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Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Religion scholar

Feb 22, 2026

3:22
Thank you.
3:24
Thank you, Diane.
3:33
Vishwam darpana drishyaman nagari tulyam nijan targatam pashyan nātmani māyayā bahiribodh bhūtam yathā nidrayā yā sākṣāt kuru te prabhoda-samaye svātmā na mevādvayam tasmai śrī-guru-murtaye nama idam śrī-dakṣiṇā-murtaye This is just a perfect day to talk on Yoga Vasishta, particularly for us living in the east coast of snowstorm.
4:21
Our classes are canceled, university is closed, and I am willing the snow is not there.
4:35
and I still have hot water, and all the good things that I can wish for, and let's create that to be real.
4:49
No matter how radical, ideological the idea seems, in the first round when we hear Yoga Vasistha, actually, if we do a second round of reading or a third round of reading, we start connecting the dots and some deeper insights start coming.
5:35
My first introduction to the Yoga Vasishta was without knowing the book, but just some grandmother's stories and some added, not like textually correct, some whatever my grandmother felt like adding to make it more interesting.

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34:07
Can you tell me what is going on here?

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