Summarized by Bala Dhandapani :
Class started with Omkar, Prayer, Pranayama and Meditation.
Salient points from April 16th class were discussed, specifically from Gurudev’s videos:
- Incomplete feeling when goes after material pleasure, completeness can be felt when one pursues a spiritual path
- Discussion on Free Will
- Sastras give/show direction to attain Brahman, each one need to put the effort and realize directly.
Discussion on Meditation
- With practice one can attain “no thought state” during meditation,
- May get a glimpse of the thoughtless state during meditation, practice to extend the state.
- Brain is wired to have thoughts, hence it is tough to achieve the no thought state, but doable with practice.
- For beginners, Gurudev starts off with Introspection.
- Turiya State is a meditative state that exists throughout in the waking state, dream state and deep sleep state, but we do not realize it.
- Make meditation as part of Sadhana
- With Sadhana bad vibes will be removed
- If one tries, state of Samadhi can be achieved even in this lifetime, if not – it is a cumulative effort. All the efforts are not lost, can be achieved in the next birth.
Types of Karma
Sanchita karma – Sum of past karmas of jeevatma from previous births
Prarabdha Karma – karma that we are born with in this birth or those Sanchita karma that have fructified
Agami Karma – Consequences that we face in this life that does not fructify in this life time that will be carried over to the next life. (future)
When we truly surrender, all the mountains of Karma are wiped out by Bhagavan.
Bhagavan will support Shraddha and Sankalpa.
Exercise for the class (timing and team to be announced in subsequent classes)
- Who are the four types of devotees, does this categorization by the lord promote discrimination?
- Explain how the lord indicates support to any belief system or follower-ship ?
- What is Para Prakruthi and Apara Prakruthi ?
- Explain what is Maya and how we can traverse though it ?
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