Commonly Asked Questions

Which version of the Gita do you read from?

When and where do you meet?

Do you have to be affiliated with any religion to attend?

What is the ETO Awareness Technique?

Which version of the Gita do you read from?

We read from The Bhagavad Gita, a Penguin Classic translated by Juan Mascaro.

There are many copies of the Gita in publication, and some are very well written.

This particular Gita was selected because the author has offered a simple, yet powerfully poetic translation.  Juan Mascaro spent over 20 years of dedicated devotion in creating what has been argued by many critics to be among the very best English translations available. His intent was to convey the essence of the original in pure, poetic English, and he has succeeded beyond measure. We are indebted to his hard work, and consider ourselves fortunate to have his translation available to us.

When and where do you meet?

Gita Walk takes place on most Saturday mornings from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm.

Please note that sessions may be cancelled due to holidays or other extenuating circumstances. It is best to call before attending to confirm our schedule.

Contact: Freedom A. Malhotra for further details and location. 

Phone: (416) 822-2981

Do you have to be affiliated with any religion to attend?

No, the Gita Walk has something to offer everyone regardless of religious affiliation.  So long as you attend with a mind eager to learn and a heart humble enough to face your truth, you will acquire what you are looking for next along your life journey.  

What is the ETO Awareness Technique?

ETO is an abbreviation for “Enter the Oracle.” An oracle is a source of deep wisdom. In the Ancient world, there were places that had gained the reputation for dispensing such wisdom, as such they became known as “oracles.” In respect with the ETO Awareness Technique, you are invited to experiment with entering the oracle of your own being – the source of wisdom within your own self.

It is not possible to do justice to the ETO Awareness technique with words alone. The technique is meant to be practiced and can only be understood with experience. Nonetheless, we will attempt to give a brief explanation here.

The entire intent of the ETO Awareness Technique is to free your mind to access the truth of your being. The truth is simply what is. Once you define the truth you have distorted it, because all definitions are fabrications of the mind.  To see what is, we must free the mind from its tendency to distort.  Unfortunately, we have become so needlessly complicated that most of us never see what is. We are so entangled in our ideals, judgments, prejudices, denials, repressions, suppressions,  and countless other complicated psychological and emotional patterns that we only see our own projections of reality.

The challenge for us is to simplify the mind so that it can see with absolute clarity. To do so, we must let go of our emotional and psychological baggage. This is a major aspect of the ETO technique.

Most of us have been trained to use our minds ineffectively.  We have been taught to use our minds to determine the solution to a problem.   For most people that probably sounds like a very normal thing to do, but the most efficient and superior function of the mind is to receive, not determine.

This is the dilemma!  If you watch your mind as you try to solve any problem, you will observe how it is conditioned to manufacture or borrow answers from the storehouse of memory or logic. The memory and logic that we have come to depend on is not only faulty, it is of the past.  We superimpose our ideas of the past on the present and never face the truth head on. ETO teaches you how to free yourself from all these mind games so that you can finally see what is for what it is, and learn to receive the truth from your own being. 

Ask and ye shall receive.  All the answers you seek are within you, but you must learn how to ask and receive while avoiding the mental and emotional traps that most of us fall into. The ETO Awareness technique will teach you how to ask and receive the truth from your own being.