Happiness Is Keeping Your Promises
February 1, 2023 Notes by Maya Raman Review: A class of students went to an ice rink. Once they had put on their skates, they started to skate by holding the railing and each other but no one actually started…
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Upanishad Course , Chapter 19
Week 14 , Class 43, Jan 31 2023
Being More Virtuous
ViBha Class Notes: January 22, 2023 Vivekji shared from a recent workshop – Make Happiness a priority – that we begin with: Today is our 140th class of Vedanta in Bhagavata. We are training ourselves to offer, offer what we…
Practice 21: brahmasmiti vibhavyatam
February 2, 2023 Class Notes by Theos Stamoulis IntroductionPujya Swami Chinmayananda was in Italy once and He was on a bridge just overlooking a stream. And someone saw Him there looking very majestic and noticed that a big red dot…
Uma’s Dream
Class Summary Jan 27, 2023 Vijayji starts with a question for all of us! How did Uma know what to do? He encourages us to do deep Mananam – in a thorough way, where you get a nice grip of the higher…
Happiness is Being Curious
January 25, 2023 Notes by Naami Deo Review A young person asked a Swami how to get wisdom and knowledge. In the river, the Swami pushed the person in water and they fought to get air. Soon the Swami lifted…
Happiness is Being Curious
January 25, 2023 Notes by Saamya Deo Review Last week we learned about a young man who seeked wisdom. He asked a Swami how he can get some and the Swami told the young man to follow him. They reached…
Practice 19/20: dustarkatsuviramyatam srutimatastarko nusandhiyatam
January 26, 2023 Class Notes by Siddharth Kashinath Introduction Conflict resolution tends to revolve around notions like compromise and mediate. Conflict resolution starts with understanding one’s own personality. If one has enemies within oneself, then they will likely have enemies…
Week 14: Guest Guide-Sumanji
Notes by Sanna Luthra 1/25/23 Quick recap of Story Lesson Topic: Goals – How to be consistent with them The Four Types of Goals: Immediate goal, short-term goal, long-term goal, infinite goal Immediate goal – goals relating to present (e.g.…
Week 13: A Review
Notes by Vishva Sachania 1/18/23 Review of last few lessons: – “Right action vs wrong action?” – any actions moving us to purity of mind= right action – any actions moving us away from…