Tattvabodha
Class 1 July 31, 2014 | The struggle to become happy; Distraction and novelty; Desire prism; Perfect bubble bath; Pressure to become; Borrowed happiness; Get out of jail free card. | Download Audio |
Class 2 August 7, 2014 | Sentient toaster; Self-awareness, self-conclusion, self-inadequacy; Knot of the heart; Happiness triggers; Fire on the hill; Causeless joy; What bus do I catch? | Download Audio |
Class 3 August 14, 2014 | An inkling of freedom; Paperback knowledge; Puruṣārthāḥ – 4 pursuits; Drink ghee ’till you drop; Dharma – Just common sense; Ahiṃsā; Vāktapas; Locus of error; Thugs at dusk; Mumukṣutvam – My hair is on fire!; We are all Dorothy in the land of Oz; Green cheese moon; Believe? Experience? Create, acquire, transform, purify? Do I need wetter water? | Download Audio |
Class 4 August 21, 2014 | Our journey; Limited + limited = ?; The only search there is; A head over my shoulders; Attaining the attained; Six pramāṇa-s – How we know what we know; Body – a perceived thing; Did it rain?; If it quacks like a duck; An elephant in my hand; The 10th man; The end of my tether; When the teacher comes; Seeking denies the presence of the sought; What problem?; Ārṣa-dṛṣṭi = Guru-dṛṣṭi -> Śiṣya-dṛṣṭi; Holding up the mirror. | Download Audio |
Class 5 August 28, 2014 | Knower-known-means-knowledge; The power to veil and project; Indirect self-knowledge? There is no path; A curious predicament; Fiji Swami; Mangala Śloka; Who is the guru?; Parīkṣya lokān – Examining experience; Thinking in Sanskrit; Epistemological Jeopardy; Resolving into reality. | Download Audio |
Public Talks
The Meaning of Namaste May 1, 2014 | Reverential acknowledgment; Bag of bones; Where do the “I” and “You” land?; What separates us? Orders of reality; Undivided existence; Where do we meet? Recognition of the sacred; There is no other. | Download Audio |
ँ़ नमो भगवते दक्षिणामूर्तये मह्यं श्रियं मेधां प्रज्ञां प्रयच्छ स्वाहा ।।