Yuga Sadhanas
ViBha Class Notes: May 15, 2022 In Skanda 11, in Adhyaya 2, Shri Vasudeva, Bhagavan Krshna’s father, has this intensity to know his son as Bhagavan, not just as his child. And this is a very reflective question as it…
ViBha Class Notes: May 15, 2022 In Skanda 11, in Adhyaya 2, Shri Vasudeva, Bhagavan Krshna’s father, has this intensity to know his son as Bhagavan, not just as his child. And this is a very reflective question as it…
ViBha Class Notes: May 8, 2022 Pujya Swami Chinmayananda, who is devotedly known as Gurudev, experienced Mahasamadhi, the day his body died, on August 3. That day in our culture is known as Sadhana Day. A fine way to understand…
ViBha Class Notes: May 1, 2022 When was the last time we offered gratitude to our eyes? Maybe never! When was the last time we offered gratitude to physical light? If there were no physical light right now, we would…
ViBha Class Notes: April 24, 2022 In our Chinmaya assemblies, we chant “devotion to the people is devotion to the Supreme Self”. Our course, Vedanta in Bhagavata, is dedicated for us to be Bhaktas. If we only identify as Bhaktas,…
ViBha Class Notes: April 17, 2022 Living is hard, from the time one is conscious to the time one is unconscious, but we have to learn how to handle this hardship. This way it becomes less hard for us. Pujya…
ViBha Class Notes: April 10, 2022 In our culture, we have a flow to follow samskaras. There are various systems of samskaras. The most popular now contain sixteen samskaras, and the sixteenth samskara is called Antyeshti – antya means final…
ViBha Class Notes: April 3, 2022 Bhagavata describes Bhagavan. Bhagavan is the ends. Bhagavata also describes Bhakti. If there is an ends, there has to be the means. Bhagavata also encompasses the Bhakta, the one who is following the means…
ViBha Class Notes: March 27, 2022 A seeker had recently asked Vivekji how to shift her dependence from external security to internal security. The reason why this transition is difficult is because we don’t know enough about Bhagavan and we…
ViBha Class Notes: March 20, 2022 Karma Yoga has the purpose to quieten the mind. Jnana Yoga has the purpose to still the intellect. Dhyana Yoga has the purpose to silence the ego. In our course, Jnana is replaced by…
ViBha Class Notes: March 13, 2022 The most significant impediment for us feeling independently joyous is known as vipareeta bhavana. Bhavana means feeling or identification and vipareeta means erroneous or wrong. It makes us feel separate from Infinity, Divinity and…