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In this clarifying and deeply empowering continuation on the varṇa system, Acharya Tadany presented varṇadharma as the Gītā’s multifaceted framework for social harmony, growth, prosperity and spiritual evolution — not a rigid birth-based hierarchy but a dynamic lens that views society through three overlapping perspectives:  jāti (birth, immutable and equal in dignity, determined at birth and unchanging),  karma (profession/occupation, fluid …

In this foundational and psychologically penetrating class on Chapter 2, Acharya Tadany introduced the core theme of the Bhagavad Gītā as the solving of the universal human problem. And what is the fundamental human problem? It is the inseparable triad of rāgaḥ (attachment to people, objects, and outcomes), śokaḥ (sorrow from loss, disappointment, and unfulfilled desires), and mohaḥ (internal and …

The chapter 1 is not history. It is the description of your own biography. You are Arjuna. Your family drama, your job crisis, your fear of ‘what will people say’, your guilt about money, your anxiety about the future, this is your Kurukṣetra. And right now, silently watching you have your meltdown, is your own inner Kṛṣṇa waiting for you …

Acharya Tadany In today’s second class, Acharya Tadany analyzed every illusion we have about “security” and “pleasure”. Everything we chase (money, relationships, health, likes, even good karma) is just a more sophisticated form of slavery, because we become prisoners of both its presence (fear of losing it) and its absence (fear of never having it).  Artha gives us money but …

By Acharya Tadany In this first class of Tattva Bodha, Acharya Tadany showed that every living being shares four basic drives, i.e., food, sleep, fear/security, and reproduction, but only humans have the unique gift (or curse) of self-consciousness and self-judgment.  This extra capacity gives us the ability to set goals and ask “Is this all there is?”, which is the …