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…
ViBha Class Notes: March 6, 2022 On January 6, 2019 Vivekji started sharing thoughts on Bhakti and this was the transition from Ramayana to Bhagavata. This itihasa and purana, both focus on Bhakti. We have been immersed in Bhakti for…
ViBha Class Notes: February 27, 2022 The structure of Srimad Bhagavata: Skanda 1 – message is for an Adhikari, a seeker. Skanda 2 – message is for the seeker to engage in sadhana, disciplines, practices that help them to evolve.…
ViBha Class Notes: February 20, 2022 The message of Shrimad Bhagavata is high thinking. The evidence of this is in the first verse where the last teaching is Satyam Param Dhimahi – May we contemplate on the truth. The message…
ViBha Class Notes: February 13, 2022 If one has been to Delhi for a vacation or to visit family, does that mean one has seen and one knows Bharat? What If one has been to more than one Indian city,…
ViBha Class Notes: February 6, 2022 Often when we think of the Puranas, we typically think of a rakshasa who is engaged in that which is wrong and Bhagavan comes and destroys this rakshasa so that all is right. We…
