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Bhagavad Gītā – Chapter 2, Acharya Tadany Summary – Class 45Date: June 5, 2025 In this class, Acharya Tadany focused on one of the most practical and liberating teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā: the wisdom of accepting choiceless situations in life. Understanding Choiceless Situations Acharya Tadany explained that the majority of life circumstances are beyond our control: The past (already …

By Acharya Tadany.Published in the Diário de Santa Maria, June 4, 2026.Translated into English by Gemini. A large part of the conflicts between parents and children is born not from a lack of love, but from the unrealistic expectations that both construct over the course of a lifetime.From childhood, we are taught to view our parents through a specific role: …

Acharya Tadany Meditations February 24, 2014 Courtesy is an expression of civility and humanity, just as it is also a silent declaration of emotional intelligence and common sense. It reveals a profound yet subtle understanding that living in society demands sensitivity, respect, and a certain lightness in the way we interact with each other. To be courteous, therefore, is not …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, 3 April 2026. Though the horizon these days is heavy with the smoke of world affairs, we must remember that the Sky is not the Storm. For every shadow cast by a falling bomb, a million secret suns are rising in the human heart, beating with love, breathing with compassion, and standing firm in the quiet courage …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, 1 Mar 2026. And so, what they passed on to us what I call the “survival framework”, that is to say, few of us were taught how to live, on the contrary, we were only taught how to endure. One of the unspoken truths of life is that most of us were raised by parents who, despite …

Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 6 February 2026. 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 …

This place belongs only to you.You may enter it at any time In a world surrounded by noise, wars, disharmony, and anger,To hold a firm resolution to remain rooted in inner peaceIs an inspiring and courageous goal. To cultivate this, you may create and preserveA chamber of silence and peace within yourselfA sacred inner spaceWhere worries, anger, revenge, conflict, sadness, …

There are countless possible approaches, but a simple and deeply illuminating analogy can help us. The leftovers thrown into the trash yesterday are not used to prepare today’s meal. This is an obvious, everyday fact, yet it carries a powerful lesson. By Acharya Tadany Cargnin dos Santos. Published in Diário de Santa Maria, January 1, 2026. The past is, in essence, …

In this profound class, Acharya Tadany resolved one of the deepest paradoxes in Vedānta by demonstrating that while the Upaniṣads declare that everyone loves the Self (ātmā) alone, and all worldly love is conditional (capable of turning into sorrow when conditions change), the same scriptures uphold universal love as the highest ideal, the apparent contradiction dissolves when we distinguish between …

In this compassionate and deeply realistic class, Acharya Tadany illuminated Krishna’s non-coercive yet uncompromising philosophy on spiritual freedom (mokṣa) as the ultimate goal of life—the complete liberation from the cycle of birth and death—while emphasizing that the Vedic tradition uniquely grants every individual total freedom of choice.  Krishna suggests mokṣa as the highest pursuit but never enforces it as a …