Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 15 by Ira Schepetin
Introversion of the mind and the witness. Intellectual knowledge is not helpful. Discriminative wisdom comes only to bhaktas. Bhakti means love of god. Unless you turn your mind to him he won´t reveal...
3 Joulu 20191h 34min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 14 by Ira Schepetin
Discussion of the three states. The beauty of Vedānta is that it is based on common experience, not on mystical experience. Pūrṇa anubhava. 2 experiences: being aware of something or being not aware o...
26 Marras 20191h 15min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 13 by Ira Schepetin
Nirvāṇa–ṣaṭka. Morning remembrance prayer. Vedānta and modern science. No conflict between science and Vedānta. Science makes statements about the waking state. Vedānta is a subjective science: its ab...
19 Marras 20191h 2min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 12 by Ira Schepetin
Vedānta is not a business. The highest teaching of Vedānta. The method of Vedānta: deliberate superimposition for the purpose of teaching and negation of this teaching in the end. Mutual superimpositi...
12 Marras 201955min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 11 by Ira Schepetin
2 ways to get vairāgya: 1. seeing the defects of happiness from objects (it has a beginning and an end) 2. understanding that objects are not real. Bhagavad Gītā ch. 13, 7-11. Spiritual sadhana: devel...
5 Marras 20191h 11min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 10 by Ira Schepetin
Story about Swami Satchidanandendra and Kirtan. The concept of avidyā / ignorance. Best source is adhyāsa bhāṣya: Introduction to the commentary of Shankaracharya on the Brahma Sutras. 2 notions of ig...
29 Loka 20191h 29min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 9 by Ira Schepetin
Explanantion of the shloka Brahmanandam paramasukhadam. Shankaracharyas critique of other schools of thought. Knowledge as the solution to remove ignorance. 3 types of ignorance: 1. not knowing as the...
22 Loka 201954min
Intuition of Reality – Vedanta Talk 8 by Ira Schepetin
Review of the first two Shlokas of chapter 13 Bhagavad Gita Bhasya. Witnessing consciousness: unique teaching of Vedanta. Paramahamsa. Witnessing consciousness is identical with the supreme reality. A...
15 Loka 20191h 39min
