DiscoverBhagavad Gita | The Essence of Vedanta1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda
1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda

1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda

Update: 2019-02-013
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The lecture was given by Swami Tattwamayananda on February 01, 2019.
-Emerson: an example of the universal appeal of the Bhagavad Gita.
-Sir Warren Hastings's introduction to the first English translation Bhagavad Gita is referred to.
-Lord Krishna answers the questions every refined, cultured, human being would ask.
-Our quest for contentment: Psychology of spiritual contentment
-Problems of success
-The solution
-Efficiency minus workaholism
-Psychological/spiritual explanation of mental blocks – the conflict between mind/desire and intellect/will
-Combination of action and contemplation
-Mahabharata and the Gita as part of it.
-Karma yoga: professionalism + link to a higher ideal – the opposite of workaholism
-Freedom from psychological enslavement
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1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda

1 – Introduction: Mahabharata, the Great Sanskrit Classic | Swami Tattwamayananda

Vedanta Society, San Francisco