Yoga Vedanta Tantra

Karma yoga is bhakti yoga. Swami Vivekananda, Freud, consequences of technology. Psychological designation in Vedanta appeared. Multipath confusion. Better to integrate all parts of the psyche. All stages of devotion are necessary, must be practised. For karma yoga you need … Continue reading →

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3. Formal devotion. What is karma? Prarabdha, sanchita and agami karma. Karma is similar to a bank account. 3 possibilities: add karma, exhaust karma or stay the same. People with little karma become sannyasi. Karma Yoga means how to relate … Continue reading →

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By reading Vedanta texts it is easy to misinterpret them. Ignorance and knowledge are mixed up. Teaching makes difference between ignorance and knowledge clear. Live your life based on knowledge not on emotions. Isvara and action. What is real? You … Continue reading →

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Existence is my nature. Love is my nature. Everything you do is motivated by love. Stages of love (see chart in the video): 1. Love of objects. What do you love? Samsaris love objects. Suffering comes because objects are not … Continue reading →

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Meditation on the silence. It is impossible not to love. You are Love: Sat Chid Ananda. Every action is motivated by love of the self. What is existence? Scripture as the appropriate means of knowledge. You are not a person. … Continue reading →

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To direct love to the Self you have to practice. Love in relations is dualistic love. Personal gods are symbols to worship you own self. Symbols invoke the love that you are. Is the joy in an object? Inquiry into … Continue reading →

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Talk 4 of Swami Nityabodhananda at Yoga Vidya Center in Cologne, Sept 2019. The conscious principle. All is in me. Consciousness and objects. One or several teachers. Path of action and path of renunciation. Visit Yoga Vidya for more inspiring … Continue reading →

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Talk 3 of Swami Nityabodhananda at Yoga Vidya Center in Cologne, Sept 2019. Question and answers. Human pursuits. Roles in life and attitudes. Need for a teacher. Self inquiry. Vedanta and you are that. The tenth man. Sadhana. Visit Yoga … Continue reading →

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Talk 2 of Swami Nityabodhananda at Yoga Vidya Center in Cologne, Sept 2019. Subject: Karma Yoga and results of actions. Prasadam. Attitude of Devotion to Ishvara. Roles in life. Vers 2:51 Bhagavad Gita. Clarity of purpose. Atma and body. Substance … Continue reading →

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The first of a series of 4 talks on Vedanta, self growth and self discovery by Swami Nityabodhananda. He became a disciple of Swami Chinmayananda at the age of 24. In 1995 he attended the 3 years Vedanta course of … Continue reading →

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Revision and conclusion. What is the meaning of ignorance? The oneness of the individual and the supreme reality. The method of Vedānta. How to get a sattvic mind. Jñāni. You are the happiness you are looking for. You have to … Continue reading →

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How Ira met Swami Dayānanda. Q + A. Books of Shankaracharya. Study Brahma Sutras only with a qualified teacher. Vivekacūḍāmaṇi. Are Advaita Vedānta and Yoga Philosophy harmonious? Vedantic dhyana. Kaṭhopaniṣad and vedantic meditation. Books and articles of Ira. More Vedanta … Continue reading →

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Introversion of the mind and the witness. Intellectual knowledge is not helpful. Discriminative wisdom comes only to bhaktas. Bhakti means love of god. Unless you turn your mind to him he won´t reveal himself to you. The highest teaching in … Continue reading →

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Discussion of the three states. The beauty of Vedānta is that it is based on common experience, not on mystical experience. Pūrṇa anubhava. 2 experiences: being aware of something or being not aware of anything. The states are not in … Continue reading →

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Nirvāṇa–ṣaṭka. Morning remembrance prayer. Vedānta and modern science. No conflict between science and Vedānta. Science makes statements about the waking state. Vedānta is a subjective science: its about your own experience. Analyse of the three states according to Gauḍa-pādas kārikā. … Continue reading →

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Vedānta is not a business. The highest teaching of Vedānta. The method of Vedānta: deliberate superimposition for the purpose of teaching and negation of this teaching in the end. Mutual superimposition. 3 identifcations: knower, doer, experiencer. adhyaropa and apavāda. Tat … Continue reading →

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2 ways to get vairāgya: 1. seeing the defects of happiness from objects (it has a beginning and an end) 2. understanding that objects are not real. Bhagavad Gītā ch. 13, 7-11. Spiritual sadhana: developping qualities. Humility is knowledge because … Continue reading →

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Story about Swami Satchidanandendra and Kirtan. The concept of avidyā / ignorance. Best source is adhyāsa bhāṣya: Introduction to the commentary of Shankaracharya on the Brahma Sutras. 2 notions of ignorance: Shankaracharyas notion of mithyā jñāna and Padmapādas notion of … Continue reading →

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Explanantion of the shloka Brahmanandam paramasukhadam. Shankaracharyas critique of other schools of thought. Knowledge as the solution to remove ignorance. 3 types of ignorance: 1. not knowing as the root. 2. Misconception. Adhyāsa. Superimposition. 3. Doubt. Ancient vedantic position. Five … Continue reading →

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Review of the first two Shlokas of chapter 13 Bhagavad Gita Bhasya. Witnessing consciousness: unique teaching of Vedanta. Paramahamsa. Witnessing consciousness is identical with the supreme reality. Avidya: mixing up of subject and object. Forms: Not knowing, misconception, doubt. Verses … Continue reading →

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