Chapter 12 Verses 7 & 8 Mananam & Sadhana questions for Week 7

Question 1

Are my thoughts occupied by the divine? Introspect if your mind is absorbed in temporary things or if it can be steered towards a higher purpose.

Question 2

Is my intellect aligned? Analyze if your reasoning and decisions are guided by spiritual wisdom, or if they are driven by superficial, worldly pursuits.

Question 3

Can I sustain this focus? 

Question 4

⁠Practice making the Divine the center of your daily life, creating a consistent, habit of meditation or remembrance

Question 5

⁠Actionable Devotion: Rather than strict rituals, this verse emphasizes a mental and intellectual shift—a sincere, internal surrender.

Attaining self-awareness is the pinnacle of human achievement, and it's referred to as "Ishwara Darshana" - the realization of God.

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Chapter 12 Verses 5 & 6 Mananam questions for Week 6

 Question 1

If after practicing all the upasanas and bhakti prescribed in verses 5-6 things don’t improve in our lives, how do we explain that and react to it.

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Chapter 12 Verses 5 & 6 Sadhana questions for Week 6

 Question1

 In verse 5 what is the significance of the phrase dehavadbhiḥ (embodied) Lord Krishna uses?

Question2

How can we renounce all actions in Krishna? What is the mechanism by which we achieve this?

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Chapter 12 Verses 5 & 6 Sadhana questions for Week 5

Question 1

Did I practice seeing the Lord’s Vibhooti’s ?

Question 2

⁠Did I practice the chosen nectarine values that will make me dearer to the Lord?

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Chapter 12 Verses 5 & 6 Mananam questions for week 5

Question 1

We have a form, but we are not the form.

Question 2

Mind does not have a form, but we have a mind.

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Chapter 12 Verses 3 & 4 Sadhana questions for week 4

Question 1

Did I offer all actions of the day unto the Lord? (तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्)

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Chapter 12 Verses 3 & 4 Mananam questions for Week 4

 Question 1

 Deserve it and own it - this is the law in spiritual life. the deserving ones are called Adhikaris. What do you mean by Adhikaris?

Question 2

 ⁠The great sage Shankaracharya met his master when he was only eight. All he did was listen to his teachers' words, and he became a mighty sage by the age of eleven. What Sadhana can we attribute to him?

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