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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18 - Turning the Mind into Our Friend | Swami Tattwamayananda
Chapter 2 Verses 64 - 65. The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on June 21, 2019.
-The path to inner peace and freedom
-प्रसाद:(Inner peace and tranquility) and प्रमाद: (delusion / ignorance) discussed
-The four inner disciplines to obtain inner tranquility and stability of mind
-Beyond attraction, aversion, and sorrows
-Shama and Dama further elaborated
-Two types of purification: the physical and the mental
-How the mind becomes the slave of the senses
-A deluded mind without a spiritual ideal compared to a ball falling down a ladder -further elaborated
-There is no stopping midway
-The ability to enjoy what we dislike
-Our spiritual liberation is our own responsibility
-The need for spiritual commonsense
-Restraining the senses means sublimation, not repression
-Attractions for what is obviously harmful and how to get rid of it
-Desire is both the cause and the effect of प्रमाद:
-Setting the right priorities
-The right ideal for conserving our energy resources
-Psychological and spiritual enslavement by the senses
-How the senses become bad friends and how they can be turned into good friends