{"id":25789,"date":"2022-12-07T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/?p=25789"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:18:17","slug":"bhagavad-gita-fortnightly-class-discussion-9-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/bhagavad-gita-fortnightly-class-discussion-9-december-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad Gita Fortnightly Class\/ Discussion &#8211; 9 December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Bhagavad Gita Discussion<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Date &amp; Time:<\/span> Friday 9 December, 7.00 &#8211; 8.45 pm <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Venue:<\/span> Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Speaker:<\/span> Pravrajika Gayatriprana<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Join us for Silent Meditation from 7 pm <\/strong><strong>or via Zoom from 7.30 pm:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/saradavedanta.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c510f3a725ec70468d42dceb&amp;id=a244cbcd97&amp;e=0a2f195a0c\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88434388900<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><em>Topics for Discussion:&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Chapter 8 &#8211; The Way to the Imperishable Brahman&nbsp; &#8211; Verses 17 &#8211; 18:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Time is Relative<\/span>:<\/strong> On this earth, we live in &#8216;terrestrial time&#8217;; time is measured on the scale of our rotating earth and its revolution around the sun. But our lives are just a fleeting second in the realm of the star-studded galaxies of space. This is the cosmic scale of Brahma&#8217;s (Hindu God of Creation) day and night.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Living in the Light of Truth:<\/strong><\/span> Daydreaming and the fantasy worlds of popular culture are&nbsp;welcome&nbsp;retreats from the hard realities of everyday life, but&nbsp;everyday life&#8217;s also&nbsp;a&nbsp;make-believe&nbsp;world of relative reality saturated with our dreams, obsessions and superstitions. The ancient philosophers implore us to &#8216;understand the whole truth about life&#8217; and make the best of our brief time here.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Unity in Apparent Diversity:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span>Just when humanity&#8217;s been linking up&nbsp;in unprecedented ways, just as our delving into sub-atomic and cosmic worlds has revealed an&nbsp;interconnectedness of all things,&nbsp;fractures are rising. Increasing knowledge hasn&#8217;t been matched by increasing wisdom. The challenge is for humanity to evolve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Bhagavad Gita:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nJoin our exploration of a spiritual classic that&#8217;s enriched cultures throughout Asia over the centuries and inspired leading figures in modern times from Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, and Aldous Huxley to astronaut Sunita Williams who took a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to the international space station.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re dipping into Swami Ranganathananda\u2019s 3 volume commentary: Universal Message of the Bhagavad Gita. 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<p><strong>For more details about us and our activities visit: the Vedanta Society of NSW Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/saradavedanta.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c510f3a725ec70468d42dceb&amp;id=bb2785015b&amp;e=0a2f195a0c\">Website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhagavad Gita Discussion Date &amp; Time: Friday 9 December, 7.00 &#8211; 8.45 pm Venue: Vedanta Hall, 15 Liverpool Road, Croydon Speaker: Pravrajika Gayatriprana Join us for Silent Meditation from 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25791,"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":[1148,39,236,7,9,63,586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bhagwat-gita","category-chaplaincy","category-hindu-council-chapters","category-community-engagement","category-events-programs","category-educational","category-hindu-ethics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789"}],"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=25789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25794,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789\/revisions\/25794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}