Swami Tattwamayananda’s class on Srimad Bhagavad Gita is held at the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco (founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1900) on Friday evenings in the First Universal Hindu Temple in the West (founded by Swami Trigunatitananda in 1905). Classes are held on Friday night at 7:30 pm. All are most welcome.The Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the most important spiritual classic of Hinduism.Swami Tattwamayananda, currently the Minister of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco, (originally founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1900) served in various centers of the Ramakrishna Order in India as editor, publisher, and teacher of Sanskrit, Advaitic texts such as Sri Shankaracharya's commentaries on the 'Prasthanatraya' (the fundamental Sanskrit texts of Vedanta philosophy), Buddhism and Indian philosophy. He underwent traditional training in Hindu scriptures, Sanskrit, Vedic and Vedantic literature for many years, from his early days...
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1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda
The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on February 01, 2019.
-Emerson: an example of the universal appeal of the Bhagavad Gita.
-Sir Warren Hastings's introduction to the first English translation Bhagavad Gita is referred to.
-Lord Krishna answers the questions every refined, cultured, human being would ask.
-Our quest for contentment: Psychology of spiritual contentment
-Problems of success
-The solution
-Efficiency minus workaholism
-Psychological/spiritual explanation of mental blocks – the conflict between mind/desire and intellect/will
-Combination of action and contemplation
-Mahabharata and the Gita as part of it.
-Karma yoga: professionalism + link to a higher ideal – the opposite of workaholism
-Freedom from psychological enslavement