Bhagavad Gita | The Essence of Vedanta

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Bhagavad Gita | The Essence of Vedanta episodes

March 15, 2019 6 - Death is Not the End of Life | Swami Tattwamayananda
Chapter 2 Verse 21 - 22
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on March 15, 2019.
The laws of Karma and rebirth are explained. We are born with a whole lot of accumulated karmas and their results, a bundle or inheritance of samskaras.
Life Continues Even after Death of the Physical Body; Death is a Comma, not a Full Stop.
1 hr 2 min
March 01, 2019 5 – Karma, Re-incarnation – Emerson: The American Vedantin | Swami Tattwamayananda
Chapter 2 Verse 17 - 20
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on March 01, 2019.
- Emerson's poem 'Brahma'
- The Bhagavad Gita: Second Chapter, Verse 19 and the fourth stanza of 'Brahma'.
- We are not the perishable body, the changing senses, the wavering mind or the unstable intellect. We are the immanent, omnipresent and transcendental Atman.
- The practical benefit of this realization: A unique spiritual common sense.
- Our spiritual identity beyond the psychological and physical
- Raising the level of consciousness: the eye of intuitive wisdom
1 hr 5 min
February 22, 2019 4 - The Real and the Unreal: Beyond Pain and Pleasure | Swami Tattwamayananda
Chapter 2 Verse 14 -16
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on February 22, 2019.
- The nature of Reality in Vedanta
- The creation is One.
- You are immortal.
- Remedy for depression
- The five gateways of secular knowledge and sense-perception
- Sublimation and evolution of our ego and diverting our mind into healthy channels.
- Psychology of real happiness
- The danger of seeking perpetual happiness
- Be a Witness of the drama and life & world.
- Beyond the physical, the psychological and the spiritual
1 hr 4 min
February 15, 2019 3 - Swadharma: An Intelligent Approach to Life, Work and Duty | Swami Tattwamayananda
Chapter 2 Verse 11 - 13
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on February 15, 2019.
- You were never non-existent. You will never cease to be. You are eternal.
- Atman: our timeless transcendental dimension
- The secular merges in the spiritual.
- Spiritual food is needed for a healthy mind.
- Swadharma: resolving our inner conflicts
- No separation between the spiritual and the secular
57 min
February 08, 2019 2 – Humanity is One Spiritual Family – The Mystery of the Sacred Word | Swami Tattwamayananda
Chapter 2 Verse 11
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on February 08, 2019.
- Existence is One.
- Seeing God everywhere, all the time, in every action, outside the place of worship
- You are eternal: going beyond the physical, psychological and intellectual
- Spirituality beyond the rituals.
- Introduction continues
- Dhyana-slokas
- Message of the Gita
- Humanity is One Spiritual Family
- The mystery of the Sacred word
55 min
February 01, 2019 1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on February 01, 2019.
-Emerson: an example of the universal appeal of the Bhagavad Gita.
-Sir Warren Hastings's introduction to the first English translation Bhagavad Gita is referred to.
-Lord Krishna answers the questions every refined, cultured, human being would ask.
-Our quest for contentment: Psychology of spiritual contentment
-Problems of success
-The solution
-Efficiency minus workaholism
-Psychological/spiritual explanation of mental blocks – the conflict between mind/desire and intellect/will
-Combination of action and contemplation
-Mahabharata and the Gita as part of it.
-Karma yoga: professionalism + link to a higher ideal – the opposite of workaholism
-Freedom from psychological enslavement
56 min

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