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Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 2 – Class 38 Summary Ātmā vs. Anātmā: Satyam and Mithyā – The Foundation of Vedānta Acharya Tadany | April 3, 2025 In this foundational and clarifying class, Acharya Tadany addressed a deep student question about why we forget our true nature and keep returning to the cycle of birth and death. He then laid out the …

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 Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 26 March 2026. Not everything that exists…exists in the same way. There is that which exists by itself,And that which only appears to exist. What is the true nature does not arrive,does not change,does not depart.It simply… is. But almost everything we identify withis borrowed.The body changes.Emotions come and go.Thoughts arise and disappear. Even what we call …

By Acharya TadanyPublished in the Diário de Santa Maria, March 12, 2026. Courage is a subtle value and, for that very reason, easily misinterpreted. In many circumstances, what presents itself as courage is nothing more than recklessness, impulsivity, or a refined form of inner blindness. For example, when an action is born from prejudice, ignorance, or a limited view of …

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 foundational class on the causal body (kāraṇa śarīraṁ), Acharya Tadany completed the exposition of the three bodies (śarīra-trayam) by introducing kāraṇa śarīraṁ (verses 108–123) as the unmanifest, beginningless seed condition (avyakta) from which both the gross (sthūla) and subtle (sūkṣma) bodies emerge during creation (sṛṣṭi) and into which they dissolve during cosmic dissolution (pralaya), operating on the principle …

The Bhagavad Gītā teachings begin not in peace, but in confusion, and there lies its eternal relevance. Before wisdom dawns, there must be a crisis profound enough to shake the foundations of false certainty. Arjuna’s trembling bow, his tears, his inability to act, these are not signs of weakness, but of awakening. For only when one truly confronts one’s inner …

A work of art is priceless, and not because of its market value, but because of what it transcends. Art usually captures what is fleeting and renders it eternal. It preserves what is perishable and makes it perennial. In many ways, a true work of art is more beautiful than the real thing, for it does what the real often …