Satsang (Q&A) with Swami Tadatmananda, 28 Jan 2024

Weekly satsang at Arsha Bodha Center for local and online students. Send your questions to [email protected]. Please include your location and indicate "Satsang Question" in the subject line. 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:25 How can we draw the line between work as karma yoga and workaholism? 0:08:56 What happens to the karma-phala of actions performed after enlightenment? 0:17:20 Why pray for sukha when Vedanta asks us to accept the inevitability of both sukha and dukha? 0:22:03 Could Vedanta be studied just as a philosophy? 0:25:07 Why is there a huge gap between how science and Advaita Vedanta view Consciousness? 0:35:43 Did Pujya Swami Dayananda teach that the experience of nirvikalpa samadhi is not necessary for enlightenment? 0:45:55 If knowledge alone can lead to self-realization, what is the utility of practices such as yoga, bhakti, and karma? 0:50:40 How can I confirm that I know that I am Satchitananda Atma? 0:58:15 In the assertion “Consciousness reveals what is in your mind to you” what is the referent of the pronoun you? 1:02:56 Is it a “manufacturing defect” that we are ignorant of our true nature? 1:05:38 In Sri Shankara’s Nirvana Shatakam what is the meaning of chit in the phrase “chitthaani naaham”? 1:08:30 Why did purusha separate from prakriti?

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