Discover Course

The course is based on the Bhagavad-Gita, spoken 5'000 years ago in the holy place in North India. The Gita is universally renowned as the crown jewel of India’s spiritual wisdom. Though ancient, the Gita remains a timeless voice of authority, wisdom and relevant for all people. It has inspired and been revered by some of the greatest minds:

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonalphilosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial."

—Henry David Thoreau

"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day."

—Mahatma Gandhi

“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.”

—Albert Einstein

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion"

—Herman Hesse

Course description

Discover is our foundational online course on the Bhagavad-Gita. Whether you’re a seeker or have found your spiritual path, Discover will enlighten your worldview with a philosophical framework. With its five-subject insight on the Gita, the course will offer perspective and clarity for life, whatever your vocation, profession or ambition.

Life if full of the intrigue of big questions. Who are we? Why are we here? Why do bad things happen to good people? What happens after death? Our fast paced, monotony of materialistic life leaves little time to fathom our deeper thoughts what to speak of seeking answers. Discover invites you to invest in 4 sessions and take a glimpse into the conversation between Sri Krishna and His intimate and perplexed friend, Arjuna. Based on a moral dilemma, the conversation carries us through the pages of the 700 verses as Krishna addresses Arjuna’s inner attitude to the challenges of life with insights on the self, the notion of work, the influences of this world, the impact of time and the presence of the divine.

Bring your curiosity, your queries and your questions to our Discover course. With dynamic presentations and opportunities for discussion and reflection, this course will prepare you to find meaning in your own dilemmas of life. Are you ready to Discover?

You will learn about:

• Insights on the nature of the soul (jiva)
• Meaning of action (karma)
• Influences of this world (prakriti)
• Impact of time (kala)
• Presence of the Divine (ishvara)

Schedule

This course will be taking place on Sunday mornings starting on November 19, 2023. There will be four sessions in total with last one happening on December 10, 2023.

• Sun, 19 Nov 2023, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM (CET)
• Sun, 26 Nov 2023, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM (CET)
• Sun, 3 Dec 2023, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM (CET)
• Sun, 10 Dec 2023, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM (CET)

Language: English

Free registration

The course includes:

• 4-week course
• Course slides
• Recordings of each class
• Your tutor is available by email and other forums
• Communicate with fellow students using our forums

About facilitators

Hrvoje Kusanic (Hari Katha das) is working as IT specialist in Switzerland as of 2013. Originally from Croatia.

Follows bhakti-yoga practice since 2009.

Dmitrijs Randars (Damodar Svarup das) has been learning & practicing bhakti-yoga since 2007. Originally from Latvia.

He has Bachelor and Engineer degrees in Business Administration which enabled him to start a career in Quality Assurance and later on in Learning & Development.

While living and traveling in India between 2013 and 2014 he acquired a Bhakti Sastri degree in yoga philosophy and psychology.

Later in 2014 Dmitrijs established the first UK branch of College of Vedic Studies (Bhaktivedanta Manor) in Central London where he was coordinating and teaching bhakti-yoga courses and events until 2016.

Later in 2016 he moved to Switzerland and in 2017 started organizing Vedic events for bhakti-yoga communities in Zurich and Basel. In 2021, being a co-founder, he established the first international branch of College of Vedic Studies outside of the UK in Zurich, Switzerland where he until now manages and coordinates courses and events.

In 2022 received initiation from his spiritual master in the bhakti-yoga tradition.