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॥ भगवद् गीता ॥ … Bhagavad Gītā … by Acharya Tadany Chapter 6, Class 238, Oct 13, 2026. Before Class The Festival of Navarātri Acharya Tadany opened the class by explaining the significance of Navarātri to Antonina. This sacred festival, whose name literally means “nine nights” (nava = nine, rātri = night), is one of the most important celebrations in …

Spiritual growth is not about having less of life; it is about discovering a fullness that no finite experience can provide.Spirituality is sometimes misunderstood as a gradual rejection of ordinary life: fewer possessions, fewer relationships, fewer pleasures, and fewer worldly responsibilities.But external simplicity alone does not guarantee inner freedom. A person can possess very little and still be consumed by …

॥ भगवद् गीता ॥ … Bhagavad Gītā … by Acharya Tadany Chapter 2 – Class 63 – Oct 9, 2026. Summary Introduction to Karma Yoga: Actions and Results Acharya Tadany opened the class by discussing the foundational principles of Karma Yoga from the Bhagavad Gītā, focusing specifically on the relationship between actions (karma) and their results (phala). He explained that …

॥ भगवद् गीता ॥ … Bhagavad Gītā … by Acharya Tadany Chapter 5, Class 200, Oct 8, 2026. Q&A before class The Challenge of Applying Spiritual Knowledge Acharya Tadany and Dipti discussed spiritual practice and the challenges of applying philosophical teachings to daily life. Dipti openly shared her experience of feeling a gap between knowing spiritual concepts intellectually and practically …

By Acharya Tadany. Published in the Diário de Santa Maria, October 8, 2026. …technology must be a mirror that expands our vision, never the cage that imprisons our capacity to love and to give genuine meaning to our existences. When I read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a teenager, my worldview changed definitively. The work confronted two opposing universes: …

॥ विवेकचूडामणि ॥ … Vivekacūḍāmaṇi … by Acharya Tadany Class 139, Oct 7, 2026. Summary Acharya Tadany began the formal teaching by chanting the opening prayers and then introduced verse 135 from Vivekacūḍāmaṇi. He noted a small correction needed in the transliteration: “Avāstāsu” was missing the “Ukāra” in the third line. The verse reads: Prakṛti vikṛti bhinnāḥ Śuddhābodhasvarūpaḥ Sadāsadam aśeṣaṁ …

Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 7 October 2026. The greatest obstacle to meditation may not be a restless mind, but a mind constantly complaining about life.Meditation does not begin only when we sit down and close our eyes.Consider this…if throughout the day the mind is constantly saying:“I don’t want this reality.”“Why did this happen to me?”“This person should behave differently towards me.”“I …

॥ भगवद् गीता ॥ … Bhagavad Gītā …by Acharya Tadany Chapter 6, Class 237, Oct 6, 2026. Summary Meditation in the Bhagavad Gita Acharya Tadany began summarizing the sixth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, which focuses on meditation as a spiritual practice. He explained that this chapter specifically deals with Nididhyāsana, the assimilative meditation practiced after receiving Vedāntic teachings, as …

Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 7 September 2018. I was consumed by a whirlwind of travels, writings, memories, duties, teachings, meetings, and endless strategies.Then, suddenly — unexpected, intense, and full of life — Happiness arrived.In an instant, her presence drew me away from everything I once deemed essential, revealing how much of it was merely secondary, trivial, or fleeting. When happiness enters the …

॥ विवेकचूडामणि ॥ … Vivekacūḍāmaṇi … By Acharya Tadany Class 1, Oct 5, 2026. Summary Important Questions Raised What are the three main sources of Vedāntic teaching, and how do they differ from one another? Why cannot Vedānta be logically proven, and what is the role of supporting logic (Sambhāvanā Yukti)? What are the three meanings of the word “Viveka,” …