June 21, 2019 • 61 mins
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
-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
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