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Om! Nondual love means unconditional love. Maturity is important for a love relationship. Free will and love. Means of knowledge. In the final stage you get rid of obstacles. Here you can find: Our website Our seminars Our online channels: … Continue reading →

Om! Karma yoga stage: Love of God becomes a discipline. Basic universal rules Moral dimension in this universe. Noninjury. Every human being has a different kind of nature. There is not one thing that isn’t God. What is karma yoga? … Continue reading →

Om! If you know that you are love every relationship is a love relationship. You want to seek love or do you want to have love seek you? If you know that you are love every relationship is a love … Continue reading →

In the satsang we create a sattvic atmosphere that makes it easier to focus on the knowledge. It is important to keep the knowledge active when the mind is rajasic or tamasic. When the values are assimilated the mind stays … Continue reading →

These values are qualifications for moksha. When you are spiritually stuck it’s probably because one or more spiritual values are only partially assimilated. When you are not up to the mark, pick a value and work on it for 1-2 … Continue reading →

1. Pride, Vanity, Conceit, Self-Glorification: Any form of hurt is due to pride, an inflated ego, one that is excessively attached to what it thinks it knows, believes, possesses or how it looks. When you expect other people to make … Continue reading →

How to overcome tamas? When you are rajasic and succesful you have no time to pay attention to yourself. Stuck in sattva. Danger of vanity and stop of growth. Verse 58: “Success is easier to attain by informal devotion than … Continue reading →

Free will. Making no choice and turning it over to ishvara. Issue of free will: what values are determining your use of free will? Those values are chosen by the gunas. If tamas predominates fear will inform your choices. If … Continue reading →

Trust in a guru? Manipulation and guru. Respect teachers with knowledge. Don’t hand over your trust to a teacher simply because you are suffering. If your heart is pure ishvara will give you the right guru. You should be able … Continue reading →

Revision of verses 38-43. Vedanta is a method that the teacher applies to your mind. You are always aware. Elimination of nonessential factors. Bliss in deep sleep. Do you stop existing when you go to sleep? Something that you can … Continue reading →

One achieves devotion through Satsang. Satsang builds a devotion habit. Make the worship of god a habit. Verse 38: However, the primary method by which one develops devotion is association with great souls, that means a free person of the … Continue reading →

Vedanta: means of knowledge based on the upanisads or knowledge that ends the quest for knowledge. Modern advaita teachers and qualifications. Arguments from satya viewpoint and from the mithya viewpoint. Example of Ramana Maharshi, his spiritual experience and the knowledge … Continue reading →

Verse 25: Advaita devotion is superior to karma yoga and jnana yoga. Verse 26: Vedanta is a means of knwoledge, non-dual love is the end. Verse 27: If you take credit for something that belongs to the Lord you won‘t … Continue reading →

The supreme person. Experiencing or being the self? Two orders of reality. You are never not experiencing yourself. Duality and Non-duality are not opposites. You can be and experience yourself at the same time. It is not necessary to get … Continue reading →

Verse 10: Elimination of nonessential desires: Worldly or emotional security, wanting to be recognized. Single goal is freedom. Active sense of renunciation is important. The only security is your self. Five stages of devotion: 1. Sakama Bhakti 2. Nishkama Bhakti. … Continue reading →

Swami Chinmayananda. Consciousness and matter. Four types of devotees: Devoted to god because of suffering. Spiritual materialism principle and Vedanta. Seeker of god or truth. Nondual devotee. The lower and the higher self. Krishna, Arjuna and the cosmic vision. Until … Continue reading →

Actions won’t remove ignorance. Actions and ignorance are not in conflict. Knowledge will remove ignorance. By sadhana you don’t remove the basic ignorance: I am the doer! Moksha is the negation of the doer. Actions don’t give lasting happiness. Verse … Continue reading →

Beginning of the verses of Narada’s Bhakti Sutras. Traditional versus modern style of teaching. Vers 1: Using intellect for justification is not useful. Devotion is directed to God. Treat the people around you as if they are God. Devotion is … Continue reading →

Recap of the last session. Freedom as the number one priority in life. Nondual bhakti is exclusive love of the self. To progress spiritually you have to commit yourself to the vedic tradition: work through all stages. Skipping of the … Continue reading →