Dev Bhagavān
CRC Video Series
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The Consciousness Research Centre theory of consciousness—known as Dharmasār, the Essence of Dharma—is a breakthrough in understanding consciousness in spiritual thought and practice. It is comparable in importance, scope and impact to Einstein’s discovery of Relativity. This is no exaggeration, for the Essence of Dharma resolves all apparent contradictions between stages of the spiritual Path, and among the various religious sects and organizations, by providing an extremely broad ontological view and analysis of the ancient Vedic theory of consciousness, easily verifiable by anyone and capable of supporting all spiritual and religious views.
Dev Priyānanda Svāmī Bhagavān, founder of Consciousness Research Centre, is a senior independent sannyāsī in the South Indian Śākta line. While researching Śaṅkarācārya’s commentary on Vedānta-sūtra trying to understand his personal enlightenment experience, he fortuitously rediscovered an ancient holistic framework for spiritual life based on the four states of consciousness: Dharmasār, the ancient Vedic theory of consciousness.
The CRC Video Series is a YouTube Channel and online archive with over 2,000 videos analyzing a broad range of spiritual traditions in the light of the Esoteric Teaching of Dharmasār—the Essence of Dharma. It is structured according to the types, states and stages of development of consciousness. This document describes and explains the inner organization and structure of the Teaching according to the seven cakras and four states of consciousness.
Root Ontology
All perception is based on consciousness. There are four states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, deep sleep and the fourth, turīya also called God, Brahman, Nirvāṇa, Self-realization, Enlightenment etc.
The root ontology of Consciousness Research Centre is shown here:
The classification of the videos series is based on the level of development of consciousness through the yoga system, and the cakras that represent the center of awareness and support for that consciousness:
The seven cakras are divided into four groups. The groups are the basis of the catur-darśanam (four views of reality). The views are expressions of the four states of consciousness: jagrat, svapna, suṣupti and turīya. The practices related to the views and states of consciousness are the four principal yogas: karma, bhakti, rāja and jñāna.
The CRC videos and courses are similarly divided into four groups, plus Introductory and Uncategorized sections. The groups contain videos and courses relevant to the cakras in each group. The student is expected to begin with the Introductory section and progress gradually through the four levels of consciousness as his practice develops. This document lists and explains all the categories.
Introductory
The videos in the Introductory section are preliminary materials, required prerequisites for the course series in the following sections. Our system of ontological self-learning leverages the background knowledge given in these courses to produce extraordinary results. Since meaning is determined by context, the ontological context established in the Introductory courses enhances the meaning of the other courses. And since meaning and value are closely related, this greatly increases their value. By completing the Introductory courses you become a fully qualified CRC Researcher. Then you can consult with your Senior Researcher to create a Personal Learning Plan to chart your route through the more advanced courses.
Introductory Video Series:
| Course Site | YouTube | Archive |
| Foundation Series | YouTube | Archive |
| Becoming Genius | YouTube | Archive |
| Being in the World | YouTube | Archive |
| Being Integrity | YouTube | Archive |
| Call of the Friend | YouTube | Archive |
| Introduction to the Esoteric Teaching | YouTube | Archive |
| Consciousness | YouTube | Archive |
| Authentic Spiritual Life | YouTube | Archive |
| The Big Picture | YouTube | Archive |
It is best to begin here, and watch all the videos in each series before going on to the next. Contact your Senior Researcher if you have any difficulties understanding the Teaching or performing the practices given.
Jagrat | Dvaita-vāda | Karma-yoga
The courses in the Dvaita-vāda Section are based on jagrat consciousness, the dualistic view of the phenomenal world and empirical individual self as real. This is the domain of taking care of the body, care for the world, and the effort to establish an independent individuality. But because this empirical self is temporary and illusory, this effort only leads to suffering. Thus people turn to sectarian religion for relief of suffering, not realizing that they themselves are the architects of their fate. However, engaging in care of health, financial and psychological well-being, good education, charity and other gifts, regular performance of the religious rituals of karma-yoga gradually purify beings through accumulation of pious karma (puñya). Thus these courses apply to the first two cakras.
1. Mūlādhāra-cakra
The courses in this section are about the root or sex cakra. Sex energy supports and animates the whole body. The Kuṇḍalinī-Śakti resides here, coiled like a snake. The yoga process is a series of techniques intended to raise the Kuṇḍalinī up the suśumna spinal channel until She unites with Śiva in the crown cakra. This is enlightenment or Self-realization. Attaining complete Self-realization requires the full energy of the human being, which resides in the root or sex chakra. Thus complete development or evolution of the sex energy is required to attain the highest energy levels.
Video Series about the Mūlādhāra-cakra:
| Cultivating Sexual Energy | YouTube | Archive |
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| Secret Heaven | YouTube | Archive |
| Third-Sex Tantra | YouTube | — |
2. Svādhiṣṭhāna-cakra
This section contains courses and videos about the sex and energy-storage cakras. Vital energy—prāṇa, Chi, Ki or Qi—is life itself. This energy is stored in the second cakra, just below the navel. Techniques like prāṇāyama and Qigong collect and concentrate the vital energy. Increasing and optimizing the vital energy is required for robust health and success in meditation.
Video Series about the Svādhiṣṭhāna-cakra:
| Intro to Qigong | YouTube | Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Noble Path | YouTube | Archive |
Svapna | Viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda | Bhakti-yoga
In this section are courses based on limited or conditioned nonduality: viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda. In this view, one knows intellectually that ultimate reality is nondual, and aspires to reach it in the future. Meanwhile, one still experiences the phenomenal world and identifies with the empirical self. The practice in this stage is bhakti-yoga: spontaneous devotional service to one of the forms of the Godhead, according to one’s taste. This service is built on the foundation of karma-yoga established in the previous stage.
3. Maṇipūraka-cakra
This section contains courses and videos about the movement or solar plexus cakra. Everyone needs movement to stay healthy and alive. Movement and breath distribute energy throughout the body. So everyone should cultivate some exercise form: haṭha-yoga, Tai-chi, dance, swimming. Beyond this, in spiritual life there are many activities that need to be performed to prepare for the more advanced stages. These are called karma-yoga, and are done with the movement cakra in harmony with a higher purpose.
Video Series about the Maṇipūraka-cakra:
| Approaching Guru | YouTube | Archive |
| Guru-Disciple Relationship | YouTube | Archive |
| Authentic Karma-yoga | YouTube | Archive |
| Dīpam Havan Ceremony | YouTube | Archive |
| Siddhalakṣmīstotram | YouTube | Archive |
| Spiritual Nourishment | YouTube | Archive |
| Spiritual Purification | YouTube | Archive |
| Devānanda-samādhi Yoga | YouTube | Archive |
4. Anāhata-cakra
This section contains courses and videos about the heart cakra and the practice of bhakti-yoga. When sufficient puñya or good karma is accumulated by practice of the rituals and duties of karma-yoga, one gradually develops spontaneous attraction toward the object of one’s worship. This is experienced as a very sweet and satisfying emotional taste (bhāva or rasa). This taste gradually develops to the stage of ecstatic love (prema).
Video Series about the Anāhata-cakra:
| A New Beginning | YouTube | Archive |
| Ananya-bhakti | YouTube | Archive |
| Bhakti-Bhāva | YouTube | Archive |
| Mahānirvāṇa Tantra | YouTube | Archive |
| Ontology of Śakti | YouTube | Archive |
| Saundarya-laharī | YouTube | Archive |
| Tripurārahasya, Māhātmya-Khaṇḍa 1 | YouTube | Archive |
| Tripurārahasya, Māhātmya-Khaṇḍa 2 | YouTube | Archive |
| Tripurārahasya, Māhātmya-Khaṇḍa 3 | YouTube | Archive |
| Tripurārahasya, Māhātmya-Khaṇḍa 4 | YouTube | Archive |
| Tripurārahasya, Māhātmya-Khaṇḍa 5 & 6 | YouTube | Archive |
| Tsunami of Beauty | YouTube | Archive |
Suṣupti | Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga
In this section you will find courses based on vivartha-vāda: the view that duality is an illusion or appearance. The practice of deep meditation, rāja-yoga, is emptying the mind of all thoughts to perceive the essence: nibbāna (nirvāṇa), the transcendental Self or Brahman. The Buddha’s teaching, with its stress on meditation and emptiness, fits nicely into this category.
5. Viśuddhi-cakra
This section contains courses and videos about the throat cakra. Transcendental sound vibration —mantras, scriptural readings and recitations, prayer and spontaneous expressions of bliss and ecstasy—are important aspects of the spiritual Path. Here you find the powerful confidential mantras of the Śrī Vidyā that give deep emotional satisfaction, transcendental knowledge, bliss and Self-realization.
Video Series about the Viśuddhi-cakra:
| Vivartha-vāda | YouTube | Archive |
| Daśa-mahāvidyā | YouTube | Archive |
| Deep Meaning of Gāyatrī | YouTube | Archive |
| Lakṣmī Tantra | YouTube | Archive |
| Mahāṣoḍaśī Mantra | YouTube | Archive |
| Mahiṣāsura Mardini Stotra | YouTube | Archive |
| Paritta—Chanting for Protection | YouTube | Archive |
| Śrī Devī Māhātmyam | YouTube | Archive |
| Śrī Lalitā Sahasranāmam | YouTube | Archive |
| Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam Skandha 1 | YouTube | Archive |
6. Ājñā-cakra
This section contains courses and videos about the ajña (forehead) cakra. The main activity in this stage is meditation: rāja-yoga. When bhakti-yoga ripens and reaches completion, meditation—fixing the mind on a single thought—arises spontaneously. There is an orderly progression of progressively abstract states, called in the Buddha’s teaching the jhānas, leading to the four Path Realizations. This Path leads one on (opanāyaka) to realization of emptiness (śūnyatā).
Video Series about the Ājñā-cakra:
| Apophatic Antifragility | YouTube | Archive |
| Concept & Reality | YouTube | Archive |
| Cup of Tea | YouTube | Archive |
| Dependent Arising | YouTube | Archive |
| Dṛg-dṛśya Vivekaḥ | YouTube | Archive |
| Emptiness | YouTube | Archive |
| Eternalism vs. Timelessness | YouTube | Archive |
| Existential Ambiguity | YouTube | Archive |
| Meditation on the Void | YouTube | Archive |
| Mysteries of the Mātṛkā | YouTube | Archive |
| Nibbāna | YouTube | Archive |
| Pataṇjali’s Yoga-sūtras | YouTube | Archive |
| Right View | YouTube | Archive |
| Secret of the Golden Flower | YouTube | Archive |
| Śrī Devī-kālottara | YouTube | Archive |
| The Truth About the Truth About the Truth | YouTube | Archive |
| Vedānta & Dhamma | YouTube | Archive |
| Vedānta-sūtra | YouTube | Archive |
Turīya | Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga
This section has courses based on ajata-vāda: the view that only Brahman is real, and the phenomenal world and empirical self do not exist. This view is realized through jñāṇa-yoga, nondual pure awareness of the primordial Self (Brahman).
7. Sahasrāra-cakra
This section contains courses and videos about the sahasrāra (crown) cakra. This is the seat of pure awareness (Śiva). It is also the source of spiritual ecstasy, the full taste for which everyone is hankering. Spiritual pleasure is without beginning or end. In ordinary consciousness we cover it with various forms of suffering. When this suffering is gradually removed through the yoga process, our natural happiness and bliss shine forth. This is the perfection of life.
Video Series about the Sahasrāra-cakra:
| After Enlightenment | YouTube | Archive |
| Guru-vachaka-kovai | YouTube | Archive |
| Kaivalya-Navanītam | YouTube | Archive |
| Post-Enlightenment | YouTube | Archive |
| Quaternity Principle | YouTube | Archive |
| Ribhu-gita Readings | YouTube | Archive |
| Śrī Aparokṣānubhūtiḥ | YouTube | |
| Tripurārahasya, Jñāṇa-Khaṇḍa 1–3 | YouTube | Archive |
| Ulladu-Narpadu | YouTube | Archive |
| Upadeṣa-Undiyar | YouTube | Archive |
| Vichāra-Saṅgraham | YouTube | |
| Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha | YouTube | Archive |
Uncategorized | General
Video series that overlap more than one category or don’t fit in any category:
| Insights | YouTube | — |
| Autobiography | YouTube | Archive |
| Bulletins | YouTube | Archive |
| Defending the Sacred Tradition | YouTube | Archive |
| Freestyle Talks | YouTube | Archive |
| My Path, My Work | YouTube | Archive |
| My Secret Yoga | YouTube | Archive |
| Project Ambāl | YouTube | Archive |
| Quaternity | YouTube | Archive |
| Radical Thanatology | YouTube | Archive |
| Spiritual Music | YouTube | Archive |