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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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Can pujas and karma yoga coexist?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I subscribe to the ideal in karma yoga of being detached from the fruits of one’s actions. This is wonderful, as it lets us live a scientific life — after all, the principle of detachment in karma yoga is precisely the method that any good scientist follows. Scientists paralyzed by a fear of having their [...]

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Resolving The Disconnect Between Desires

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

One of the most intense sources of internal conflict for me comes from the disconnect between what I currently want and what I know I should want.
We grow up hearing stories, myths, biographies, slokhas, and inspiring quotes about what we should consider the ideal; and at least for me, these sources of moral guidance have [...]

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