Vedanta Society of the City of New York
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The Vedanta Society of the City of New York is a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission, a Hindu religious organization founded in India in 1897 by Swami Vivekananda. The society was incorporated in 1898 and is the oldest branch of the Ramakrishna Mission in the United States.1
Vedanta itself is one of the six systems of Indian philosophy, meaning "the conclusion of the Vedas." It is based on the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita. The Vedanta Society expounds a modern version of Advaita Vedanta, a school of Indian philosophy, in Western countries. Vivekananda, a disciple of the Hindu mystic Ramakrishna, was instrumental in spreading Vedanta philosophy in the United States and Britain after his influential speeches at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago.13
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