Vedanta is a living inquiry into the nature of consciousness. In a world of material opulence and growing spiritual and psychological disorientation, many find themselves anxious, fragmented, and disconnected from deeper meaning. Vedanta, addresses this crisis not through belief or consolation, but through a transformation of identity.
Drawing from the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Vedantic tradition, and placed in dialogue with Analytical Psychology and contemporary neuroscience, this workshop explores Vedanta as a psychology of awakening. Suffering is understood as misidentification, liberation as remembrance, and realization as a deepening participation in life rather than withdrawal from it.
Designed for Jungian-oriented clinicians, analysts, and depth practitioners, the workshop combines teaching, symbolic amplification, and reflective inquiry, inviting participants to engage Vedanta not simply as a tradition to be studied, but as a living symbolic system that continues to unfold within psyche and practice.
“When the knot of the heart is cut, all doubts are resolved, and all actions lose their binding force.”
— Mundaka Upanishad
This workshop offers a contemplative and clinically grounded space to explore what becomes possible when the self remembers its deeper ground.
Presented by Ashok Bedi, MD
Psychiatrist • Jungian Analyst • Author & Teacher
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the basic tenets of the Vedanta from an analytical perspective
- Utilize the concepts of Vedanta’s unitive field of consciousness in clinical settings
- Apply the Vedanta paradigm to explore the states of Reverie and Homonusia in the analytical field.
Suggested Readings:
(Sutton, 2022; Vivekananda & Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre.852 UkOxU Bodleian Offsite Storage, 1993)
Sutton, N. (2022). Introductin to Hindu Philosophy: Vedanta and Samkhya. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Center for Hindu Studies.
Vivekananda, & Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre.852 UkOxU Bodleian Offsite Storage. (1993). The universal religion. Bourne End: Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre.
Bio: Ashok Bedi, M.D. is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain, a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a training analyst at the Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His books include In the Eye of the Storm- Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crisis, The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction, Crossing the Healing Zone, Awaken the Slumbering Goddess: The Latent Code of the Hindu Goddess Archetypes, Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path and Path to the Soul. He is the liaison for the IAAP for developing Jungian training programs in India and travels annually to India to teach, train the consult with the Jungian Developing groups at several centers in India including Ahmedabad and Mumbai. He leads the annual “A Jungian Encounter with the Soul of India” study group to several centers in India under the auspices of the New York Jung Foundation and the Carl Jung Institute of Chicago. His publications and upcoming programs may be previewed at www.pathtothesoul.com
