{"id":24025,"date":"2021-12-15T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T00:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/?p=24025"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:53:42","slug":"spiritual-evening-discussion-17-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/spiritual-evening-discussion-17-december-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Evening Discussion &#8211; 17 December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Friday 17 December<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From 7 pm<\/strong> at Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon, for Meditation<br \/>\n<strong>OR From 7.30 pm<\/strong> join via \u00a0ZOOM: https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88434388900<\/p>\n<p>Group discussion led by <strong>Pravrajika Gayatriprana<\/strong>, a senior nun of Sri Sarada Math of the Ramakrishna Order.<\/p>\n<p>In this final Friday night discussion for 2021, we&#8217;ll complete discussing themes of last week&#8217;s <strong>Bhagavad Gita discussion &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0delving into the intriguing themes of reincarnation and karma &#8211; and conclude the year reflecting on the teachings and experiences of several Christian Mystics.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory of Nyassa, Isaac the Syrian and Hadewijch of Brabant share their thoughts on The Soul&#8217;s Exertion, Pure Meditation and Self Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Bhagavad Gita Discussion, Chap 6 &#8211; Yoga of Meditation &#8211; Verses 40-42<br \/>\nThemes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Impulses from the Past:<\/strong> Can genetics explain away the differing tendencies and abilities found in one family? Vedanta says we&#8217;re born with latent interests and skills garnered from many lives. But if we&#8217;ve been here before, how is it we can&#8217;t remember our previous lives? What&#8217;s to wonder at that, the sages say. How much do we remember from this life?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Atmosphere of Yoga:<\/strong> What if we stray from the path of Yoga\u00a0through\u00a0lack of zeal or distraction? Nothing is lost, we&#8217;re assured. We&#8217;ll get a &#8216;reset&#8217; born into circumstances helpful for our spiritual path.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Join the discussion<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 17 December From 7 pm at Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon, for Meditation OR From 7.30 pm join via \u00a0ZOOM: https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88434388900 Group discussion led by Pravrajika Gayatriprana, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24027,"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":[8],"tags":[1163],"class_list":["post-24025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-member-organisations","tag-lectures-on-hinduism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025"}],"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=24025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24026,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025\/revisions\/24026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}