Namaste everyone, Wish you all a very happy and healthy new year. We started this morning with beautiful Surya Namaskar sadhana where we offered our reverence and gratitude to the Sun God ( hiraṇmayena pātreṇa ), Sage Patanjali (Yōgēna cittasya), Swami Vivekananda (Each soul is potentially divine…), Guru RaghuramJi and other gurus. All these gurus have provided us with authoritative source of knowledge (āgamāḥ) over the years and centuries. Sage Patanjali talks about how the knowledge we acquire can affect our mind (vrittis). The knowledge we acquire through various means is classified by Patanjali into five types (PYS 1.6) a) Right knowledge b) Wrong knowledge c) Imaginary knowledge d) Remembered knowledge (memory) e) No knowledge (sleep). This knowledge can lead to pleasurable or painful experiences and the objective always is to reduce or eliminate any wrong knowledge (eg. fake news, non-authoritative sources). These pleasurable and painful exp...
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