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A Journey through Birth and Death - The Kapila Gita [TRAILER]

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Hello! 😃 Hope you're doing ok over there. Here’s a film I made during the lockdown. It’s a ‘poetic visual concept album based on the teachings of Kapiladeva together with a 30-part philosophy course exploring the basic components of sankya yoga.’ 🤯 Probably a good idea to inhale after that sentence. 🌟 If you’d like to analyse the divinely connected material energy in a systematic and completely non-boring way, please join me at http://www.benloka.com/kapila ➡️ http://www.instagram.com/benloka ➡️ http://www.facebook.com/benloka Image credits: www.bbt.org | www.radhegendron.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The timeless teachings of Kapiladev unfold within the pages of Srimad Bhagavatam, the central text in the tradition of Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of affection). It is said that this knowledge has been preserved and passed down through an authentic chain of teachers and students since beyond the estimation of recorded history. The account speaks of Kapila’s mother Devahuti who, like many of us, finds herself in a position of great anxiety and so asks for a way out: “How can I be free from fear?” As a frequent participant of fear, I found this section of the Srimad Bhagavatam profoundly valuable in my life, and with the recent turn in our global circumstances, it’s perhaps never been so relevant. Kapila explains the root causes of anxiety, gives meaning to the vast universal creation, reveals the secrets of true love in connection with our source, and administers the tools by which one can remove all blocks on the path to self-realisation. This video series takes the shape of 7 short poems, inspired by the translations of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in the hope that others may be inspired to discover these original books. Of course there are various versions of the Kapila Gita in circulation, but this rendition of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, in the form of his Srimad Bhagavatam, can be accepted as uniquely authentic, being within the unbroken line of legitimate preceptors. Modern education systems have defined intelligence as retained knowledge, but the Vedic concept of intellect rests on one’s ability to distinguish spirit from matter, illusion from the real. Without that higher perspective we are simply dealing with the minute details of a temporal world. In consideration of this the structure of the Kapila Gita can be divided in two parts. The first half deals with ‘Jnana’, an understanding of the spiritual path to freedom; the second half then draws our focus to ’Vairagya’ – identification and rejection of the material chains that binds us. Spiritual knowledge enchants us to move higher, whereas the cold realities of our present environment serve to wake us up. Ultimately we are not meant for this world, but in changing our attitude towards it we can enter an entirely new (yet familiar) realm of healthy existence, full cognisance and inner satisfaction.