Lord Krishna answers Arjuna’s questions about the meaning of key words that reveal the truth of the self and the nature of Karma. Krishna also reveals what happens to a person at the time of departure from the body. An Audio Course on Vedanta Texts- Bhagavad Gita: Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 8) by Swami Tattvavidananda Saraswati.
Having begun in the last three verses of the fifth chapter, Bhagavan continues and expands upon the topic of meditation throughout this sixth chapter. While providing specific instruction for meditation, Bhagavan focuses on the most important factor in meditation in this chapter-who is the one who is meditating? An Audio Course on Vedanta Texts- Bhagavad
In this chapter on Sannyasa. Lord Krishna explains renunciation of the fruits of action while performing action (Karma Yoga) and renunciation of action by knowledge and mature understanding. An Audio Course on Vedanta Texts- Bhagavad Gita: Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 5) by Swami Tattvavidananda Saraswati.
Lord Krishna teachers the importance of fulfilling one’s duty in a spirit of offering (Karma Yoga). Devotion brings about the inner purification and growth that leads to liberation. An Audio Course on Vedanta Texts- Bhagavad Gita: Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 3) by Swami Tattvavidananda Saraswati.
Problems or limitations in relationships often drive us to seek freedom from relationship. In these twelve-talks, Pujya Swamiji teaches how we might enjoy freedom in relationship. By confining the problems to roles, we discover a wholeness that enriches all our relationships. An Audio Course (Course Code – AVG0610) Vedanta In Daily Life: Freedom in Relationship by
Sorrow is neither caused by the world nor is it caused by any simple. In these classes, Pujya Swamiji helps us to examine the nature and cause of sadness due to sorrowful thinking. Also, we learn how to see the facts more clearly and thereby gain the upper hand of objective thinking in the management
In this course, Pujya Swamiji shows how the seeming disorder of our life is actually order and is never separate from the order of the whole creation. This unfoldment of the vision of the connection between the self and the entire creation helps us to directly know the oneness. An Audio Course (Course Code –
The longest, oldest, and one of the most often quoted Upanishads, Brhadaranyka Upanishad unfolds the knowledge of the self through a wide variety of dialogues. It contains the doctrine Neti Neti (Neither this, Nor that). It also offers methods of worship and Upasanas (meditations) that prepare the mind to receive the knowledge. It’s three sections
Part of the Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishad focuses on the self as Nirguna Brahman. Its twenty-five verses are a concise exposition of the ‘Paramarthika’ vision of Vedanta. Kaivalyopanisad well-known Arati mantras as well as that echo those of other important Upanishad. The Kaivalya’s dialogue between Lord Brahma and Disciple Ashvalayana is a comprehensive inquiry into
In this section of the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad, the great Mahavakya, “Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahman” asserts the oneness of the self with the cause of the world. This profound assertion, naturally, gives rise to a series of questions. Swamiji will continue his elucidation of this profound aphorism in the dialog between Maharishi Yajnavalkya and his
