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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 …

In this landmark centenary class, Acharya Tadany delivered the final knockout blow to the illusion of conditional happiness by proving, through Śaṅkara’s razor-sharp logic and the immortal Yājñavalkya-Maitreyī dialogue from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, that nothing in the universe is loved for its own sake. Everything is loved only for the sake of the Self. And the means (sādhanam) like money, …

Acharya Tadany. In this class on Dhyāna Yoga, Acharya Tadany unveiled Krishna’s profound roadmap for meditating on Bhagavān across three progressive levels of spiritual maturity. The manda-adhikārī (beginner) focuses on a single personal form (ēka-rūpa dhyānam), cultivating devotion through concrete images and murtis to build emotional connection. The madhyama-adhikārī (intermediate) expands to see the Divine manifested in everything (anēka-rūpa dhyānam), …

When the mind closes itself, the other is no longer seen as a complex human being and is instead reduced to labels, categories, and simplistic judgments. The mind of the ordinary person is often inhabited by rigid generalizations, by so-called “immutable truths,” and by beliefs that are hermetically closed to dialogue, inquiry, and revision. These are conclusions reached too early, …

Acharya Tadany. In this class, Acharya Tadany unveiled the profound mechanics of our daily existence by mapping the three states of consciousness onto the anātmā’s structure. In the waking state (jāgrat), the conscious experiencer called Viśva operates predominantly through the gross physical body (sthūla śarīram), using its sense organs to interact with the external world while the mind silently records …

Acharya Tadany. In this class, Acharya Tadany turned Arjuna’s battlefield paralysis into a mirror for every modern seeker, i.e., the Gītā does not ask you to run away from family, job, society, or emotions, or even your WhatsApp groups. it commands you to stay exactly where you are and transform your daily duties into the most powerful yoga possible.  He …

Acharya Tadany. In this revolutionary class, Acharya Tadany questioned the most widespread spiritual illusion of our time, God-realisation and Self-knowledge are two different goals. By using Krishna’s own words in Chapter 4, he proved they are the same destination seen from two windows, I.e., when you truly know the Self you automatically know Bhagavān, and when you truly know Bhagavān …

Acharya Tadany. In this mind-bending class, Acharya Tadany used the classic pot-space analogy to reveal the single cause of all suffering, I.e., the subtle body (sūkṣma śarīraṁ) acts like a clay pot that apparently “contains” unlimited consciousness, instantly creating the false individual (jīva) who believes “I am limited, I suffer, I need things.”  In waking and dream the pot is …

Acharya Tadany. In this profoundly practical class on Dhyāna Yoga, Acharya Tadany distilled the essence of Vedic meditation into one revolutionary instruction: do not control thoughts, simply witness them without engagement, for every attempt to suppress or chase thoughts only feeds the ego, whereas pure witnessing (sākṣī bhāva) starves the thought of its power and reveals the ever-present peace that …

Acharya Tadany. Acharya Tadany finally closed the terrifying chapter on kāraṇa śarīram with its fourth and deadliest feature:  anirvācya anādi avidyā rūpam, a beginningless, indescribable, neither-real-nor-unreal self-ignorance that is the sole cause of every rebirth.  Using the perfect analogy of darkness (experienced yet vanishing without trace when light appears), he showed that this ignorance is exactly like darkness: it has …