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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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How to develop confidence

Monday, January 25, 2010

Today, at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Center in Boston, Swami Tyagananda delivered a lecture on “Living from Moment to Moment.” He discussed human perception of time — how sad past events haunt us and uncertain future events frighten us, leaving little room to focus on the present. Regarding the past, he remarked that a memory which [...]

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Authentic or Apocryphal? Does it even matter?

Sunday, January 3, 2010

In one of the discussions with Swami Tyagananda during the fall semester, we discussed whether the Ramayana & Mahabharata were historically accurate. Did Rama really kill a ten-headed demon Ravana? Did Draupadi really have an infinite sari? Or was it merely a figment of Vyasa’s imagination?
More importantly, are the answers to these [...]

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