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The Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita
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Summer of 1974
This remarkable collection of tapes by Ram Dass was recorded at a workshop at the opening of Naropa Institute in the summer of 1974. It represents Ram Dass' core teaching on the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's essence spiritual texts.
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Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita ...SPECIAL! $150 The famous Naropa lecture series on
which Paths to God was based is now available in re-mastered, re-edited CD
format. This remarkable series features all of Ram Dass' lectures on the
teachings of the Gita and the way they can be brought alive in our own
spiritual journey.
THE ENTIRE SERIES...
THE YOGAS OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA
(June 11th, 1974 thru July 11th, 1974)
ORDER THE ENTIRE SERIES AND RECEIVE A $24 DISCOUNT ON THESE CASSETTES--AND A FREE BOOKSHELF ALBUM.
18 CASSETTES * 26 HRS. or 18 CD-R Album
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INTRODUCTION:
(June 11, 1974)
Course focus on karma yoga and bhakti yoga ... predicament in teaching the Gita ... pure transmissions ... rituals ... reinvesting Spirit by becomming it ... Gita as living experience ... stages in the evolution of consciousness ... identifying with a different plane of reality ... emptiness ... creating your own universe ... making life a vehicle ... experiencing the Gita ... identifying with Arjuna and identifying with Krishna.
90 minute cassette
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CONTEXT AND CONFLICT:
(June 13, 1974)
The context of the Gita ... Arjuna's conflict: morality, breakdown of tradition ... awakening of consciousness ... no forms ... facing Shiva ... moral values ... killing and loving ... when to make the effort to change? ... what difference does the illusion make? ... the destructive urge ... if it's illusion, why not get it over with ... what is Ram Dass doing on other planes?
90 minute cassette
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KARMA AND REINCARNATION:
(June 15, 1974)
Krishna's strategies with Arjuna ... ways to know inner wisdom ... Christianity and reincarnation ... psychological thought and reincarnation ... deja vu ... time span of reincarnation ... Tibetan tradition of reincarnation ... collective unconscious ... continunity of karma ... what am I doing here? ... action without attachment ... paradox of free will and determinism ... Arjuna's karma ... you are a process.
90 minute cassette
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KARMA YOGA:
(June 18, 1974)
Dharma and adharma ... sadhana ... forces of nature ... studying oneself ... the Tao ... harmony and disharmony ... karma as lawful relationship ... coming to union ... action and inaction ... sensing the workings of karma ... using the desire for liberation ... surrendering into dharma ... finding dharma ... the trap of tuning in to dharma ... the place of merit ... working with attachments from the past ... working of karma ... who is reincarnated?
90 minute cassette
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KARMA AND JNANA YOGAS:
(June 20, 1974)
Levels of karma yoga ... work as upaya ... non-attachment ... money ... differentiating the real from the unreal ... vehicle of the intellect ... work and wisdom ... Theravadin Buddhism ... projected perception ... wisdom and the witness ... Atman and Brahman ... knowing and being ... intellect and intuition ... ambition ... using relative knowledge ... shedding veils ... using the intellect ... Zen koans and paradoxes.
90 minute cassette
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JNANA YOGA:
(June 22, 1974)
Telling the truth ... using the mind ... slide projector metaphor ... methods as traps ... methods for using the mind ... models have to go ... meaning of worldly desires ... he who knows and he who doesn't ... discontinunity ... Brahman ... intuition and wisdom ... devotion and cynicism ... sharpening the intuition ... karma of people coming together ... meaning of illusion ... collective unconscious ... mistaken judgements ... satisfaction.
90 minute cassette
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BRAHMAN:
(June 25, 1974)
Formless and form ... the cessation of mind ... predicament of talking about Brahman ... Brahman without attributes ... conceptualizing Brahman ... omniscience ... freedom ... transcending the gunas ... stance of the Bodhisattva ... compassion ... karma yoga understood from the perspective of the Brahman ... detachment and suppression ... karma and the fall of man ... raising children ... the injunction not to kill and Arjuna's predicament ... kriya yoga.
90 minute cassette
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SACRIFICE AND MANTRA:
(June 27, 1974)
Love in mystical literature ... merging ... sacrifice as daily action ... interrelatedness ... sacrifice is oneself ... desire to sacrifice ... knower and knowing ... freedom from karma ... experiencing Brahman ... ritual ... sixth chakra ... mantra---vibration, repetition ... tuning ... sound and creation ... body as vibration ... power of mantra investment ... power mantras ... working with mantra ... stages ... visualizations.
90 minute cassette
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RENUNCIATION AND PURIFICATION I:
(June 29, 1974)
Gita on purification ... detachment of senses from "proper" objects ... processes to aid detachment, deepen meditation ... Gandhi on sex ... extrication from attachment to suffering ... irrelevancy of better and worse ... Maharajji on the essence of tapasya ... fasting ... living simply ... consecrating food ... Jack Kornfield: Buddhist meditations on food; food as a process; food and mindfulness ... Joseph Goldstein: mindful eating.
90 minute cassette
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RENUNCIATION AND PURIFICATION II:
(July 2, 1974)
Meister Eckhart ... development of intuition about our predicament ... conceptualized models of ourselves: psychological roles, astral configurations, chakras ... Muktananda and shakti power ... movement toward higher wisdom ... purification as essential element ... mantra secrecy ... Ten Commandments and fear ... Brahmacharya ... non-lusting and sexual tantra ... playing with desires ... chanting: "He's Got The Whole World...."
2 Cassettes * 2 1/2 hours
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DEVOTION AND THE GURU:
(July 4, 1974)
Bhakti ... heart ... faith ... dualism vs. non-dualism ... opening the heart ... the way of the unmanifest ... fear of opening ... rapture ... love and coercion ... love and freedom ... times of despair ... love as sadhana ... concept of a supreme ... function of a Guru ... need for a Guru ... recognizing a Guru ... Gurus and teachers ... Gurus and powers ... meditation on a Guru ... the inner Guru ... levels of witness ... chanting: "Aarti," "Sri Ram."
2 - 90 minute cassettes
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SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SADHANA:
(July 6, 1974)
Individual differences ... social perceptions ... levels of seeing ... marriage ... letting go ... the One behind it all ... responsibilities ... nothing is chance ... anger ... ferreting out models ... cosmic joke ... lonliness vs. aloneness ... meditation ... good and evil ... self-pity ... the trap of meditation ... advertising ... seeing oneself in others ... Maharajji as Hanuman ... psychedelics and chakras ... peyote.
90 minute cassette
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DYING:
(July 9, 1974)
Death ... the illusion we're caught in ... psychedelics and the change in the perception of death ... Tibetan Book of the Dead ... Banares, city of death ... mental stages before death ... dying before you die ... centers for dying ... exploring feelings ... the nurse's diary ... Buddhist meditation ... only forms die ... cultural traditions ... when Maharajji died ... heaven and hell ... effect of desires after death ... the bardos ... being without desire at the moment of death.
2 Cassettes * 2 1/2 hours
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CONCLUSION:
(July 11, 1974)
LSD and the emergence of yoga in America ... perfection ... motivation for sadhana ... sacrifice and renunciation ... devotion ... becomming a statement of dharma ... mindfulness ... falling out of grace ... being one's self ... responsibility and dependency ... the Divine Mother ... relieving suffering ... different qualities of experience ... where is Maharajji? ... suicide ... why alleviate suffering? ... the function of pain ... marriage.
2 - 90 minute cassettes
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THE ENTIRE SERIES...
THE YOGAS OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA
(June 11th, 1974 thru July 11th, 1974)
ORDER THE ENTIRE SERIES AND RECEIVE A $24 DISCOUNT ON THESE CASSETTES--AND A FREE BOOKSHELF ALBUM.
18 CASSETTES * 26 HRS.
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