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Tattva Bodha – Class 41 Summary Evolution of Elements, Sense Organs & the 24 Tattvas Acharya Tadany | April 6, 2025 In this important class, Acharya Tadany continued the exploration of Samaṣṭi vicāra (cosmic level), detailing how the universe evolves from māyā through the subtle elements and how the three guṇas manifest as fundamental faculties in all beings. Two Fundamental …

Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 6 – Class 212 Summary Managing Thoughts & Pratyāhāra in Meditation Acharya Tadany | March 24, 2026 In this highly practical session on Dhyāna Yoga (verses 6.23–24), Acharya Tadany unpacked Krishna’s clear instructions on how to handle the mind during meditation, focusing on withdrawing from worldly thoughts and cultivating inner clarity. Core Teaching: Turning Away from Worldly …

The Ever-Actionless Nature of Ātmā Acharya Tadany | March 12, 2026 Opening with a discussion on dharma as relative and context-dependent (not absolute), Acharya Tadany emphasized prioritizing dharma over personal likes/dislikes, using the practical example of meat-eating in the Himalayas to illustrate circumstance-based judgment. The core teaching then unfolded the profound nature of ātmā as the ever-actionless, all-pervasive consciousness principle. …

Acharya Tadany.Morning MeditationPune, 5 Feb, 2026. …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 …

In this profound and clarifying class on Dhyāna Yoga, Acharya Tadany centered the teaching on the essential practice of withdrawing the mind from anātmā (non-self), which he defined as three interconnected layers the external universe (all phenomena),  the physical body (sensations and form),  and the mind itself (thoughts, emotions, mental formations) With the ultimate goal of achieving cittaṁ viniyataṁ: a …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, 8 May, 1018. it is all energy, be it restlessness or quietude, agitation or peace, love or hatred, and you are the vehicle thru which it is manifested The master was in his room reading a book. The disciple knocked at the door, carefully and gently. The master then looked up and waved him to go in. …

In this clear and progressive class on Dhyāna Yoga, Acharya Tadany provided a detailed, step-by-step explanation of the three inner stages of meditation (antaraṅga sādhana) as taught in Patañjali’s Ashtaṅga Yoga and reflected in the Bhagavad Gītā:  dhāraṇā (concentration) — the foundational effort to fix the mind on a single chosen object (iṣṭa deity or spiritual concept), requiring repeated redirection …

More and more, people no longer pause to critically review what is being generated in their names. People are unquestioningly accepting what machines produce as if semantically correct sentences were the same as wisdom or creativity, as if speed were a substitute for imagining, creating and understanding Acharya Tadany.Meditation on Technology. Pune, 18 Jan 2026. We live in an age …

In this expansive and foundational class, Acharya Tadany continued the detailed mapping of the material aspect (anātmā) by exploring the prāṇamaya kośa (physiological/vital sheath) and manomaya kośa (psychological/emotional sheath), explaining how the five vital energies (pañca prāṇa: prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, samāna, udāna) and five organs of action (karmendriyāṇi) together form the prāṇamaya kośa, channeling kriyā śaktiḥ (power of action) through …

Wandering the pathways of the mind,I entered forests of quiet creation,Marshlands of unreal depths,And gardens ripened by time. There were fields where ideas took root,Streams where emotions whispered and flowed,Fears clustered like a restless hive,And a lone thought, stubborn, heavy, and slow. I beheld volcanoes of anxietySpilling fire across the plains of patience,While mountains of steady sobrietyFed the deep valleys …