{"id":23961,"date":"2021-11-08T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/?p=23961"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:09:47","slug":"dialogue-with-death-katha-upanishad-lecture-series-final-talk-14-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/dialogue-with-death-katha-upanishad-lecture-series-final-talk-14-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue with Death &#8211; Katha Upanishad Lecture Series &#8211; Final Talk &#8211; 14 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sunday 12 November from 10.45 am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Final talk in a monthly lecture series from April to November 2021<\/p>\n<p>Join us in Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon, NSW or live via Zoom from 11 am:<\/p>\n<p>ZOOM (Link):<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88634914266?pwd=c2l3OHcrbnUwS1FjQUVtRi9FOUNwdz09\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88634914266?pwd=c2l3OHcrbnUwS1FjQUVtRi9FOUNwdz09<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10.45 am &#8211; Meditation in Vedanta Hall<\/p>\n<p>11 am &#8211; Talk\/ PowerPoint Presentation by <strong>Pravrajika Sridharaprana<\/strong>, a senior nun of the Ramakrishna Order<br \/>\nQ &amp; A\/ Discussion<\/p>\n<p><strong>THEME: Tree of the World &#8211; Part 2. Chapter 6 of the Katha Upanishad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian mythology presents the striking image of an upside-down peepal tree. The taproots, depicted as stretching to the sky, are above the world of time, nourished in Brahman&#8217;s unified, eternal world.<\/p>\n<p>The branches below dig their way into the everyday world of diversity, their growth prompted by the consequences of human action. The &#8216;Brahman&#8217; root is also called &#8216;prana&#8217; &#8211; which sustains creation. The tree also represents the degrees of realisation in our spiritual evolution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more in the talk this Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katha Upanishad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THROUGH the story of a confrontation between the fearless child, Nachiketa, and the all-powerful Yama, God of Death, this favourite Upanishad raises compelling issues.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I? What dies? What is left? Are we here merely to be torn away from everyone and everything? What are we to do &#8211; while alive &#8211; about the inevitability of death?<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 12 November from 10.45 am Final talk in a monthly lecture series from April to November 2021 Join us in Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon, NSW or live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1163],"class_list":["post-23961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-programs","tag-lectures-on-hinduism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23965,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961\/revisions\/23965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}