Free Your Mind
A nine-session series with Riyaz Bharucha on attachment: what quietly binds the mind, and what it takes to be free of it. Based on The Holocaust of Attachment by Swami A. Parthasarathy. Free to watch, in your own time.
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Session 1: The Human Condition
What if the greatest obstacle to your freedom is something you cannot even see? The opening session explores the hidden nature of attachment, and how it disguises itself as care, love, loyalty and ambition.
What if the greatest obstacle to your freedom is something you cannot even see? The opening session explores the hidden nature of attachment, and how it disguises itself as care, love, loyalty and ambition.
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Session 2: Inner Architecture
Why does the mind become attached, and why is lasting contentment so hard to find in external things? This session traces attachment back to its source, and shows how bondage can appear as freedom.
Why does the mind become attached, and why is lasting contentment so hard to find in external things? This session traces attachment back to its source, and shows how bondage can appear as freedom.
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Session 3: The Wealth Paradox
We spend much of life pursuing wealth, yet those with the most are not always the most content. This session examines the limits of wealth and what it really takes to feel abundant.
We spend much of life pursuing wealth, yet those with the most are not always the most content. This session examines the limits of wealth and what it really takes to feel abundant.
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Session 4: The Pursuit of Pleasure
Pleasure occupies much of our lives, yet few examine it beyond the moment. This session contrasts pleasure with happiness, and shows why attachment to pleasure leaves the mind restless.
Pleasure occupies much of our lives, yet few examine it beyond the moment. This session contrasts pleasure with happiness, and shows why attachment to pleasure leaves the mind restless.
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Session 5: Freedom In Relationships
Why do relationships so often become a source of anxiety, expectation and conflict? This session separates love from attachment, and shows how selfishness turns affection possessive.
Why do relationships so often become a source of anxiety, expectation and conflict? This session separates love from attachment, and shows how selfishness turns affection possessive.
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Session 6: The Race for Recognition
What happens when your sense of worth depends on how others see you? This session examines the image we curate for approval, and the cost of placing our peace of mind in other hands.
What happens when your sense of worth depends on how others see you? This session examines the image we curate for approval, and the cost of placing our peace of mind in other hands.
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Session 7: Bound to Belief
How do our own beliefs and opinions become a form of bondage? Many of our strongest convictions are inherited and never examined, until we mistake our view of things for the way they are.
How do our own beliefs and opinions become a form of bondage? Many of our strongest convictions are inherited and never examined, until we mistake our view of things for the way they are.
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Session 8: First Step to Freedom
Can we take part fully in life without losing our freedom? This session draws the distinction between involvement, indifference and detachment, and shows where real independence begins.
Can we take part fully in life without losing our freedom? This session draws the distinction between involvement, indifference and detachment, and shows where real independence begins.
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Session 9: Road to Freedom
What is the real meaning of renunciation, and why is it the bedrock of true freedom? Not withdrawal or giving things up, but a sign of growth, maturity and inner independence.
What is the real meaning of renunciation, and why is it the bedrock of true freedom? Not withdrawal or giving things up, but a sign of growth, maturity and inner independence.
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Session 10: Free
This concluding session explores how steady, consistent study and assimilation of knowledge transforms the mind—from dependence and attachment towards clarity, objectivity, independence and peace. Discover Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Yoga, the practical paths to transcend selfishness, refine the personality and free the mind from attachment and desire. The journey from attachment to freedom ultimately leads within—where the quiet mind discovers fulfilment as one’s own true Self.
This concluding session explores how steady, consistent study and assimilation of knowledge transforms the mind—from dependence and attachment towards clarity, objectivity, independence and peace. Discover Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Yoga, the practical paths to transcend selfishness, refine the personality and free the mind from attachment and desire. The journey from attachment to freedom ultimately leads within—where the quiet mind discovers fulfilment as one’s own true Self.
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What You'll Learn
The human personality is shaped by deep patterns of thought, most of them running beyond our awareness. This series explores attachment: the mind’s tendency to bind itself to people, possessions, identities and beliefs.
What we grow attached to gains power over us. Dependence brings anxiety, insecurity, stress and a host of other mental ills.
Through practical examples and illustrations, the nine sessions show how to recognise attachment in your own life. With clarity comes the ability to act dynamically and relate fully, without losing inner freedom and independence.
