What Is Freedom?

When people talk about freedom, they usually speak about the freedom to be a slave to their own impulses. The million year tyrant of our biology has kept us entangled in its own survival and reproduction motives, using us as pawns in a much larger game that we cannot win. Every now and then we wake up to this reality and ask if there are other motives by which we might live our lives, motives more meaningful and fulfilling than simply the dressed-up drives of sex and survival?

00:00:00 What is the Purpose of Life?
00:04:12 The Test of Truth (Don't Believe A Word I Say!)
00:06:15 What Do People Commonly Want Out of Practicing Yoga?
00:12:15 What Does A Mature Spiritual Desire Look Like?
00:15:05 What does "Dukkha" (Suffering) really mean?
00:17:59 The Danger of Immature Spiritual Practice (The Dragon of Biology)
00:28:40 Why Don't Pleasures Satisfy Us? (The Bondage of Kama, Artha and Dharma)
00:42:41 The Freedom Paradox: Common Conceptions of Freedom and Why They Don't Work vs The Spiritual Ideal of Freedom from Lust and Greed
00:59:12 The Peace that Passeth All Understanding (Ananda)
01:11:11 Freedom in Kant, the Christian Mystics and the Tarot
01:18:12 How To Achieve Freedom?
01:22:11 The Central Thrust of Indian Philosophy (Polytheism to Monotheism to Monism)
01:35:22 An Argument to Show You Your Freedom (You are God!)
01:46:34 If I Am God, Why Do I Incarnate and Forget?
01:53:34 Stanzas on Freedom (Nirvana Shatakam)

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