In this deeply systematic class, Acharya Tadany provided a comprehensive exploration of meditation within the Bhagavad Gītā and Patañjali’s Ashtaṅga Yoga, presenting the eight limbs as a progressive roadmap from external ethical foundations to complete self-knowledge, with the first five limbs (bahiraṅga sādhana) — Yama (five ethical restraints: ahiṁsā, satya, asteya, brahmacarya, aparigraha), Niyama (five positive observances: śauca, santoṣa, tapas, …
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Happiness. A Serious Affair.
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Credibility Needs Little Defense. When Fewer Words Carry More Truth.
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Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 2, Class 41
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In this foundational class on the causal body (kāraṇa śarīraṁ), Acharya Tadany completed the exposition of the three bodies (śarīra-trayam) by introducing kāraṇa śarīraṁ (verses 108–123) as the unmanifest, beginningless seed condition (avyakta) from which both the gross (sthūla) and subtle (sūkṣma) bodies emerge during creation (sṛṣṭi) and into which they dissolve during cosmic dissolution (pralaya), operating on the principle …
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Read More »Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 6, Class 202
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Read More »Class 29, Tattva Bodha
In this profound and clarifying class, Acharya Tadany addressed key questions about the subtle mechanics of death and the nature of Vedāntic knowledge while completing the overview of the 11 subdivisions of the material aspect (anātmā), emphasizing that udāna prāṇa (the upward-moving vital energy) is the specific force described in the Vedas as responsible for detaching the subtle body (sūkṣma …
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