Category Archives: Scriptures

Gita Study Group 2.21.11

Saturday, February 26, 2011

In this week’s Bhagavad Gita study group with Swami Tyagananda, we discussed chapter 6 of the Gita, titled The Yoga of Meditation.  This semester we will be using the Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood translation of the Gita.  Swami told us that this translation is not as literal as the one that we used last [...]

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A beautiful verse on Kṛṣṇa

Friday, October 15, 2010

This is a gorgeous verse on Kṛṣṇa, in a style that I’ve never seen before. I found it in Michael Coulson’s Teach Yourself Sanskrit (which is a good heavy introduction to the language, but no substitute for personal instruction ), and I was immediately struck by its unusualness of description.
mand(r)a-kvāṇita-veṇur ahni śithile vyāvartayan [...]

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Who/What is God?

Saturday, July 17, 2010

In a post Saketh wrote a while ago, he asked us all what one of our objects of devotion was; he divided objects of devotion into 3 categories:
1. A deity
2. A person
3. A goal or inanimate object
Today, I want to bring up a similar question:
Hinduism is a religion with many different viewpoints — and consequently, [...]

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