Sadhana Panchakam: On Spiritual Practice (1–15)
Swami Brahmarupananda

By SM | Published: January 9, 2011

In this series of lec­tures, Swami Brahma­rupa­nanda dis­cusses Shankaracharya’s Sād­hana Pañ­cakam, five verses on spir­i­tual prac­tice, which con­tains forty instruc­tions for the spir­i­tual aspi­rant. The text and audio record­ing is given here.

Part 1, deliv­ered on Jan­u­ary 9, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 1 (right-click to down­load: 23 MB)

Part 2, deliv­ered on Jan­u­ary 23, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 2 (right-click to down­load: 24 MB)

Part 3, deliv­ered on Feb­ru­ary 13, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 3 (right-click to down­load: 26 MB)

Part 4, deliv­ered on March 13, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 4 (right-click to down­load: 22 MB)

Part 5, deliv­ered on April 3, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 5 (right-click to down­load: 23 MB)

Part 6, deliv­ered on May 1, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 6 (right-click to down­load: 22 MB)

Part 7, deliv­ered on June 5, 2011:

We apol­o­gize: the record­ing failed mid­way through the lec­ture. This record­ing is only 19.5 min­utes long.

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 7 (right-click to down­load: 10 MB)

Part 8, deliv­ered on July 10, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 8 (right-click to down­load: 21 MB)

Part 9, deliv­ered on July 24, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 9 (right-click to down­load: 21 MB)

Part 10, deliv­ered on Octo­ber 9, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 10 (right-click to down­load: 23 MB)

Part 11, deliv­ered on Novem­ber 6, 2011:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 11 (right-click to down­load: 25 MB)

Part 12, deliv­ered on Jan­u­ary 8, 2012:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 12 (right-click to down­load: 21 MB)

Part 13, deliv­ered on March 4, 2012:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 13 (right-click to down­load: 27 MB)

Part 14, deliv­ered on March 11, 2012:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 14 (right-click to down­load: 25 MB)

Part 15, deliv­ered on April 22, 2012:

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Sadhana Pan­chakam part 15 (right-click to down­load: 24 MB)