Category Weekly Courses

Vairāgya – Acceptance

October 13, 2021 Notes by Aarya Mishra Review Shankarji reviewed our past virtue, which was Viveka or Prioritization. Viveka means to organize your days and tasks.Lesson Today’s virtue was Vairaagya which means Acceptance. To show what Acceptance can do to your life,…

yātrā → yoga → sevā → bhaja

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…

Week 4: What is Happiness?

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…

Our Vivaha with Krshna

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…

Viveka – Wants vs Needs

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…

Viveka – Wants vs Needs

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…

Faith in God

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…