Course curriculum

    1. Textbook

    1. Concepts and Scriptures of Hindu Philosophy

    2. Sankhya, Purva mimamsa and Vedanta

    3. Yoga darsana in relation to other philosophies

    4. Ch 1 - Samadhi pada

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    5. Ch 2 - Sadhana pada (1-15)

    6. Ch 2 - Sadhana pada (16-55)

    1. Ch 1 - Samadhi pada

    2. Ch 2 - Sadhana pada

    1. Ch 3 - Vibhuti pada

    1. Class 1

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    2. Class 2

    3. Note on Classes 3 to 15

    4. Class 3

    5. Class 4

    6. Class 5

    7. Class 6

    8. Class 7

    9. Class 8

    10. Class 9

    11. Class 10

    12. Class 11

    13. Class 12

    14. Class 13

    15. Class 14

    16. Class 15

    17. Class 16

    18. Class 17

    19. Class 18

    20. Class 19

    21. Class 20

    22. Class 21

    23. Class 22

    24. Class 23

    25. Class 24

    26. Class 25

    27. Class 26

    28. Class 27

    29. Class 28

    30. Class 29

About this course

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  • 40 lessons

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Meet your Teachers

Director - Jiva Institute of Vaishnava Studies Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji

Satyanarayana Dasa, born in 1954, was drawn to the spiritual traditions of his home country India since his childhood. After receiving a postgraduate degree in 1978 from IIT Delhi and working in the United States for four years, he returned to India. There he studied the formal systems of Indian philosophy known as Ṣaḍ-darśana under the direct guidance of his guru Śrī Haridāsa Śāstrī Mahārāja and Swami Śyāma Śaraṇa Mahārāja.

This education was taken up in the traditional manner for more than 25 years, while he dedicated himself as a practitioner of bhakti yoga. In 1991 he accepted the traditional Vaiṣṇava order of renounced life, bābājī-veṣa. His main focus has been with the works of Jīva Gosvāmī, particularly on translating the Ṣaṭ Sandarbhas, into English and commenting on them. He also earned four śāstric degrees, and received both a law degree and a PhD in Sanskrit from Agra University.

Satyanarayana Dasa is the director of the Jiva Institute of Vaishnava Studies in Vrindavan, India. He is a visiting professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In 2013 he was honored by the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, for his extraordinary contribution in presenting Vedic culture and philosophy, both nationally and internationally.

Edwin Bryant (Advaita dasa)

Edwin Bryant received his Ph.D in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University, where his thesis culminated in his first book: The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001). He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University where he teaches courses on Hindu philosophy and religion. He has published eight books, and authored a number of articles on the earliest origins of the Vedic culture, yoga philosophy, and the Krishna tradition. These include a Penguin World Classics translation of the story of Krishna’s incarnation, from its traditional source the Śrīmad Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Edwin’s translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) is specifically dedicated to contributing to the growing body of literature on yoga by providing insights from the major pre-modern commentaries on the text with a view to grounding the teachings in their traditional context. Edwin’s most recent published work is a sequel to this by the same publisher entitled Bhakti Yoga: Tales and Teachings from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). This work, too, seeks to ground the practices of bhakti in the traditional Krishna-centered framework of the Vrindavan devotional traditions.

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