Episode 4: Samskara - What Does it Mean?

• What is it? Our mental impressions and imprints left by our thoughts, experiences and actions.

• How Can we better live with age related frailty, serious illness and approaching death?

• Why do we resist our lifecycle?

• Why not enjoy it?

• Rooted in Vedic Literature and developed in Upanishads

• Monier Williams Describes it as “To go around, revolve, pass through a succession of states, to go towards or obtain, moving in a circuit.”

• Why is Savasana so hard?

• Can you see samsara in your own life?

Show Resources:

• Light on Life-BKSI https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/light-on-life/id1378841685?mt=11

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande https://g.co/kgs/5dHXAX

• TedTalk by Scott WIlliams “The hidden role informal caregivers play in healthcare” https://en.tiny.ted.com/talks/scott_williams_the_hidden_role_informal_caregivers_play_in_health_care

Quote: “At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent.” Barbara Bush

“Freedom and enlightenment come to those who live life to the full”  BKS Iyengar