{VSC-IISc} Gentle reminder for the VSC Session on 30th June 2026

[Vivekananda Study Circle IISc]

Namaskara,

Welcome to VSC IISc weekly class. This is a reminder for this week's class.

Date and Time:- 30th June 2026, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

Venue: Warden Room, 1st floor, A Block Hostel, above A Mess, IISc.

Google Maps Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HMja5vR2ce4EQ85GA

We encourage the IISc community to attend the VSC classes in person.If you are unable to make it today, you may join the class online using this Google Meet link:

https://meet.google.com/zfw-ahfa-qyp

Lecture link: [Biography of Swami Vivekananda] https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda_biography/08_vedanta_in_america.htm, [Essence of the Bhagavad Gita for modern minds] https://practicalphilosophy.in/2026/03/30/essence-of-the-bhagavad-gita-for-modern-minds/

Meeting minutes of last lecture:

• In the class held on 23rd June we had enough reading about American history and how Swamiji's presence at USA was able to give India's spirituality to the Americans.
• We also saw about Swamiji's likingness to some of the Western literature of Walter Whitman and others which was very similar to Advaita and had contents related to renunciation.
• And we saw about Swamiji's bold reply to those people who tried to portray him in the West and to those superstitious Hindu people at India, where Swamiji says that he has not stepped even a bit on his chastity and poverty.
• After reading some portions from Swamiji's biography we read Gomu sir's Gita book, on Chapter-7 which explained about Anubandha Chatushtaya(Adhikari, Prayojana, Vishaya and Sambhanda) for Gita.
• BG-2-11(अशोच्यनन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे | गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः ||) discusses this Anubandha Chatushtaya for the Gita.
• The Adhikari was a person who considers welfare for all (अशोच्यनन्वशोचस्त्वं)and who has some amount of jnana and has exercised all possible solutions before(प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे).
• The Prayojana is not to worry (नानुशोचन्ति).
• The Vishaya is wisdom which is right understanding of who I am? what is my relationship with God and world and other fundamental questions like these.
• The Sambandha is the relation on what the adhikari has to do with the vishaya to get the prayojana. So for the jnana to manifest what has to be done those steps are sambandha.

Regards
VSC Team

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