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2021 & 2022 Full Vedanta Set

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Everything you need for a comprehensive, serious study of Advaita Vedanta. An updated collection of all seminar videos of 2021 and 2022 takes you on a step-by-step journey from foundational teachings to advanced Upanishadic texts:

1. Foundational & Basic Teachings

Begin your journey with the fundamental frameworks of self-inquiry, outlining the basic overview of the entire process.

(1) Basic Teaching – Tattva Bodh PDF (Shankaracharya)

(2) The Fire of Self Knowledge – Atma Bodh (Shankaracharya) – Includes the 2022 Belgium retreat

(3) Direct Realization – Aparokshanubhuti (Shankaracharya)

(4) The Power of Know – Patanjali Yoga and Vedanta – Mundo Sundaram (October 2022) & Reigate (May 2022)

2. Applied Yoga and Integration

Explore how the values of yoga, the gunas, and devotion integrate into non-dual realization.

(5) The Yoga of Three Energies – Knowledge of the Three Gunas – Mundo Sundaram (November 2021) & Bad Meinberg (2022)

(6) The Yoga of Love – Cologne 2022 & Amsterdam 2022 retreats

(7) Love and Knowledge of God – Bhagavad Gita Chapters 7–18 (Veda Vyasa) – Trout Lake 2022

3. Advanced Texts & Inquiry into Existence

Delve deeper into advanced texts analyzing the nature of reality, existence, and discrimination.

(8) The Existence Teaching – Panchadasi (Vidyaranya) – Trout Lake 2021

(9) Who Sees Through the Eyes? – Kena Upanishad – Webinar 2021

(10) You are Perfect As You Are – Kaivalya Upanishad

(11) The Vision of Non-duality – Sat Darshanam (Ramana Maharshi) – Berlin 2022

4. Ultimate Non-Dual Realization (The Upanishads)

Master-level teachings focusing on the highest truth of non-origination.

(12) Non-Origination Teaching – Mandukya Upanishad – Webinar February 2022 & Oss Netherlands 2022

(Bonus) Mundaka Upanishad

Crown Jewel of Discrimination – Vivekachoodamani (Shankaracharya) – Webinar 2021

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Yoga of Three Energies (Audio + eBook)

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Unlock the Path to Mastering your Mind with Yoga of the Three Energies. By combining the 163-page eBook with the 8-hour and 17-minute Audiobook, you engage in a “brain-friendly” study experience designed perfectly for modern life. This dual-format approach allows for better retention and deeper integration, all in one exclusive bundle for just $20.

Yoga of Love (Audio + eBook)

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Unlock the Path to Self-Love with The Yoga of Love, a transformative exploration into the nature of reality and unconditional happiness. By combining the 186-page eBook with the 7-hour and 41-minute Audiobook, you engage in a “brain-friendly” study experience designed for better retention and deeper integration. All this for just 20 Dollars.

Essence of Enlightenment (Audio + eBook)

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Unlock the Science of Consciousness Essence of Enlightenment offers a deep, transformative exploration into the mechanics of the mind. By combining the 265-page eBook with the 11-hour and 39-minute Audiobook, you engage in a “brain-friendly” study experience. This dual-format approach allows for better retention and deeper integration, designed perfectly to fit the rhythm of modern life.

What Is the Body?

Admin — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 02:46:53 +0000

This third and final book of the Enlightened Lifestyle series continues the explorations begun in book one, The Basics of Self-Inquiry, and book two, Lifestyle Solutions, investigates the nature of the body and proposes a knowledge-based approach to taking care of it with reference to the gunas. Although there is no one rule that fits all regarding diet and lifestyle, we need to understand the laws that run the Field of Life and live according to them, as well as according to our own nature, or we suffer. Taking into consideration both the microcosmic (personal) and macrocosmic (impersonal) perspective helps us to understand the environment so that we can maximize health and peace of mind. Understanding how the forces in the Field work, and realize how programmed we are and why, helps us to make more informed choices.

Lifestyle Solutions

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In this second book of the Enlightened Lifestyles series, we explore the areas of life that most people find challenging in some if not in many ways, and investigate the topic of each chapter: relationships; gender roles and sex; associations; family; money; food; entertainment, leisure and recreation; devotional practices; work, home and the environment; personal and mental cleanliness; and parenting. We offer solutions to the main problems in light of the teachings on non-duality presented in the first volume of this series, The Basics of Self-Inquiry.

The Basics of Self-Inquiry

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Vedanta has one agenda: happiness is good and suffering is not necessary, and the only way to actualize it is through knowledge, not experience. If peace of mind and freedom from suffering is what motivates you, you may be ready for Self-inquiry into your state of mind, the factors that condition it and how that relates to an identity you never considered you have: that of the non- dual unlimited knower or witness of the limited personal identity you have thus far taken to be the truth about you.

Aparokshanubhuti – VIDEO

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Aparokshanubhuti is a beautiful 8th century text commonly attributed to Shankaracharya. The literal meaning of aparoksha is, ‘that which cannot be known through the mind and senses,’ the implication of which is, ‘the self.’ Anubhuti literally means ‘experience’ but since it used in reference to the self, which is not an object of experience, the implied is ‘direct or immediate knowledge.’ Therefore, Aparokshanubhuti means, ‘direct knowledge of the self.’ As do most Vedanta texts, it begins by unfolding the qualifications required for self-knowledge. It then proceeds to carefully discuss ignorance—the cause of bondage—as well as inquiry, the means to remove ignorance and thereby attain liberation (moksha). This text is particularly interesting because the final verses convert the experiential language of Yoga into the Vedantic language of knowledge. In this video series, James masterfully unfolds this essential Vedanta text.

SPECIFICATIONS: 7 VIDEOS. RECORDED IN PORTLAND, OREGON 2011.

Sample: Part 1

We Can’t Become Who We Are

Admin — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:44:29 +0000

Edwin Faust’s commentaries on Ramana Maharshi’s, Essence of the Teaching, which presents the teaching on karma, the insentient principle, and Isvara, the sentient creator, sustainer and destroyer of the world. Without knowledge of Isvara, liberation is virtually impossible.

The Fire of Self Knowledge ~ Atma Bodha ~ Ebook

Admin — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:44:28 +0000

A beautifully illustrated book of James’ commentaries on Shankaracharya’s prakrana text, Atma Bodh, which presents Vedanta’s teaching methodology with many excellent simple poetic meditation verses that make it easy to understand the basic concepts.