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In this deeply practical and psychologically penetrating class on karma yoga, Acharya Tadany illuminated Krishna’s core teaching that action (karma) itself is not the source of suffering — our attachment to uncertain outcomes is — and that true mental freedom arises not from avoiding action but from understanding its true nature. That is to say, we have complete control over …

By Acharya Tadany Cargnin dos Santos Published in Diário de Santa Maria, February 12, 2026 We Are Living Through an Unprecedented Revolution Never in the history of humanity has knowledge been so accessible. What once required years of study, long journeys, and immense effort is now just a few clicks away. We live in an era where information circulates faster …

When curiosity is punished, it does not disappear; it goes underground.When expression is repressed, honesty is replaced by secrecy. A rigid and orthodox family upbringing does not raise healthy or virtuous human beings. On the contrary, it often produces individuals who become habitual liars, subtle manipulators, and emotionally fragmented adults. This is because excessive control does not cultivate virtue, it …

…you must strive your whole life to overcome this primal inheritance… Know this. In life, laziness is your greatest adversary, and the body is its fortress. So, you must strive your whole life to overcome this primal inheritance because, if left unmastered, it will colonize your emotional, intellectual, and spiritual selves. And this, my dear one, is the threshold of …

…the war ends not when the outer battle is over, but when the inner battlefield is illuminated by the light of Self-knowledge. Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, Jan 26, 2026. We have all faced our own version of the battlefield, i.e., a moment of profound moral crisis, paralyzing indecision, or deep grief where every path forward seems wrong. In these days, we …

Even so, something remains.Something that is perfectly satisfied.Perfectly complete.Perfectly at peace. Every night, life offers us a free preview of essential human fullness.And it happens not through effort.Not through achievement.Not by becoming something new.It happens simply by falling asleep.For when we wake up, we say:“I slept so deeply…Nothing passed through my cognition…I lacked nothing…I worried about nothing…It was in a …

He was a kindred spirit of the road, a hitchhiker of fate, always ready to embark on a new adventure or chase a fresh idea. He lived to quench an unquenchable thirst for rebirth, walking hand-in-hand with the original, the unknown, and the new. John used to say that his life was a revolution of dreams, vivid visions that swept …

Some days are like a desert.Vast and void, boundless and bitter, heavy and hollow. Some days are like a desert.Vast and void, boundless and bitter, heavy and hollow. Perhaps they aren’t even days at all, Truth be told, we should call them nights. For though a world remains visible to the eyes,The darkness within cannot name the shapes without. These …

In this insightful class, Acharya Tadany addressed the profound challenge of interpreting sacred texts like the Upanishads and the Gītā, warning that many approach them not to discover truth but to validate pre-existing beliefs, leading to misinterpretation and missing the transformative power of the teachings.  Then, Acharya Tadany emphasized instead the traditional guru-disciple lineage, where knowledge is transmitted with proper …

In this meticulously structured class on Chapter 1, Acharya Tadany dissected Arjuna’s progressive emotional collapse on the Kurukṣetra battlefield as a deliberate five-part dramatic arc designed by Vyāsa to mirror the universal human descent into saṁsāra (the disease of worldly attachment). From the grand introduction of the dharma-field and the assembled armies, through Arjuna’s systematic observation of beloved relatives and …