Category Weekly Courses

Beej Ramayan

Summary of last session (February 6) by Shri Mohan Khandekar ji Shri Vijayji started the session by explaining Bhakti, Gyan, difference between Samsari and Gyani and importance of surrendering to Guru. 12:4 Gareen Newaju (गरीब नेवाजू) is an urdu word, which means poor. Shri Ram does not discriminate…

Week 17: Values of the Valued

2/3/21 By Dwija Ramesh RECAP: Reflections/Summary/Key points from previous week’s Class Recap: Last week, we studied the nature of attachment. Why? So that we can grow towards acting without it — to be less conditioned and more independent. We went through the Ladder…

Desiring Bhagavan

Yesterday, January 30, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated decades ago, and his dying words were Hey Ram. How is it that as one is dying, one is smiling and remembering an icon of Joy? We cannot relate to that even when…

Connection with Bhagavad Gita

Summary of last session (January 23) by Shri. Mohan Khandekar ji Shri Vijayji reviewed and explained in detail the relationship of Ma Sarswati with respect to BMI chart. 11:1 Tulsidas Ji emphasizes the importance of the Vedas. Understanding Vedas intellectually is meaningless…

Week 16: Attachment and Action

1/27/21 Notes by Saadhvi Mamidi How do we act without attachment? What is action with attachment? Actions are done half haphazardly Actions are done without full attention Multitasking — both actions suffer When we act with attachment, we build vasanas which leads to…

Generosity

Notes by Om Shreejay Review – Sep 2020 — Nature is always giving. Practice — Give Oct 2020 — Fire is focused. Practice — Uni-task, especially while studying. Nov 2020 — Parents: When you are frustrated or confused, ask yourself —…

Generosity

Intro It’s that time of the month where Vivekji visits us every month! This month we talked about kindness and generosity. Story Time! Karna was a wealthy man who was known to be great for his generosity. One day he…

Divine Love

Why was Bhagavan Krshna born in bondage? He was born in prison with His parents locked up. He did this to release us from our meta-physical bondage. We are not physically bound, but our bondage is more serious — our dependency…