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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 …