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Friday, February 16, 2024
Concepts of the Gita : A Starter Kit for College Students
Monday, September 11, 2023
Bird's-Eye View on the Gita as per Sadhak Sanjeevani [Gita Press]
Text Source : Sadhak Sanjeevani, Gita Press
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Q&A on पुरुष, प्रकृति and ईश्वर with Swami Chidananda
Swami Chidananda has been a speaker, writer, and teacher of spiritual topics for nearly four decades. He is the founder, trustee and chief resource person of FOWAI FORUM, a non-government organisation (NGO) engaged in dialogues on human values, promotion of spiritual studies, and serving all life forms. Born in 1957 in Kundapura (Udupi District, Karnataka), he received B.E. from Mysore University in 1980) and M.Tech. from IIT Madras in 1982. He served at Hindustan Computers (HCL) in hardware R&D for two years and also taught at Bangalore Institute of Technology for three years. He knows English, Kannada, Hindi, and Sanskrit. At the young age of 23, he was inspired by the uplifting discourses of his mentor Swami Chinmayananda. He served at Chinmaya Mission for 18 years (1984-2002) and later was at Krishnamurti Foundation India, Varanasi for 10 years (2003 – 2013). His thought evolved through coming in contact with the works of several great thinkers, notable among them being Ramana Maharshi and Jiddu Krishnamurti.
I got in touch with Swami Chidananda many years ago at IIT Delhi when I was the coordinator of the Vivekananda Study Circle there, and have had many very interesting and inspiring discussions with him on many topics related to Indian philosophy. This blog is an edited transcript of one such online discussion held with him on July 07, 2023.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Undecidable Questions in Indian Philosophy
Friday, March 17, 2023
Is killing animals for food a good idea?
Monday, February 13, 2023
Is India's secularism under threat?
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The Law of Karma
"As you sow, so shall you reap", is a popular English proverb, and is also commonly believed to be the essence of the law of Karma. If you do good Karma, good will happen to you. If you do bad Karma, bad will happen to you. But given how paradoxical life is, there is another Hindi proverb that says, "Neki kar, dariya mein daal", which means that you should not expect anything in return for the good you do to others. Its again a common belief that even if the person you helped does not give you anything in return, your good actions are being documented by some universal record keeper, and you will be adequately compensated for it in the long run. However, the paradox does not end here. There is also a concept of detachment in the Gita, which says that you have right to perform Karma, but have no right over the results generated by your Karma. So then, will I really reap as I sow?
Concepts of the Gita : A Starter Kit for College Students
Bhagavad Gita is a book that has been deeply transformative for hundreds and thousands of people around the world. However, almost all of th...
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Bhagavad Gita is a book that has been deeply transformative for hundreds and thousands of people around the world. However, almost all of th...
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'Life' is undoubtedly one of the biggest puzzles facing modern science. From physicists to philosophers, people from almost all wal...
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Swami Chidananda has been a speaker, writer, and teacher of spiritual topics for nearly four decades. He is the founder, trustee and chief r...