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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 …

Acharya Tadany | Jan 9, 2026 In this foundational class introducing Chapter 2, Acharya Tadany presented a clear, universal framework of four stages that every spiritual seeker must traverse to move from saṁsāra’s suffering to mokṣa:  (1) Discovery of the Problem — recognizing the three-fold disease of attachment (rāgaḥ), sorrow (śokaḥ), and delusion (mohaḥ) that afflict the mind and distort …

In this class, Acharya Tadany questions the comforting illusion that a “pure mind” alone grants mokṣa, revealing through Krishna’s words that mental purity is merely the prerequisite soil while jñāna (Self-knowledge) is the seed that actually flowers into liberation, I.e., without deliberate planting through śravaṇam, mananam, and nididhyāsanam, even the cleanest mind remains barren.  He masterfully unpacked the three layered …

Acharya Tadany. Acharya Tadany finally closed the terrifying chapter on kāraṇa śarīram with its fourth and deadliest feature:  anirvācya anādi avidyā rūpam, a beginningless, indescribable, neither-real-nor-unreal self-ignorance that is the sole cause of every rebirth.  Using the perfect analogy of darkness (experienced yet vanishing without trace when light appears), he showed that this ignorance is exactly like darkness: it has …