| Conferences : Dante’s journey and Bhagavad-Gita
Psychological Experience of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise for the contemporary man
First lesson, Ponsacco (PI), 30 September 2009 20.30 hrs
Bhaktivedanta Foundation Hall - via Gramsci 64, Ponsacco (PI)
Lecturer: Marco Ferrini, Founder and President of Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta
The Course develops the subject that was entertained during the 26 September Conference held in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
Ferrini dedicated the first lesson to the contextualization of these two works, Bhagavad-Gita and Divine Comedy. He underlined how they cannot be understood and compared without knowing the nature of the locations in which they are situated and the complex dynamics of the environment in which they were written which are geographically so far from each other and separated by millenniums.
We discover Dante to be extremely sensitive, curious and open to all experiences in relation to Christianity from the origin and his personality as a man of great culture and attentive to spiritual experiences from the Asian Est. A man that had to hide his writing because of his persecutions and that was even a burden for those that used to host him when he was in exile from Florence. He was a great observer of human life and was born in a particular century. A century that was unrepeatable and unique through good and bad. He was sensible to the damage that the corruption of the hierarchy of the Roman Church at that time was doing to common people.
His mystic journey has many traits in common with Yoga. It is close and almost coincides with the teaching of Bhagavad-Gita which was manifested many centuries before and it is the perfect compendium of all of the Hindu-Vedic literature. With the concepts of Guna and Karma, dharma and bhakti, Bhagavad-Gita opens to the possibility for the embodies being to free himself through spiritual practices and realizations of maximum level.
By comparing the two operas we can see those fights that all of us have to endure through the course of our lives. And from those works we can draw practical teachings to realize ourselves. This is only if we don’t read them superficially but rather find a Teacher, a person who knows them as they are in their immense deepness.
Our future lessons of this Course will be dedicated to a comprehensive teaching of each canto of the Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) in comparison to the teaching of Bhagavad-Gita. Visions, contains, values, people ways of life and ways to evolution will dialogue on the journey toward divine wisdom and immortal love. Information
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