This interview with Vedanta teacher Gautam Jain explores the principles of Vedanta and how they can help us navigate modern life's challenges. Jain, a senior protégé of A. Parthasarathy, has dedicated decades to sharing these teachings with corporations, institutions, and universities worldwide. He emphasizes that the key to inner peace and productivity lies in understanding our relationship with the world and managing our emotional reactions.
The first principle to understand is that the problem is not in the world, it's in how you relate to it.Source: Gautam Jain Vedanta teacher Gautam Jain is a senior protégé of world-renowned philosopher and author A. Parthasarathy.
MM: For people who aren’t familiar with Vedanta, can you give us a brief overview of its central principles and how it can help us in our modern Western lives?actually means the end of knowledge, the culmination of wisdom. It refers to the highest knowledge known to a human being. The reason it’s the highest is that it provides us with techniques for how to live in the world, to be peaceful and productive in what we do, and move toward wisdom and self-realization.
MM: Fair enough, but what about when there is an actual threat, or genuinely destructive forces in your midst? How do you recommend that we neutralize, or better cope with, adversity in the world around us?First, we need to understand the world is not designed to cater to the whims and fancies of a particular person or a set of people. The world will be what it is. You like summer, but there will be winter. You like the roads to be clear, but there will be traffic.
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