Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • 1.0 Introduction

    • 1.1 Setting an intention for this course

    • 1.2 Invocation prayers in the Upanishads

    • 1.3 How to meditate

    • 1.4 How to practice inquiry

    • 1.5 How to contemplate

    • 1.6 Humility

    • 1.7 Asking for guidance

    • 1.8 Invoking Transmission

    • 1.9 Into Manifestation

    • 1.10 How to make any spiritual truth experiential

    • Supporting Links
  2. 2

    • 2.0 Katha Upanishad text

    • 2.0 Meditative reading on Katha Upanishad

    • 2.1 Contemplating the text of the Katha Upanishad

    • 2.2 Devotional offering to the Divine

    • 2.3 Being given to Death

    • 2.4 The first boon: In Peace with the Universe

    • 2.5 The second boon: The fire sacrifice

    • 2.6 The third boon part 1: Temptations

    • 2.7 The third boon: Existence vs. nonexistence

    • 2.8 Good vs. Pleasant

    • 2.9 one pointedness on the Self

    • 2.10 OM

    • 2.11 Atman in the heart of all living creatures

    • 2.12 Discerning the Atman

    • 2.13 Faculties of mind

    • 2.14 Surrender
  3. 3

    • 3.0 Swami Satchidananda on the absolute reality

    • 3.0 Mandukya Upanishad text

    • 3.0 Invocation of Mandukya Upanishad

    • 3.1 Contemplating the Mandukya Upanishad

    • 3.3 Vaiśvānara (The four states part 1)

    • 3.5 Prājña (The four states part 3)