Question and answer session with Nutan Swamiji during a two day Bhagavad Gita Retreat conducted at Ohio, during the 2025 visit.
Date: 29 June 2025
Venue: Genova Community Township hall, 5111 South Old 3C Road, Westerville, Ohio 43082

In this interactive session, Swamiji clarifies various questions raised by the participants. He emphasizes that one must cultivate Viveka buddhi, that distinguishes the permanent from the impermanent. Viveka becomes meaningful only when it is lived daily—by choosing Shreyas, the path that brings inner strength, and expansion.

Life inevitably brings shocks and suffering. Like Arjuna, one must perform one’s svadharma without Saṅga (clinging). Instead of suppressing painful memories, one should courageously confront them, without fear. Stability comes from dropping saṅga, not from avoiding experiences.
Even sāttvika sukha and sātvika Jnana can become subtle bondage. They can be transcended through surrender—to God or the Guru. Transforming a rajasic work-life into a sāttvika requires removal of doership, possessiveness, and ego. As inputs become sāttvika, the mind becomes calm. Understanding that all interactions are merely gunas interacting with gunas leads to true asaṅgatva.

Elaborating on Aparoksha knowledge, Swamiji says that the realization of the Self is a direct knowledge, where the subject-object division ceases.

Shlokas and Questions in the Satsang:
0:00 - Introduction
2:45 - Is there a sadhana to act with Viveka buddhi every day?
14:03 - How to handle big shocks in life and remain stable?
26:00 - What is the technique to overcome the bondage of Sātvika sukha?
33:34 - I am very Rājasic in work life. But would like to become sātvika. How to accomplish that?
37:09 - How not to be judgemental?
43:20 - How to overcome comparing ourselves with others?
50:34 - How to address small, everyday things that are irritating?
57:26 - Please elaborate on the meaning of Aparoksha?
1:04:01 - वदन्ति तत्तत्त्वविदस्तत्त्वं यज्ज्ञानमद्वयम् ....Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.11
1:05:50 - We all go through physical pain and that gets converted into mental suffering. How do we stop that physical suffering turn into mental suffering?

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