Finding God without Faith

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Swami Tadatmananda’s lectures on Finding God without Faith are available online. Click on the link below to listen or download.

Finding God without Faith a series of lectures by Swami Tadatmananda

Explore the insights of sages and mystics who rejected dogma and relied instead on their own experience and insights to guide their search for God. Lectures presented in 1997.

Talk 1: Knowledge and Belief – What is the difference? How is knowledge of God possible?

Talk 2: Christian Mysticism – via positiva: the way of affirmation and via negativa: the way of negation.

Talk 3: Vision of the Vedic Sages – There is not one God; there is only God.

Talk 4: God, World and You – Discovering the reality underlying all that exists.

Talk 5: Destiny and Grace – Does prayer work? If so, how? Does God control our destiny

Talk 6: Symbolism in Worship – Are rituals meaningful? If God is one, why worship many forms?

Talk 7: Meditations and Contemplation – Hindu and Christian practices for seeking God directly.

Talk 8: Religion and Spirituality – The future of religion in a rational, scientific post-modern world.