9 - Pure Intelligence and Discerning Wisdom: Precious Tools in Spiritual Life | Swami Tattwamayananda
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Verses: 16, 18, 51, 375, 424, 472, 517, 518
-The most significant problem in spiritual life is the lack of a discerning mind.
-Dispassion and spiritual awareness are essential in spiritual life, just as two wings are necessary for a bird to fly in the air.
-The problem of spiritual slumber and the need for spiritual awakening
-The need to develop a natural capacity to instinctively avoid wrong associations
-Re-capitulation of the seven questions (verse: 51, class 3)
-Going beyond desire, egotism and mind-functions
-‘Krtartha’(कृतार्थता) and ‘Krtakrtyata’ (कृतकृत्यता) in life
-The disciple's final salutations to the teacher
Verses: 145, 142, 143, 138
- King Parikshit's story
- Unexpected traps in spiritual life
- The ocean of worldliness: birth, disease and death
- Controlling the mind and the clear perception of the intellect
- How the supreme realization can be attained through disciplining the mind and...
Published 05/10/19
Verses: 320, 325, 326
-Evolution from idea/faith/concept to real experience
-How all delusions vanish with the dawn of Advaitic experience
-Need for constant vigilance and alertness in spiritual life
-The great statement ('Mahavakya'): 'TATTVAMASI' ( तत्त्वमसि) explained
-Analysis of the two...
Published 05/10/19