ishvarapranidhana v0.1: Reducing Teachers

After taking this Vedanta class with Tadatmananda I have decided that the primary focus of the lineage I will be focusing on will be Dayananda as it seems the one closest to the Shankara lineage with Ramakrishna and Vivekananda to complete it thus simplifying my reading quite a bit.

Instead of going broadly I am focus my energies on a few teachers. The nice thing about this is that these teachers are well covered in their teachings and we can read what they wrote over and over.

• Swami Dayanananda Saraswati. Pramana based teaching. His teachings will be the core Jnana texts.
• Swami Vivekananda. Vast covering all the Yogas. But his complete volumes are a lifetime of study.
• Sri Ramakrishna. Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna cover everything in one spot.

Anyways, this vastly reduces my teachings and teachers I use and what my core study will entail. This also means that certain teachers I have will be moved to a secondary scope.

• Sivananda. While the teacher of all the teachers I follow. He has been superceded.
• Chinamayananda. His teachings are still useful even if they are not completely correct as they inspire the Hindu in me.
• Satyadananda. He will be used primarily for Hatha Yoga and asanas.
• Aurobindo. Not in this life.

All this means that my study simplifies a lot. And the teachers that are left exist for me to experience.