{"id":24151,"date":"2022-01-27T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/?p=24151"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T07:06:25","slug":"bhagavad-gita-fortnightly-class-discussion-feb-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/bhagavad-gita-fortnightly-class-discussion-feb-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad Gita Fortnightly Class\/ Discussion: Feb 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, February 4 &#8211; 7 to 8.45 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joining us in person?&nbsp;Please, out of consideration especially for our older members, we request you come only if fully vaccinated, use a mask and sign in with our QR code or form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From 7 pm<\/strong> at Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon NSW, for Meditation<br \/>\n<strong>OR From 7.30 pm<\/strong> join via &nbsp;ZOOM (Link):&nbsp; 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>Continuing Study of Chap 6, The Yoga of Meditation &#8211; Verses 43 &#8211; 45<\/p>\n<p><strong>THEME FOR DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Not Just a Physical Body:<\/strong> The ancient Yogis discovered the subtle body, the repository of our thoughts, feelings and experiences, our very character &#8211; which survives our bodily death, ready to unpack in a new body and appropriate circumstances for our continuing journey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beyond Dos and Don&#8217;ts:<\/strong> We are in search of truth. 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The late President of the Ramakrishna Order, the Swami was a world thinker and cultural ambassador for India, sponsored by the Government to travel to over 50 countries around the world giving lectures.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, February 4 &#8211; 7 to 8.45 pm Joining us in person?&nbsp;Please, out of consideration especially for our older members, we request you come only if fully vaccinated, use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24153,"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":[9,8],"tags":[1163],"class_list":["post-24151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-programs","category-member-organisations","tag-lectures-on-hinduism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151"}],"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=24151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24154,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151\/revisions\/24154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}