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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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Misinterpreting Freedom

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Recently, I was discussing Hinduism and the ideas of freedom and maya with one of my close friends. When I explained to her that for me, the goal of Hinduism — and of my life — is to become free and to understand that there is more to reality than just this physical world, she [...]

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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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