Recorded on 8 June 2025 with US participants
0:00 Intro
0:24 What is wisdom and how can we acquire it?
1:55 How would wisdom be different from knowledge?
2:53 Is wisdom all about finding peace and contentment?
4:30 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 1 – change is inherent in the forms that exist.
5:53 Realising the impermanence of everything.
6:58 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 2 – there is no ‘other’ to be attached to.
9:13 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 3 – neither desiring anything nor grieving the loss of anything.
11:41 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 4 – one is free who sees that joy and pain, birth and death arise simply as a result of previous actions.
16:00 When you meditate and become quiet you will be able to see a higher consciousness power working in the running of everything.
20:35 Ultimately, do you have to rise above all imaginations to be at peace?
21:35 Is the law of karma directing the manifest existence?
22:35 Within the mind, you have to rise beyond action?
23:35 Parabrahman, the Divinity beyond imaginations.
27:23 To have peace, either surrender to the fact that it is all god’s wishes or if you have desires, put in efforts and accept the results as they come.
33:12 “You undertake actions due to what comes to the mind, when the results come also, you are helpless and you have to accept.”
40:56 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 5 – Suffering in the world is born only in the mind’s imagination.
45:44 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 6 – “I am not this body, nor is this body mine, I am pure consciousness.. ..resting in that state of oneness”
51:03 Is it correct to say that truth of existence is always present, only the illusion that I am an individual entity disappears?
51:30 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 7 – “I am All, from the creator down to the blade of grass. The one who knows this rests free of imaginations, pure, at peace.”
53:28 Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 11, verse 8 – “That one who sees that this whole manifold created universe is just imaginations, then knows themselves as that self-existent pure consciousness, utterly free from desires and attains peace.”
55:23 Is it the thoughts that make the mind impure or the attachment to the thoughts?
55:33 Should we contemplate and mentally think about how we are not this body, but this pure consciousness?
1:00:49 We have to get rid of the thoughts and to get rid of the thoughts we have to dis-engage from thinking?
