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Samkhya Karika Class 24 11162022.mp4
No full textThis class covered the material from the previous class (Class 23- Karika 17) and introduced the associated Karika, Number 18 whose translation reads: The plurality of the spirit is verily established from these three: (1) the individual allotment of birth, death, and the instruments (of cognition and action), (2) the non-simultaneity of activities, and (3) the diverse modifications of the three attributes (guṇas)
Samkhya Karika Class 18 09212022.mp4
No full textThe existence of the qualities of indistinguishability and the others (in the manifest and un-manifest) is established by their being constituted of three guṇas, and from the absence of their reverse. The existence of the un-manifest is established from the effects possessing the same attributes as the cause
Samkhya Karika Class 17 09142022
No full textSattva guṇa is alleviating and illuminating. Rajas guṇa is exciting and mobile. Tamas guṇa is heavy and obscuring. Their collective function is for a single purpose, like that of an (oil) lamp
Samkhya Karika Class 11 08032022.mp4
No full textThe effect is, in fact, existent [in its cause] because: (1) nonexistence cannot be produced, (2) the material (cause) is selected for the effect, (3) all effects cannot be produced from all causes, (4) a cause produces that of which it is capable, and (5) [the effect is] of the same nature as the cause
Samkhya Karika Class 05 06082022.mp4
No full textPerception, inference, and valid testimony are the three means of right cognition; all other means are included in these. Right cognition is the proof and the only means by which the provables are known
Samkhya Karika Class 15 083122.mp4
No full textPerception is the ascertainment (knowing) of the respective objects by the senses. Inference is declared to be of three kinds, and it is preceded by a knowledge of the mark (liṅga or indicator) and of that for which it is the mark (liṅgi). Valid testimony is the statements of trustworthy people and the Vedas
Samkhya Karika Class 03 05182022.mp4
No full textThe revealed is like the obvious means since it is linked with impurity, destruction, and excess. The means contrary to both and proceeding from the discriminative knowledge of the manifest, the un-manifest, and the cognizer (the spirit) is superior
Samkhya Karika Class 06 06222022.mp4
No full textPerception is the ascertainment (knowing) of the respective objects by the senses. Inference is declared to be of three kinds, and it is preceded by a knowledge of the mark (liṅga or indicator) and of that for which it is the mark (liṅgi). Valid testimony is the statements of trustworthy people and the Vedas
newergitaVII.pdf
No full textCommentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7 with significant discussion of asamshaya (asaṁśaya: असंशय - free of doubt) as well as Jnana ( jñāna: ज्ञान - knowledge ) and Vijnana (vijñāna: विज्ञान - lived knowledge or science)
Q&A with Babaji Youth Retreat 2006
Get PDFQuestions and answers with Babaji on a variety of subjects, including Sri Ram Ashram, Sanskrit names, dispassion, the paradox of truth, animals and liberation, Babaji's silence, living in the world, dispassion.The technique(s) mentioned may not constitute a complete instruction and the user is encouraged to seek competant instruction before beginning these practices