Category Weekly Courses

We Are All Avataras

ViBha Class Notes: November 7, 2021 Swami Tejomayananda once defined Vedanta as a mirror. When we look at the mirror, we don’t actually look at the mirror, but we look at ourselves in the mirror. The practicality of this insight…

Review & Game Night

November 10, 2021 We started off the class with a fun but educational Kahoot game. It reviewed past classes and other fun things. Then we moved on to boys vs girls charades, it was also really fun. The whole theme…

Review & Game Night

November 10, 2021 Notes by Rishi Nene We started off the class with a fun but educational Kahoot game. It reviewed past classes and other fun things. Then we moved on to boys vs girls charades, it was also really…

Change Prarabdha?

Summary of last session (November 6) by Shri Mohan Khandekar. After wishing everyone a happy Diwali, Shri Vijay ji started the session by elaborating three different meanings of the celebration of the festival, based on principles of Vedas. 1.  Karmakand: Celebration done externally such…

sādhana → brahmacarya → ahiṁsā

November 4, 2021 – Class Notes by Siddharth Kashinath Introduction When we are learning a second language, how we learned it was by incorporating some of the words (of the second language) into our first language. We were encouraged to…

Week 8: Titiksha

Notes by Dwija Ramesh Discourse: Virtue for today: Titiksha – fortitude Life is nothing more than a series of experiences. How we meet these determine if they are challenges or learning experiences. These come at us at three levels. Physical …

Satyam (Honesty)

November 3, 2021 Notes by Dhruva Shreejay Story In a faraway place, there was a boy name Arjun.  He lived with his mom and grandfather in a small simple home. They didn’t have a lot of money so times were…

Satyam (Honesty)

November 3, 2021 Notes by Om Shreejay Story There was a child named Arjun who lived with his mother and grandfather. They didn’t have that much money, sometimes it was hard to get food sometimes. So, one day his mom…

Impossible is Possible

ViBha Class Notes: October 31, 2021 Typically, Shrimad Bhagavata is known as a katha or story, however it is not a katha but a Purana — that which is ancient, yet applicable. We have heard many stories that have no relevance to…