Yoga as a Science of Inner Transformation
A Talk by Ravi Ravindra
Friday, March 13; 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Instant Karma Yoga
61607 29 Palms Hwy #F
Joshua Tree, 92252
Located behind JTAG Gallery in the corner
One single lesson that can be gleaned from all the scriptures and sacred texts is: unless searchers undergo radical transformation of their whole being, they cannot come to the Truth or the Real or God. The process of transformation leads not to freedom for myself but rather to freedom from my conditioned self. Yoga is a science par excellence of transformation. As Patañjali says in the Yoga Sutras, the practice of Yoga aims at the transformational knowledge that leads to samadhi which he defines as a state when the separate self is not.
Yoga in the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita
A Workshop with Ravi Ravindra
Meditation – Lecture -Tea
Saturday, March 14, 2020; 11:00a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instant Karma Yoga
61607 29 Palms Hwy #F
Joshua Tree, 92252
Located behind JTAG Gallery in the corner
The transformational teaching of Yoga will be explored based on the two classical texts of Yoga of which Ravi has made fresh translations with his commentary. As we will discuss, a searcher soon becomes interested in the adventurous journey of self-transformation rather than the destination, which always remains a mystery.
Brief Description about Ravindra
Ravi Ravindra is an author and professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he served as professor in comparative religion, philosophy, and physics. He was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, and the founding director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge. He has published several books, including fresh translations of and commentaries on the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita.
For more information visit www.ravindra.ca.
