There are hundreds of religions inside Sanatan dharma (Hinduism) and all are called Sanatan dharma Hinduism. We live without God and everything but can't live without Dharma

Thanks so much for this video. I found it due to an assignment for one of my classes at the University of Cincinnati. Very informative. Was raised Southern Baptist, but have drifted away from it, and without knowing it, as I grew older, now 57, my views and feelings has fell more in line with Dharma and Karma. I try to do no harm, don't take everything personal, help rather than hinder, simply because it's the right thing to do. Thanks again. :)

@PeterBolland

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I really appreciate it. We come from different backgrounds, but sounds like we're heading for the same place. I'm reading a lot of Exvangelicals these days--Rachel Held Evans, Brian McLaren, and other progressive Christian voices like Richard Rohr. Brilliant stuff that's opening a lot of doors for me.

🙏 Greetings dear Peter. I just discovered your beautiful and enlightening channel. I am a follower of Swamiji Sarvapriyananda and live in Australia. I started my spiritual journey about 40 years ago with the Theravada forest tradition in Perth under Ajahn Jagaro and Ajahn Brahm. Your explanations and talks are crystal clear, and I'm some catching up to do with all your videos. Also, I find a lot of resemblance between Patanjali system and Theravada Buddhism. I'm so grateful to have come across your channel and teachings. Your new follower, with loving kindness 💜 Many pranams to you 🙏 🙏 🙏

@PeterBolland

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your beautiful message. Glad our paths crossed! 🙏🏼

This is an excellent video to understand the fundamentals of Hinduism. Thank you sir.

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏼

You offer a clear foundation of the yogas. Thank you.

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

that dishes example, however simple or funny it may be was deep. The appreciation of being able to do dishes because you have food and because you have a home. That was good stuff 👍

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. If awakening doesn’t happen right where you are, where does it happen? 🙏🏼

Nice video sir really appreciate 🙏✌✌

@PeterBolland

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rohit.

Getting out of oneself, realizing we are all part of the same thing, is so beneficial to the soul. IMO :)

@PeterBolland

Жыл бұрын

Amen.

You are the real deal , so glad u understand it so beautifuly

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Vikram, thank you SO much for your beautifully supportive and kind comment!

so beautifully explained!

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. 🙏🏼

It is a great video sir ! You are doing lot of work on Hindu spirituality .

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. 🙏🏼

Such an incredible job teaching such advanced concepts simply!

@PeterBolland

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Cory. 🙏🏼

Great video, thanks 👍

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏼

I love to listen to these videos while doing the dishes. Jnana Yoga + Karma Yoga? :)

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, exactly -- jnana and karma yoga. Thanks for listening/watching!

Thank you thank you, I’m able to identify where I belong 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏼

@emilymurray5283

2 жыл бұрын

Same it’s crazy because all these beliefs I’ve always went by I just didn’t have a name for it when I’ve found hindu it all clicked ♥️

Despite knowing all of these, the way you put it, I get answers some if my questions & I learn something new! * Like duality of Bhakti yoga & non duality of Gyan yoga is inbuilt in the Hindu philosophy * Swami Vivekanand extracted few limbs from Ashtang yoga & brought it to west. * four paths are for types of people , one can chose the path which is most in sync with his personality. For me It becomes a meditation while listening to your talks. Grateful to you sir🙏🙏

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

You sir go to the head of the class! Excellent notes!

@understandinglife1161

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland thanks sir, where will I find these notes! Respects 🙏

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

@@understandinglife1161 I mean YOUR notes, in your previous comment.

@understandinglife1161

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland oh, really! Thanks for the kind words, respects🙏

very well explained. grazie

@PeterBolland

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks!

Very good video!!! I seemed to be mainly Jnana yoga, it is odd that we are pre-set for one or the other. What one are you pre-set for?

This is amazing. I'm so glad I found you. So where would Guru yoga or Tantra fall within this framework? I recently met someone that was a Kashmir Shivaite. Where would he fall within these branches? Thank you for this channel. I'm about to really dig in :-)

@PeterBolland

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! By "guru yoga" do you mean working with a guru (teacher)? It seems that that can fit within any of the four yogas or margas. It's certainly not exclusive of any of them. As for Tantra, that's tricky. Tantra spans across Hinduism and Buddhism, and plays with the edges. It's more an attitude than a yoga or marga of its own. Finally, Shivaites are somewhat devotees of Shiva, so that might fit best within bhakti yoga. I think. You'd have to ask them!

@Bavubuka

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland Thank you! And yes by Guru Yoga I meant working with a teacher and being devoted to them and following all guidance they give.

Hey great video. Appreciate it really. But I have comment here, In Hinduism, Karma can be done by three ways. 1. Done without passion, being lazy, want to eat fruit without any work called Tamasic. 2. Done with passion to achieve some goal, to eat the fruit of fruition and hence work driven by the results with work called Rajasic 3. This is altruistic. Done not for oneself but for Thee, for the people, for the community with devotion, passion but not driven by the results that is called Svattic.

@PeterBolland

3 жыл бұрын

Sourav, thanks so much for watching, and for this important information. I have the honor and privilege of teaching The Bhagavad Gita in my Asian Philosophy class, and we read it line by line over a three or four week period. So naturally we do a deep dive on the tamas, rajas, and sattva idea, which, as you know, all comes to a head in chapter 18. I often think of those three modes of consciousness or being. I should do a whole video on that.

@souravmisra4080

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland yes that's would be great idea. Looking forward to it.

@kunkrishna6890

3 жыл бұрын

“altruism” is interesting: all is 1, no?, so then to do for 1’s Self is to do for another, is it not?; kind of like the idea that in improving the Self 1 improves the world...so the idea of “Selfless” action to me makes no sense, because we are all a part of the great spirit and in truth all action is Selfish...or Self-full; “all this is full; all that is full;”

@PeterBolland

3 жыл бұрын

@@kunkrishna6890 Words, as you aptly indicate, entangle us as often as liberate us.

@kunkrishna6890

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland my GOD is that true; if i’ve learned anything over the last few months, it’s the inadequacy of words to explain the ineffable; especially terms and phrases and whatnot that are already filled with so much backstory and so much clinging by billions: nirvana, buddha, mohdi, messiah, karma, moksha, yoga, maitreya, kalki, enlightenment, belief, religion, anatman, atman-GOD, BRAHMAN; how can anyone transcend anything with all the clinging surrounding even such a basic thing: language;

can you start a church? because I hated church (Southern Baptist) it filled me with fear, guilt, and shame but I do miss the community aspect of it and if I had a church I could go to where the services were on topics like you teach and in the same compassionate way you speak, I would gladly go every chance. Your lectures are like honey for my soul. Very inspiring.

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Breanda for your continuing support. And no, sorry, I won't be starting a church. But I get what you're saying. Maybe we can have a virtual community of sorts, combing the work of a lot of teachers and voices from diverse sources. Still, there's nothing like an on-the-ground in-person gathering. I attend a church for just that reason. (Not Southern Baptist by the way!)

Jnana yoga and Advaita Vedanta are my path

@PeterBolland

2 ай бұрын

And a beautiful path it is. 🙏🏼

@kosmicwizard

2 ай бұрын

@PeterBolland Absolutely! And since I'm on the topic, I grew up Christian, I'm wondering if there is veracity in Jesus having traveled to India before his ministry? And if you see much of Hindu thought in concepts that are attributed to Jesus in the gospels? I personally see a lot of Hinduism in Greek Philosophy, and I know that the Jewish world was Helenized by the Maccabees, and that Thomas the Twin traveled to Carala,.India after the Crucifixion. I know there is a lot here, but what do you make of it? Thanks!

@PeterBolland

2 ай бұрын

Nature abhors a vacuum, and there's just so much we don't know about Jesus, especially between his birth and his 30th year. There's no evidence that he traveled to India, or anywhere for that matter, and in the vacuum people have inserted all sorts of wild speculation. What we do know is that during Jesus's lifetime there were thriving communities of Hindus and Buddhist in the major Near Eastern centers, and there's little doubt that an inquisitive fellow like Jesus could have run across Hindu and Buddhist ideas. It's plausible.

It's called 3 step breathing the way a child breath, once u become good in 3 step breathing your body start changing from inside more in ZENYOGA book

World should listen to yu , especially all hindus first , majority of hindus forgot who we are 🤔 that is the weakest link

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ravinder. What a great compliment to be paid! Wow. 🙏🏼

Respectfully sue, dud to find “ Upcoming : what about all these Hindu gods & goddesses “ Can you please help me die in locating your thoughts on this subject. 🙏🙏

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Here’s the link to my channel. Check both the World Religions and Asian Philosophy playlists. You’ll find what you are looking for. kzread.info

@understandinglife1161

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland thank you so much sir, respects 🙏

What exactly is Vedanta and how does it relate to Hinduism? Thank you.

@PeterBolland

3 жыл бұрын

Literally, "Vedanta" means "the end or culmination of the Vedas." In other words, the philosophy of the Upanishads, which are also known as late Vedas. Vedanta is one of the many darshanas (schools or sects) within Hinduism. Very generally speaking, Vedanta tends toward non-duality, that all is Brahman-Atman, as opposed to some of the more dualistic schools. To put a finer point on it, Advaita Vedanta is explicitly non-dual and argues for a hard monism (Oneness). Here in the U.S., the Vedanta Society, founded 100 years ago by Hindu master Vivekenanda (student of Ramakrishna) established Vedanta as the most visible form in the US. Vivekenanada introduced "yoga" and meditation in the US. By yoga I mean the asanas and pranayama (poses and breath work) of Ashtanga (eight limbed) yoga. There's a quick sketch for you anyway. The practice of yoga and meditation has leaped across all cultural, geographical, and ideological boundaries, much to the frustration of some Indian practitioners, who feel that their practices have been "culturally appropriated."

@Bavubuka

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBolland Wow. Thank you so much for this in-depth response. This is so fascinating.

You should write a consolidated book and course on Hinduism, with just the core principles explained in easy language.... But first you should learn how to advertise yourself....such high quality content with such a poor viewership....

@PeterBolland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback MindAtRest. In my efforts to live a purposeful, balanced life, I try to find a middle path between outward-turned energy and inward-turned energy. I have a busy full-time career as a college professor and department chair, and in addition I offer about 12 webinars a month through San Diego Oasis. I also write a column for Unity Magazine, and have just completed a book that is in the final phrases of production. I also am a performing singer-songwriter with a long list of recording credits (both my own albums and as a studio musician). I am so wonderfully, beautifully, gratefully busy that I'm about to burst. Marketing is not my strong suit. I make these videos for my college students. The fact that others have found them and enjoy them is frosting on the cake. But I hear you. And this channel is growing.

@TheFactbase

2 жыл бұрын

​@@PeterBolland Thanks for replying. Wish you all the best on your journey ahead. Seems you are having a great time practicing Karma Yoga. A very warm Namaste from India. As a suggestion, you can use keywords like India or words related to India along with some tags and nice thumbnails. Indians will swarm in and propel your channel with increased viewership.

Uugghhhh! SERVICE. Dharma. Duty. It's enough to make me run screaming from the room. The whole thing feels like such UTTER "Drudgery". And yet-- "Service" is today's all-the-rage politically correct kewl Religion. This is NOT to say that Acts-of-Kindness aren't good, or ever done, or not appreciated. They are. But again, the whole idea of Duty, obligation and service. Bleeauugh...there MUST be a better way. Pardon a bit of sarcasm here (just to make the point) but consider this: NATURE. and, Reincarnation. You hear New Agers and some spiritual types say: Life is a school and we are to make the most of this Life, to advance OURSELVES. And so, lets ask: Consider the Evergreen tree. It stands up tall, toward the Sun, and it drinks in the Rain, to get deep roots and strength and be healthy. Does anyone really believe, that that tree, will deliberately "do service" or "show compassion" by drinking LESS water so other nearby trees can drink more, thereby doing an act of unselfish "service"? No. That tree has this lifetime to advance itself as much as it can. Why not the same w/humans? We don't bully or suppress or restrict others. We focus on our own learning and wisdom and seeking God and our own spiritual development, as others should, too. On judgment day, will God really say: You should used more of your days off to make sandwiches for folks at the mission or Food bank, but you didn't do enough service, so you get punished. OR-- suppose YOU stood tall on judgement day and told God: You should let me into Heaven because I made all those sandwiches for the homeless folks.....and what if he responded back with: Yes, that was a nice thing to do. But it doesn't count as much as you think it does. You SHOULD have spent more time in Seeking me, and in prayer, meditation, spiritual growth, seeking wisdom, etc. and all those people you "served" should be more concerned with developing themselves, too. You are to make the most of this lifetime, as the tree grows up toward the sun......but no one talks about that these days. Have a listen to Alan Watts, sharing w/us a conversation between Confucius and Lao Tzu regarding duty to one's neighbor, virtue, etc. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJ-Ar8qBdJPZkpM.html

@PeterBolland

Жыл бұрын

I'm fascinated by your revulsion to the word "duty." Ha! How about swapping out the phrase "mutual interdependence?" As I say in the video, "Dharma" is just the moral obligation to wake up to our obvious reliance on each other. The tree in your example is not, in a very fundamental and literal way, a separate, independent entity. The tree is the rain and the soil and the microbial life in the soil and gravity and the sun and billion-year-old protons in the atoms that make up the molecules in the cells of its body. Nothing, not one thing, existence independently of all of the rest of the universe. Dharma is simply the recognition of this mutual interdependence, and the moral rectitude of grounding one's actions in that awareness. It is an strange adolescent indulgence to imagine that we do it all on our own. Reminds me of Ayn Rand, and the fact that she died utterly penniless on Medicare and Social Security--the very collectivist systems she railed against her whole life. And now I'll watch your link because I adore Alan Watts! Thanks for watching and commenting!