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Class Summary for Jan 25, 2025 - Chapter-4 Summary / Conclusion

Summarized by:  A K Srinivasan Gyanakarmasanyasayoga Essence – The one who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is the wisest person; a perfect performer of all actions Fundamentals of Vedanta Identification theory – Like person watching a movie and starts to identify with the characters of the movie; the person starts the movie as a master and exits it as a slave of the character. This is a mistake. Vedanta says this is the same we do in real life as well. Consciousness aka Brahman or Purusha – it is the I or Ahum in us, the awareness in us. It is sat-chit-anand. It is the only reality. It is bliss absolute. Perfection incarnate. This is the great truth. Matter aka Maya or Prakurti – anything made of the 5 elements –Panchamahaboota – the whole world and BMI. Why am I not experiencing bliss now? Because your identification is with the imperfect BMI. So my experience will be the imperfection of BMI with which I identify.  Problem is with identification. So dis-id...

Class Summary for Jan 14, 2025 - Chapter-4 Slokas 37-42 continued & Conclusion

 Summarized by Sudha Radhakrishnan Opening Prayers, Breathing Exercise & Meditation Detailed recap of previous class, Ch - 4, Verses 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 42 We started the class discussion by reiterating Shri Ramana Maharishi’s quote, ‘When the doer is dead, the results of the action will not affect you’.   Who is the doer? The doer is someone who is always anxious about the results of his actions. How do we remove the anxiety? By thanking God for giving us the opportunity to do so in every step and performing all actions without any attachments.  In this process we remove ‘i’ in all our experiences, thereby increasing ‘I’ and promoting self growth. Discussion of Karmas: Prarabdha Karma: A bundle of karmas that we are born with and needs to be exhausted. Aagami Karma: A set of karmas that we accrue during our present lifetime.   Sanchita Karma: Mountain of karmas from our past lives.   Discussion of Jodiji’s question: How can knowledge bu...

Class Summary for Jan 7, 2025 - Chapter-4 Slokas 37-42

Thanks to Anuji for the notes We started with our invocation prayers, followed by Pranayama and meditation. Then we recapped what we did last couple classes and went over the 12 types of yagnas (in short). Review of the Shlokas 37,38,39. Shloka 37:- Agni burns all the things put in the havan kund in the same way all the vasanas get burned with Gyana Agni. Sholka 38:- how yoga is a common term in Sanskrit. It is talking about purity of mind by prolonged performing of the karma yoga example formula pickle jar. We need to cleanse by karma yoga and purify with bhakti yoga. One who has attained this and will quickly attain the bhagawan. Sholka 39:- What kind of trust or faith should one who is learning must have towards the guru. The student who is learning gynana from the guru must always have nature of faith and any questions or enquiring he/she puts to the guru must be out of intention to learn and eagerness and not to examine the knowledge of the guru. Any question/enquire must b...