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Class Summary for April 1, 2025 - Chapter-5 - Slokas 25-29

Summarized by: A.K. Srinivasan The class started with opening prayers, pranayama and meditation followed by a summary and recap of last week’s class.  Class led with parables from participants, around the topic of attachment to higher purposes by detaching from baser ones, including: •⁠  ⁠The story about a businessman and a sadhu traveling in First Class by train. Businessman thinks both of them are at the same level carrying similar set of belongings, except for their outward appearances and clothes; one in fine professional attire, while the other in simple, clean rags. They get off at a train station and get talking over a cup of tea. Train starts to leave. Businessman frets about the luggage left in the train, while the sadhu is unperturbed and doesn’t care for the luggage and wants to continue the conversation. * As we evolve thru the path of knowledge, we cease to be attached to material possessions* •⁠  ⁠How a string instrument, the iktara, comes into being. From c...