This is a fascinating two part documentary featuring work by neurologist prof.Ramachandran. What worries me though in these kinds of research is the conclusions on religion is based only on christianity as a model. I find it very interesting to compare concepts of indriyas to chitta (katopanishad part15) to various research results in this documentary.

In this class we discuss how the hierarchy of control help or hurt sadhana. We also discuss theory of creation. Next class in spring semester begin from january 11, 2009.

In this class, we discuss how Yama identifies the various components of sadhana, and how this hirerachy helps in sadhana.

A very inspiring commencement speech at standford. We can only sit back and admire the man who has walked the talk! I liked his 'Death as an intellectual concept' that he used to get clarity. 

This lecture deals with the basics of sadhana, elements in a sadhana and brief descriptions of those elements.

Pretty interesting talk by Dr.Rao's at google. It kind of reminds me that the western narrative of history is "a" reality and not "the" reality.

Part 12 of Katopanishad lecture - Finishing up panchAgni vidya.

This class is still the continuation of the first verse of valli 3, adhyaya 1. The topics dealt with in this class include sadhana, shruthi and panchagni vidya -

A fascinating BBC documentary on the life of Issac Newton. This documntary reveals Newtons not-so-famous ideas and motivations of his work. What gave 'meaning' to his work was his theological beliefs about the world.