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Yoga Wisdom with Acharya das
by Acharya das
Become happier, more peaceful and fulfilled through Yoga Wisdom. Gain a new look at life through a more spiritual lens. Acharya Das has taught yoga wisdom to appreciative audiences for over 40 years. He has an uncommonly deep understanding of yoga philosophy and practices, conveying that message in a clear and simple way while encouraging everyone to develop a daily meditation practice.
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#308 Bhagavad-Gita: A Guide for Life — Part 6 of 6
The Path of Surrender What does it really mean to surrender? To many people, surrender sounds like defeat—giving up control, becoming passive, or allowing someone else to dictate your life. But the Bhagavad-gita presents something very different. At the conclusion of His teachings to Arjuna,...
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#307 Bhagavad-Gita: A Guide for Life — Part 5 of 6
The Supreme Person: Who is Krishna? What if the friend we have been searching for has been with us all along? An ancient Vedic analogy describes two birds sitting together in the same tree. One bird is constantly trying to enjoy the fruits of the tree—sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter. It...
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#306 Bhagavad-Gita: A Guide for Life — Part 4 of 6
The Mind: Friend or Enemy Who is actually running your life—you, or your mind? The mind is constantly talking to us. I want this. I don't like that. I'm worried about this. I need to do that. What will people think of me? And very often, we simply follow where it leads. And we're often told:...
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#305 Bhagavad-Gita: A Guide for Life — Part 3 of 6
Karma, Duty, Detachment, acting without entanglement Can you live in this world, fulfill your responsibilities—and still become spiritually free? Arjuna thought the answer might be no. Faced with the terrible consequences of battle, he wanted to walk away from everything—to renounce his duty and...
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#304 Bhagavad-Gita: A Guide for Life — Part 2 of 6
The soul beyond the body – Who am I really? In the continuation of this series from a retreat, the question raised is what do you do when you genuinely don’t know what the right thing to do is? Arjuna stood on the battlefield of Kurukshetra facing an impossible choice. On one side was his duty.…
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#303 Bhagavad-Gita: A Guide for Life — Part 1 of 6
The Battlefield within. We spend so much of our lives trying to become secure, happy and fulfilled. Yet everything we normally depend upon—our bodies, possessions, relationships and circumstances—is constantly changing. So are we looking for lasting happiness in a place where nothing lasts? The...
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#302 Humility: A spiritual superpower?
Why does criticism hurt us so much? Often, it’s because we want the opposite: honour, approval and validation. And the more we depend upon one, the more vulnerable we become to the other. Ancient yoga wisdom offers another possibility — humility. Not weakness. Not low self-esteem. Not allowing...
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#301 Self-Love - Is it even possible?
Can you really love yourself? Or is the whole idea built on a misunderstanding of who you are? Self-love has become one of the defining ideas of modern culture—but what if it can never deliver what it promises? Drawing on the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad-gītā and ancient yoga philosophy…
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#300 Sadhana - the benefits of regular spiritual practice
This is the sixth and final talk in a series on well-being, emphasizing that materialistic approaches to addressing wellbeing only provide temporary relief from unhappiness or suffering, rather than permanent solutions. True well-being requires incorporating spiritual solutions, as attempts to...
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#299 Where Can Real Peace be Found? – Q&A
This is the questions and answers that followed the previous talk, both from Glebe, Sydney and Thirroul which is south of Sydney. Chapters 00:00:15 Language, Consciousness, and Spiritual Identity 00:01:56 Three Pillars of Spiritual Practice 00:03:29 Confronting Spiritual Reality and Finding...
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#298 Where Can Real Peace be Found? – a yogic perspective
In a powerful and thought-provoking talk delivered in Sydney, Australia, Acharya das explores the dramatic transformation of human consciousness in the modern age and asks a confronting question: Why, despite unprecedented technological advancement and material comfort, are so many people...
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#297 Being a Victim of False Shelter
This talk is the fifth installment in a wellness series that takes a distinctly yogic approach to understanding life's challenges and spiritual development. Acharya das discusses the concept of "false shelter" (durashraya in Sanskrit) - the tendency to place unlimited trust in things that cannot...
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#296 Q&A - Dharma & Sanatan Dharma - is there a difference?
This is the Q&A from after the talk sponsored by the Hindu Council of Australia in cooperation with the Australian School of Meditation and Yoga. The question was whether there is a distinction between Dharma and Sanatana Dharma? Acharya das concludes this Q&A session with the clarification that...
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#295 Dharma & Sanatan Dharma - is there a difference?
This talk is from an event sponsored by the Hindu Council of Australia in cooperation with the Australian School of Meditation and Yoga. The question was whether there is a distinction between Dharma and Sanatana Dharma? Acharya das explained that while Dharma has conventional definitions…
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#294 The Driving Emptiness - filling the void
In this compelling fourth lecture of the series, Acharya das reframes well-being through the lens of timeless wisdom, drawing from sources like the Bhagavad Gita to reveal a powerful three-dimensional model: body, mind, and the often-overlooked spiritual self. With precision and clarity, the talk...
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#293 Trauma - A Spiritual Perspective - Turning Wounds into Wisdom
This is the 3rd talk in a Series on Wellness dealing with Trauma from a spiritual perspective. The two core premises presented in the discussion to help with a spiritual perspective is the Dharmic traditions understood that all pain and suffering will be somehow rooted in ignorance, and secondly,...
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#292 Taking Control - personal agency & why it matters
This is a talk on personal agency and spiritual well-being as Part 2 of a continuing series on Wellbeing. Personal agency is defined as "the individual's capacity to act intentionally, to make autonomous choices, and to influence their own circumstances and environment." But how free is our...
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#291 Burnout - a spiritual epidemic
Over the past 3yrs media reports have described Burnout as "the silent epidemic," "the silent killer," and "the silent epidemic stealing your energy and joy." A significant root cause of burnout is a lack of purpose, stating that when people feel their work/life output is not connected to any...
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#290 Self-Realization, God-Realization, and Love for God
This is quite a long talk, on a very fascinating topic, delivered by Acharya das in the Philippines. It is a comprehensive look into the question of spiritual identity, God-realization, and the resultant experience of the awakening of transcendental and ecstatic love for God which naturally…
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#289 Q&A Session - 2025 in Review - How did we do Spiritually?
This is a Q&A session from the Soul Searchers Retreat. Acharya das delivers a comprehensive discussion on spiritual life versus material life, emphasizing the fundamental distinction between material consciousness (identifying with the physical body) and spiritual consciousness (recognizing…
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#288 2025 in Review - How did we do Spiritually? – Part 1
Acharya das delivers a comprehensive talk on spiritual life and self-evaluation from the perspective of ancient Vedic traditions and yoga systems. This is the first of 2 talks at the annual New Year’s Soul Searchers Retreat in New Zealand. Acharya das explores a custom many people adopt around…
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#287 2025 in Review - How did we do Spiritually? - Part 2
This the second of 2 talks at the annual New Year’s Soul Searchers Retreat in New Zealand. Acharya das explores a custom many people adopt around the idea of wanting to do better in the new year, often by making new year’s resolutions. Doing better begins with an examination of how we did the...
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#286 Celebrating Christmas - a yogi’s perspective
In this talk, Acharya das explores the concept of Christmas from a yogic perspective. He begins by examining what Christmas means in contemporary society versus its original spiritual significance. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus (Yeshua), known as Christ or Messiah, which means "the...
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#285 The Yoga of Love
In this final lecture of the "Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita" series, Acharya das explores the concept of "the yoga of love" or bhakti yoga. He explains that bhakti yoga represents both a spiritual practice and the ultimate goal of all yoga practices. In considering this subject it is important to...
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#284 The Yoga of the Bhagavad-gita
Exploring the concept of yoga in the Bhagavad Gita, emphasizing that yoga extends far beyond the common understanding of just physical postures (asanas). He explains that the word "yoga" appears over 100 times in the Bhagavad Gita's 700 verses, highlighting its central importance to the text. The...
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#283 Q&A - Building a Meditation Habit - Your Key to a Spiritual Awakening
This is the Q&A portion of the preceding talk on Developing a Meditation Habit - Your Key to a Spiritual Awakening. Acharya das explores the nature of spiritual existence and consciousness, focusing on the concept that humans are spiritual beings inhabiting physical bodies. He discusses…
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#282 Building a Meditation Habit - Your Key to a Spiritual Awakening
Acharya das explores the concept of spiritual awakening through meditation, particularly focusing on the use of transcendental sound. He explains that spiritual awakening begins with recognizing that we are eternal spiritual beings temporarily occupying physical bodies, rather than identifying...
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#281 Meditation for Inner Peace and Balance
In this talk at an event in Melbourne, Australia, Acharya das explores the concepts of peace, balance, and inner fulfillment in modern society. The Bhagavad Gita's asserts that happiness cannot exist without peace. Most people’s experience is not a life of peace. Consumerism, social media, and...
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#280 Q&A - Finding Meaning and Purpose with Regular Meditation
This is the Q&A portion from the talk “Finding Meaning and Purpose with Regular Meditation” delivered in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
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#279 Finding Meaning and Purpose with Regular Meditation
From a spiritual perspective, the main driver of purposelessness is the absence of spiritual identity. We are eternal spiritual beings temporarily residing in physical bodies, but most people mistakenly identify themselves as their body or mind and therefore with the desires of the body and mind....
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#278 Can I know God?
This is a talk from the Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita series, exploring the possibility of knowing God from the Vedic perspective. Knowing God is indeed possible but requires a transformation of consciousness. Material consciousness is characterized by self-centeredness, whereas spiritual...
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#277 Part 2 - A Spiritual Awakening with Kirtan Meditation - Q&A
This is Q&A interaction with the audience from the previous talk where Acharya Das explores profound spiritual concepts from Vedic philosophy, focusing on meditation, reincarnation, self-realization, and the nature of consciousness. He emphasizes the transformative power of Kirtan meditation as a...
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# 276 A Spiritual Awakening with Kirtan Meditation
Namaste. This talk explores the experience of spiritual awakening through kirtan meditation, presented from a Vedic perspective. Acharya das discusses how humanity is largely asleep to their true spiritual nature, mistakenly identifying with temporary material bodies rather than recognizing...
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#275 Reincarnation: A Second Chance or Stuck on a Treadmill?
This talk on reincarnation takes a different angle from our earlier discussion in the Bhagavad-gita Wisdom Series. Last time, we explored how we came to have our present body. In this session, we shift the focus to discussing two common ideas about reincarnation — that it offers a second chance…
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#274 Journey of the Soul - Part 2 Q&A
This is the second part of a talk given in Adelaide, Australia. It is a Q&A session with the following questions: Q: You were talking earlier about every seven years, which I know of, that our cells die and are all renewed. But I've always thought of that as just being the physical body that's...
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#273 Journey of the Soul - A Meditative Path to Purpose
This is a talk from a 2025 Australian tour. In this talk Acharya das explores the concept of the soul and the journey of self-realization from a Vedic perspective. He explains that according to Vedic understanding, we don't "have" souls - we ARE souls, eternal spiritual beings temporarily…
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#272 Karma Yoga: Selfless Action in a Selfie World
In this talk we discuss Karma Yoga as a spiritual pathway in the context of a self-centered world. Self-centeredness is the enemy of self-realization and modern society's focus on the fulfillment of individual desires as being of paramount importance has led to unprecedented levels of…
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#271 More Questions & Answers - Brisbane Australia
This is the Q&A portion of a talk at the Mantra Room, Brisbane, Australia. The talk topic was the same as the previously posted talk "Everyone Dies but not Everyone Lives", but some interesting questions were asked following the talk.
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#270 Everybody Dies, but not Everybody Lives - How to stop existing and start truly living.
This is a talk at The Mantra Room on the Gold Coast, Australia, 22 June 2025. I approach this serious topic from the transcendental perspective, focusing on a spiritual understanding of death and what it means to live. In the condition of spiritual ignorance, one sees oneself as the temporary...
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#269 Enlightenment - Is It All One?
In this continuation of the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita series, we address the question “Is it all one?” examining whether various spiritual paths all lead to the same destination, and whether the goal of a spiritual undertaking is a singular experience or realization. We need to distinguish...
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#268 Is Living in an Ashram or Temple More Spiritual?
Many religious and spiritual traditions consider renunciation of the world important. But is living in an ashram or temple really more spiritual? We examine the fact that true spirituality is not determined by physical location or external appearances, but rather by one's consciousness and how…
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#267 The Yogic View of the Ego
This is a somewhat comprehensive discussion on the yogic view of the ego, particularly focusing on the concept of false ego (ahaṅkara) in Vedic philosophy. While the term 'ego' is commonly used by people in a derogatory sense (‘big ego’, or ‘inflated ego’ as examples), its Latin root simply means...
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#266 What is the Mind & Consciousness – solving the mysteries
In this continuation of the Bhagavad-gita Wisdom Series we discuss the complex topics of mind and consciousness from both scientific and yogic perspectives. Many scientists stubbornly insist that there is a single “energy” (the material energy) which exists and is perceivable by us. This idea,...
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#265 What is spiritual and What is not
This is a comprehensive discussion on the topic of 'what is spiritual and what is not' as part of an ongoing series on the Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita. There are common misconceptions about spirituality. The term 'spirit' is used in various contexts and while many things are labeled as spiritual, not...
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#264 Beyond Happiness & Distress – A Guide to Emotional Well-Being
This talk continues our Bhagavad-gita Wisdom Series with the topic: “Beyond Happiness & Distress – A Guide to Emotional Well-Being.” We explore two fundamental perspectives: • The materialistic view, which identifies the self with the body and mind. • The spiritual perspective, which sees the…
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#263 Is it Lust or Love?
This is such an important subject that needs to be shared even though there is not good quality video with this talk. Love, as a subject to be explored, is definitely challenging for many of us and the lack of a meaningful conversation about love and a meaningful definition of love is terribly…
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#262 Compulsion - Why Can’t I Control Myself?
In this series, we previously learned that everything that happens to me is caused by my own actions - my past actions, my current actions and my future acts. My desires determine my actions, which in turn affect my consciousness, which then determines my desires. It is a cycle, and breaking that...
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#261 Karma, Fate, and Destiny
Most people are intrigued by the question “what does the future holds for me?” Hence the popularity of horoscopes, tarot and psychic readings, palmistry, etc. This is because many are focused on what it is they may consider as “good” but are often blind to the “bad” that may also be coming....
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#260 Reincarnation - How we got this body
This is a continuation from the previous theme we explored in the Bhagavad Gita series, that you are not your body. Here we examine what is often called reincarnation, or more correctly, the transmigration of the spirit soul. There are many misconceptions surrounding this topic. It is not…
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#259 Transcendental Sound - Finding shelter, Finding love
This is a talk at Mantra Night about how Transcendental Sound provides refuge and shelter from all the turmoil and troubles that are part of material life. But more wonderful than this is how it can awaken us to the most extraordinary experience of spiritual love where the soul once again is…
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Become happier, more peaceful and fulfilled through Yoga Wisdom. Gain a new look at life through a more spiritual lens. Acharya Das has taught yoga wisdom to appreciative audiences for over 40 years. He has an uncommonly deep understanding of yoga philosophy and practices, conveying that message in a clear and simple way while encouraging everyone to develop a daily meditation practice.
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