October 7, 2021 – Class Notes by Siddharth Kashinath Introduction Most people are experts at escaping – they are escape artists. How so? Because one of our driving forces is duḥkha nivṛtti, which means to escape pain. Why are we…
Noted by Dwija Ramesh Recap: Happiness is our nature unlike what we decided last week. Discourse: At a high level, all of our actions are motivated by two things: Sukha prapti – Seeking happiness Dukha nivritti – Escaping sadness We…
ViBha Class Notes: October 3, 2021 Avidya means forgetfulness. This is not a worldly forgetfulness, as forgetting someone’s name or an appointment, but this is forgetting who one is. What this feels like is – First, Abhavana — which means we don’t…
October 6, 2021 Notes by Reva Sagi Story –A Donkey and Tiger live in the forest and are talking together. The donkey says the grass is blue, while the tiger says the grass is green, so an argument breaks out…
October 6, 2021 Notes by Rishi Nene We started the class with 3 Aum’s. Story – Sumanji told us the story of a Donkey and a Tiger, this Donkey was claiming the grass is blue and the tiger argues with…
Class on Oct 2nd, 2021 Class notes by Shri. Mohan Khandekar With Shri Ram krupa and Shri Gurudev’s blessings we started the third session of Ramcharit Manas which narrates parts from Puranas and Scriptures. Shri Vijayji briefly touched on the…
Week 4, Class 4, October 5 2021
September 30, 2021 – Class Notes by Juie Deo Introduction In our Vedic culture, we have saṁskāras or rituals to remind us to live intentionally. The 10th saṁskāra is akṣara abhyāsa, when we learn to write our first word –…
September 29, 2021 Notes by Dhruva Shreejay Review of last class What is prioritization? Prioritization is our ability to figure out which tasks are most important in our life among other activities. Why is prioritization important? It helps us…
September 29, 2021 Notes by Om Shreejay We started with Shankar ji asking us to show the plants that we planted last week and how many times we expressed gratitude when we watered our plants. Review of last class: Virtue…
