta-Gesellschaft’ you may use the following methods: (a) Berliner Sparkasse; IBAN: DE58 1005 0000 0191 2293 69; BIC: BELADEBEXXX; BLZ: 1005 0000. (b) If it is not possible, you may send the amount to us by a cheque or pay it during the retreat. We receive payments by cash, or bank card or some credit cards.
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(As usual, the discourses will be translated sentence-for-sentence into German.)

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Links:
(i) ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2239332745?pwd=Uy9hV05BTy9rUmIzYlMzdVVnNTVjdz09
(ii) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2XYeOK__TXU9TLhxYKhvg/live

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03: Retreats in 2026

         » 01 to 03 May: Swami Swātmārāmānanda
         » 05 to 07 June: Swami Sarvapriyānanda
         » 07 to 09 August: Swamis Tyāgānanda & Bāneshānanda
         » 04 to 06 September: Swami Jnānavratānanda
         » 13 to 15 November: Swami Vimohānanda
         » 31 Dec '26 to 3 Jan '27: Swamis Bāneshānanda & Divyanāthānanda

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>>May-Retreat, from 01 to 03

With Swami Swātmārāmānanda, President, The Ramakrishna Centre, Durban, South Africa.
Topic: Sadhana Made Easy – Whether You Seek God or Go Beyond the Concept.
About the Swami:- Swami Swatmaramananda has been serving as the President of the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa since August 2022. He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1988, received Mantra Diksha from Swami Tapasyanandaji Maharaj, and was ordained into Sannyasa in 1998 by Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj, the 12th President of the Ramakrishna Order.
He began his monastic life at the Ramakrishna Math, Bangalore. During his tenure in India, Swami Swatmaramananda participated in various humanitarian initiatives of the Ramakrishna Order. He served as the head of the students’ home at the Bangalore Ashrama and took an active role in relief and other service activities.
In May 2017, he was posted to the Durban centre of the Order in South Africa. He became the President of the centre in 2022, a role in which he continues to serve.
Swami Swatmaramananda conducts regular classes on the Bhagavad Gita and the Devi Mahatmyam at the Centre. He is also an accomplished singer of devotional music and has released several albums.

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>>June-Retreat etc, from 04 to 07

With Swami Sarvapriyānanda, Minister-in-Charge, Ramakrishna Vedanta Center, New York, USA.
Only in English.

(i) 04 June 2026: Talk at Indian Embassy, Berlin
Topic: To be announced later.
Venue: Embassy of India, Tiergartenstraße 17, 10785 Berlin
Time: 16:00 p.m. to 18:00 p.m.
Links for Registration:
** The online link for the event will be informed later.
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(ii) 05 – 07 June 2026: Retreat im Berlin Ashrama
Topic: From Atman to Ego to Cosmos: Mapping the Role of Consciousness.

** Important Information: Registration for this retreat is closed from today (17.01.2026).

About the Swami:- Swami Sarvapriyananda has been the Minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York since January 2017. He joined the Ramakrishna Order in India in 1994 and received Sannyasa Diksha (final monastic vows) in 2004. He served as an acharya (teacher) of the monastic probationers’ training center at Belur Math, India, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math. He also served in various capacities in different educational institutes run by the Ramakrishna Order in India and as the Assistant Minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California.
During 2019-2020 he was a Nagral Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School, USA.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a well-known speaker on Vedanta and his talks are extremely popular globally via the Internet / YouTube. He has been a speaker on various prestigious forums such as TEDx, SAND, Google Talk etc. He has also been invited to speak at several universities across the world, including Harvard University. The swami has engaged in dialogue with many eminent thinkers such as Deepak Chopra, Rupert Spira, Rick Archer, David Chalmers and Sam Harris.
Some of Swami Sarvapriyananda’s popular talks have been compiled into e-books - “Who am I?”, “What is Vedanta?” and “Dissolve into Infinity” are currently available on Amazon Kindle.

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>>August-Retreat, from 07 to 09

With Swami Tyagananda, Minister-in-Charge, Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, USA, and Swami Baneshananda, President, Vedanta-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Topic: Spirituality Beyond Religion: Practices for the Modern Seekers.
About the Swamis:-
Swami Tyagananda joined the Ramakrishna Order at the monastery in Mumbai in 1976 after graduating from the University of Mumbai in India. He received spiritual instruction (mantra-dīkṣā) from Holy Mother’s disciple Swami Vireswarananda. He received his final monastic vows in 1986.
Besides Mumbai (1976–80), the Swami served in the monasteries at Belur Math (1980–82), New Delhi (1982–83) and Chennai (1983–1997) and was sent to Boston in 1998 to assist Swami Sarvagatananda. He is the Hindu chaplain at Harvard and MIT since 1999 and, after Sarvagatananda’s retirement in 2002, he was appointed head of the Vedanta Society in Boston.
Swami Tyagananda was editor of the English journal The Vedanta Kesari for 11 years (1986–97) and has written, translated and edited fourteen books. He writes a fortnightly blog and his talks are available as audio podcasts. He has presented papers at academic conferences and he gives lectures and classes at the Vedanta Society as well as at MIT, Harvard and, on invitation, other colleges and religious groups in North America.
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Swami Baneshananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He joined the Order in 1976 at its branch centre in Kankurgachhi, Kolkata. From the very beginning of his monastic life as a novice, he served as the secretary to revered Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj, who was then one of the Vice-Presidents of the Order. He had great privilege to study many scriptures under Swami Bhuteshanandaji who was himself one of the best scholars in philosophy and scriptures.
He received Mantra-Deeksha in 1973 from revered Swami Vireswaranandaji Maharaj, the 10th President of the Order, and later, in 1983, received his Brahmacharya vows from his guru. While serving at the Ashrama in Shillong, Meghalaya, he was ordained into sannyasa and received his final monastic vows in 1986.
Swami Baneshananda has served at the Order’s headquarters as head of the Law Department, and subsequently in the Chennai Ashrama as editor of The Vedanta Kesari, one of the Order’s English monthly journals. In 2004, he was appointed head of the Vedanta-Gesellschaft in Germany, a position he continues to hold. In addition, he served for about two years (November 2019 to October 2021) as the interim President of the Centre Védantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, France.

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>>September-Retreat, from 04 to 06

With Swami Jnānavratānanda, Trustee of the Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.
Topic: Sri Ramakrishna’s Way: Living the Relative and the Absolute Truth.
About the Swami:- Swami Jnanavratananda is a Trustee and also treasurer of the Ramakrishna Math, and currently the manager of the Order’s mother centre at Belur Math, India. He joined the Ramakrishna Order at its branch centre at Saradapitha, Belur Math. Worked there in different capacities. He received his monastic vows in 1993.
He has been working at the Headquarters of the Order at Belur Math since the year 1998—at first in the general office , then as the head of its Legal Cell, thereafter as the secretary to Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj (who was the 16th President of the Order) and then as the Manager of Belur Math. Swami Jnanavratananda has taken part in different service activities of the Order.
A good speaker and reader, Swami Jnanavratananda regularly speaks on different occasions at different places and gives classes on holy books.

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>>November-Retreat, from 13 to 15

With Swami Vimohānanda, Minister-in-Charge, Vivekananda Vedanta Society of British Columbia, Surrey, Canada.
Topic: The Vedic Legacy: Reshaping Human Culture and Civilization.
About the Swami:- Swami Vimohananda joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1988 at Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata—one of the Order’s foremost centres publishing spiritual literature. After completing his spiritual training, he served at various centres, including Mysore, Lucknow, and Vrindavan. He received his monastic vows in 1998.
He was subsequently posted once again to Advaita Ashrama, where he served for more than two decades in the publication department. During this period, he edited nearly one hundred titles and translated several works into English and Hindi, all of which were published by Advaita Ashrama.
In 2019, he was appointed the first resident Swami of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of British Columbia in Vancouver. By invitation, Swami Vimohananda has conducted retreats and delivered lectures in various cities across the United States and Canada, sharing the timeless teachings of Vedanta with diverse audiences.

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>>31 December 2026 - 03 January 2027 in Berlin Ashrama

Year-end retreat with Swamis Bāneshānanda of Vedanta-Gesellschaft, Berlin, and Swami Divyanāthānanda of Nippon Vedanta Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan.
Topic: Approaches to Holistic Living: Insights from the 2026 Retreats.
In addition to the lectures on the topic, the program includes the midnight celebration on December 31 and the Kalpataru Day & Holy Mother Puja on January 1.
About Swami Divyanathananda: Swami Divyanathananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He is currently working in the Order’s branch centre in Zushi-shi, Kanagawa-Ken, near Tokyo, Japan. He received his monastic vows in 2012.
Swami Divyanathananda has been learning Japanese language and started giving scriptural classes in Japanese.
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Links:
(i) ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2239332745?pwd=Uy9hV05BTy9rUmIzYlMzdVVnNTVjdz09
(ii) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2XYeOK__TXU9TLhxYKhvg/live

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