Category Vedanta in Bhagavata

ViBha Class Notes – April 2, 2023 When we don’t feel well, we feel like we are held back. We can’t exercise as well, we can’t digest as well, we can’t think as well. Everyone of us is born with…

ViBha Class Notes – March 26, 2023 Pujya Swami Tejomayananda shared, “Do not tell God how big your problems are, Tell your problems how Big your God is”. In Sanskrtam, the word for God is Brahman, meaning Bigness, The Biggest.…

ViBha Class Notes – March 19, 2023 The first prayer that we chant at the start of our class shares that it is only Bhagavan Krshna who can finally help us — neither our parents, nor the government can help us with…

ViBha Class Notes – March 12, 2023 Bhagavan Krshna shares that His Bhakta should be praised and served more than Him. The logic of this is that it is through Bhaktas that Bhagavan nurtures, manifests Yasha which means reverence or…

ViBha Class Notes – March 5, 2023 If we do not have time to breathe, then we do not have time to think. Not thinking about Bhagavan is called Vis-smarana, which is forgetfulness. One forgets how to be happy or…

ViBha Class Notes – February 26, 2023 We will have completed 144 hours of Bhagavata Purana this morning. Do we remember what Bhagavata means?  From a recent meeting with Swami Tejomayananda, Guruji shared that Vedanta needs to be interpreted in…

ViBha Class Notes – January 29, 2023 When Shri Bharata had come back to Ayodhya, Bhagavan Rama had left for the aranya, and Raja Dasharatha was unwell, he had shared with his mother, Rani Kaikeyi, “Anyone who doesn’t have a…

ViBha Class Notes – February 12, 2023 Prayag is known as a teertha. When we think of a teertha, we think of a man with a silver vessel who gives us some liquid concoction from it. The etymology of the…

ViBha Class Notes – January 15, 2023 When Bhagavan Rama was preparing to leave Ayodhya, His parents were encouraging Bhagavati Sita to stay in Ayodhya. She then shared with them that she would experience more sukha being with Bhagavan Rama…