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PUERTO RICO, March 17, 2002: Visvanatha Sundararajan, “source” above, sends the following news items from Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean. 1) Swami Yogatmananda, of the Vedanta Society at Providence, Rhode Island, USA, is touring Puerto Rico for three days from March 23 to 26, giving lectures and conducting puja in the center to honor the occasion of Ramakrishna’s birthday which falls on March 16. Swami was born in Maharastra, India, in 1953 and joined the society in 1976. He was in charge of the Society in Nagpur, Shillong, India, and came to the US in 2001 to run the Providence enter. he will give a lecture on guided meditation on the 23rd at Hato Rey, “Falling in Love with God,” based on Naradha Baktisutra on the 24th in Mayaguez and conducing the puja on the 25th in Hato Rey. This is Swami’s first visit to Puerto Rico. For more information, contact Shraddha-ma@yahoo.com. 2) Maha Sivaratri was celebrated grandly at the Satya Sai Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital, on March 13. An evening of worship and bhajana was followed by a vegetarian meal.

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