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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 …

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 …