) are respected as great philosophical leaders who have truth that is adaptable to the needs of their particular culture at their particular time -- and their views adapted to different times and different peoples. Religion is universal, and the architecture and temples within the building are designed to celebrate that universality of human kind -- the spiritual path that the individual can realize God -- one goal through many paths.

Moving through the temple are a number of informational areas (brochures, explanatory documents, posters, artistic representations, etc.) that all point to the four primary paths focused upon by Vedanta: the path toward knowledge, the path of devotion, the path of service (selfless action) and the path of concentration. These sound extremely familiar to the books in the New Testament, but for Vedanta, the way to move toward enlightenment is to follow one or more of these paths through the...
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