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Resting in Brahman

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Every Friday afternoon, a small group of us meet at the Kennedy School to read the Bhagavad-Gita under the guidance of Swami Tyagananda Ji. We cover one chapter every week. The text of the chapter anchors our conversation, but doesn’t limit it. This entry is my first attempt to put in text some of the [...]

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Question of the Week: Are Hindu Epics Literature, History, or Scripture?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Ram Navami was this past Friday, and for that reason, Swami Tyagananda spoke of “The Story of Rama” this weekend during the Sunday service in the Vedanta Society. During his lecture, he brought up an interesting point — there are many ways to view the Ramayana (and Mahabharata). Ravi mentioned a few of these in [...]

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Detachment, attachment, and your loved ones

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

In my most recent post, I wrote about the potential for reconciling the different meanings of love, focusing on whether or not romantic love can be thought of as helpful in our spiritual quests.
Based on this idea, and based on Aneesh and Madhura’s comments, I have a somewhat related question: To what extent, if any, [...]

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