2023 Swami Padmanabha

A recurring question and therefore a shared concern during Swami Padmanabha’s visit to Switzerland, is asked regarding the relationship between love of God and love of our friends, family and all life. It is posed that it is easier to love God because he doesn’t have an ego. Swami considers how God not having an ego might make loving him even more challenging.

Additionally, how can we say we love God and treat each other so horribly.

Also discussed is the idea of perfection being everywhere as spoken by Srila Sridhara Maharaja, “Perfection is everywhere. The trouble is that with our limited thinking we have produced a world of limits.”

Another topic explored is the struggle for the sadhaka to deal with the discrepancies of the early stages of bhakti—between where we are and where we want to be as far as aligning our behavior with our ideals. How can we coexist with that discrepancy so that we don’t torture ourselves by that nor grow complacent? We can be thankful that we are not cheating ourselves into thinking we are doing everything perfectly…because we are not. To acknowledge that and hold onto the gifts that are continually coming - that is heroic.

Tune is for the discussion.

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wisely noted that, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." This is expressed in its fullest reach in lila, where being fully human and fully divine are fully integrated and humanness is part of one’s eternal identity. As bhakti is not a means to an goal, there is a place to consider form not just as a means, a vehicle, but rather part of the goal: to not stop being human but to be FULLY HUMAN in context of our spirituality.

Although the atma is not human, but rather consciousness, in perfection, being infused by bhakti shakti, it will be given an identity of human form to participate in lila. As practitioners we are meant to embrace our humanity in the context of our practice, and our practice in fully consideration of our humanity, neither pursuing one in exclusion of the other, but always united both in one pursuit.

From now until nara-lila, it is all about humanity and the only way to reach that experience in lila is to start here.

Listen-in…

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Celebrate the gift of Haridasa Thakura, his life and death, each phase found within the other, and the unique, powerful and rich lessons that can be drawn and applied to the life (and death) of a practitioner.

Tune in for the treasure…

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

• 7:25 Q&A - Opportunity for Sacred Exchange
• 16:09 How Tota Gopinatha is proof of Mahaprabhu's success
• 22:23 Because I see the deity, does that mean it appeared in my heart first?
• 23:28 If Krishna values everyone, why are our relatives as insignificant?
• 31:42 The generous vision of Krishna and the sadhus
• 35:27 How can we aim at seva in eternal lila if we are not ready for that now?
• 51:50 Do we have to like every sadhu?
• 1:08:37 How to Forgive Ourselves?
• 1:18:56 What is the allegorical meaning of the advanced symptoms of bhava?
  

Tune in for further exploration…

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Swami Padmanabha shares how Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s life and journey is something we can relate to as a sadhaka and draw hope and inspiration to nourish our own progress.

Some of the lessons we can draw from Bhaktivinoda’s values, visions and practices:

• the guru does not need to be a nitya-siddha and even if your guru rejects you, you can still reach perfection.
• being a grihastha speaks against the necessity for asceticism—all perfection can be attained in social position
• trans-institutional commitment - he did not belong to any institution and felt that the life of a tradition is in the commitment to persons, to hearts,, to an ideal
• reformer - because of his love for the Gaudiya tradition, he criticized it strongly, as persons entrusted with leadership are called to do
• alive interaction with modernity—he felt a necessity to find a new language to explain the constant evolution of reality, with “today’s perfection becoming tomorrow’s imperfection”, and to be in sync with the concerns and capabilities of the time, place and circumstance he was in.
• pioneer - in 1896 (the year that Srila Prabhupada was born) Bhaktivinoda Thakura sent McGill University in Montreal his book Lord Chaitanya, His Life and Precepts which they placed int their library. Consider how consuming was the task to explain Gaura-Gadadhara’s heart to someone from a different culture who has not background in Gaudiya Vaisnavism
• Inter-religious theological cross-pollination - the Thakura saw the potential of deepening one’s love for the form of their worshipable Lord by going to another’s place of worship
• allegorical presentation of scripture that created a connection between lila and the life of sadhakas

and much more…

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Because of the nondual foundation of the Sweet Absolute, all of his incarnations are different forms of the same person, different aspects of himself in reciprocation with the love of each devotee. We can understand avatars as being different emotional moments of Bhagavan.

Swami Padmanabha poetically draws out how each of 10 avatars of Bhagavan are displayed by Mahaprabhu. From Matsya to Kalki, Mahaprabhu expressed each of those emotions at one time or another.

Being the Appearance day of Vamanadeva, further detail is shared regarding Vamanadeva, known as the Dwarf Avatar, his relationship with Bali Maharaja, and additionally the disciple’s aspiration to remain committed to truth, even if that means rejecting their guru—as Bali rejected Sukracharya because Sukracharya advised Bali to take action against his truth and integrity.

As Bali Maharaja offers his own head in service, he beautifully displays the devotional quality of atmanivedanam, offering one’s self in our full unique service capacity.

In the beginning, when first meeting Vamanadeva, Bali Maharaja was unaware that Vamanadeva was his worshipful Lord. So one might wonder what occurs in a sadhaka’s life that allows them to recognize the active presence of the Divine. One aspect is to keep your eye on the bigger picture and become aware of any patterns that have lead you to the place you are today, how everyone has a purpose. It is in connecting with the purpose of events, we can connect with the person who is behind them.

Tune in for further exploration…

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Sri Gadadhara-katha continues as Swami Padmanabha and associates further explore of the confidential nature of Gadaira-Gauranga and how this very specified lila is particularly inspiring for sadhakas who have come to the shore of Gaura-lila, by grace of guru, sadhu, parampara, and are receiving the knowledge that such a thing exists. And not only that, but the corresponding opportunity to offer some service to Mahaprabhu.

Tune in for further exploration…

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Gaura-lila has a broad side and a deep side. This class explores the deep side of Gaura-lila through Sri Gadadhara, without whom the success of the lila could not have been achieved.

Tune in as Swami Padmanabha speaks of the very unique and specific necessity of Gaura-lila and what that necessity requires from both Sri Radha and Krishna, as well as how those specific necessities creates very specific service opportunities.

The more we conceive of God as atmarama, self-satisfied, the less we feel ourselves in service to the Supreme Personality. And the more we understand that Atmarama as being immersed in an experience of love that creates its own set of intense needs, then the more opportunities the sevaka will have to offer themselves in service.

The moment of greatest necessity will increase the greatest necessity of service, and therefore, the greatest opportunity to serve.

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Swami Padmanabha discusses how Sri Radha is to be found in the Srimad Bhagavatam and how her love for Sri Krishna can only be understood with the proper feeling; if the heart is not in the right place it will be impossible to penetrate into the mysteries of her love for Sri Krishna.

Many facets of this loving relationship are explored and lessons are drawn from the lila that are applicable for the sadhaka.

Discussing lila is not a source of entertainment, or something to enjoy, but it bares a deep commitment. We are celebrating the possibility of glimpsing at this highest love of Sri Radha. If this direction is something that is inspiring to us, we can pray to receive some mercy in the form of adhikara to get closer in this direction and ask ourselves what we can do to gradually get closer to that realm of service?

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Sharing hearts by sharing personal doubts, concerns, and different perspectives.

Tune in for the reflections...

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join in the celebration of the celebratory movements of Divinity as they express the fullness of personhood exchanged through love.

In today’s honoring of Lalita Sakhi and her special role in both Krishna-lila and her expansion into Gaura-lila, many facets of radical personalism were discussed in nuanced ways:

• How much do we relate with divine persons as persons, rather than merely to concepts, or ideas that exist beyond the clouds.

• If we approach Divinity as a passive concept and do not go beyond the collection of technical information about him/her/them, so that the information transforms into a relationship, then we are missing the potential and highest reach of that knowledge.

• How love without suffering is not love, and how to understand this in a way that makes us embrace the possibility rather than run from love

• It is our responsibility to make the needs of those we serve our needs

• How the psychology of Lalita Sakhi plays a unique and crucial role in her serving the necessity of the Divine Couple

• Lalita Sakhi is the acarya of “creative tension”

• As sadhakas we can approach our lives in the same way by allowing our problems to be moments of creativity, an invitation to redefine our conception of life; how we conceive of things—obstacles, certainty, suffering, vulnerability, humanity, divinity, love

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha at Ananda-dhama in Switzerland as he and friends explore:

• the deep, radical, connection between radical personalism and Sri Radhika
• who we are as persons has its root in Krishna
• who is the Absolute and who am I in relationship with him
• how the nature of being is always in a process of becoming
• the role of humanity in spirituality
• how our connection to each other is by listening to each other’s stories
• how Sri Krishna lost himself by stepping into Sri Radha’s love story, and lived thru her heart as Mahaprabhu

During the conversation, probing questions arose:

• if we in our fullness as persons is so wonderful, then why do most people NOT want to be persons?

• people have agency, but if we have agency then how can nothing be out of our control?
• if the nature of being is change, then why as a tradition are we not excited about that?
• how do traditions empower individuals?

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha and a group of practitioners gathered together in France as they continue to discuss how lofty ideas can be brought to earth and played out in every day life; the role of rules, the heart, and the color of the cloth you wear; does peeling potatoes please God?

Class given in France.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Swami Padmanabha speaks about the importance of unifying what we consider our "spiritual" life and our "worldly" life. Everything is interconnected and exists in relationship with other things. An important aspect of life is to integrate our spirituality with our humanity—these two are not opposite, but rather, perfectly compatible. Spiritual practice means to awaken to the reality that everything is connected.

Bhakti is not something we do, but how we live our lives.

Class given in France.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Tune in as Swami Padmanabha offers three ways to approach the Srimad Bhagavatam: literally, interpretively and esoterically. And futher draws lessons applicable to practitioners thru an interpretive approach to 3 specific lilas revealed in the Srimad Bhagavatam:

DAMODARA-LILA, from which among many lessons held there, we are able to get a glimpse into the paradox of how being tied can actually increase one's freedom, and how this, in turn, can teach us how to approach rules so that we are not bound by them, but rather experience more freedom through them. Additionally and very importantly, this lila demonstrates that unconditional love does not demand perfection. "First become perfect, and then I will love you" That is not unconditional love; that is ridiculous.

GOVARDHANA-LILA, from which we can learn, among many things, how to navigate the storms of our lives, and to be open to the shape of shelter that might differ from our expectations.

RASA-LILA, from which we can catch a glimpse of the mysterious unfolding of our own spiritual journey. The path of love is crooked, and these curves create blindspots. There are times when it appears that we are farther than ever from God, as if the Divine has just disappeared from our lives. But is that the case, or is he closer than ever?

Class given in France.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha as he dips into the paradox of knowing through unknowing. How much can we know of an unlimited Divine Person who is constantly and continually becoming more himself in love. To think we know god because we have some information about him, even highly detailed information, is not the end of, and may not even have anything to do with, developing a transformed heart.

God is the ultimate mystery and we have to be ok with mystery and not driven by a need for certitude, to cancel darkness and liminality. For most, mystery is to be solved, closed so that our vulnerabilities need not be disclosed.

Certitude stifles our progress. Co-existing with Mystery creates the space for spontaneous wonder, adventure and discovery.

Class given in California, USA.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha as he explores the connection between vulnerability and empowerment in relation to radical personalism—there being no limit to how much of a person we can be in relation to divine love.

Class given in California, USA.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Radical Personalism means to relate in personal terms to everything, with everyone—beginning with ourselves—and our connection to the Divine. There’s no limit in how much of a person we can be. Now is the time to inquire into the Absolute, the Divine and the soul. And “now” speaks of not only having a human vehicle, but the necessity and preliminary stage of having our humanity in place, of behaving as fully human as possible so that we may be as fully spiritual as possible.

Join in the conversation which reverses the misconception that the more spiritual you are then the less human you have to be. As humans, we have double homework: we are already spiritual, but how much are we aware of our spiritual identity and our prospect and potential? We have a human vehicle, but what are we doing with the vehicle? How much is that translated into humanity, to human character, to human relationships. Our ongoing challenge is to integrate the two—fully human and fully divine.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

“Bali Mahārāja, along with all the priests, ācāryas and members of the assembly, observed the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s universal body, which was full of six opulences. That body contained everything within the universe, including all the gross material elements, the senses, the sense objects, the mind, intelligence and false ego, the various kinds of living entities, and the actions and reactions of the three modes of material nature.”

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

“The unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead, who had assumed the form of Vāmana, then began increasing in size, acting in terms of the material energy, until everything in the universe was within His body, including the earth, the planetary systems, the sky, the directions, the various holes in the universe, the seas, the oceans, the birds, beasts, human beings, the demigods and the great saintly persons.”

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

This lecture is the second of a series of two presented in the Radical Personalism Retreat, organized in Michigan during July 28-30th.

“With things that are highlighted or even absolutized, there is the potential danger of misrepresentation, inaccurate expectations, and over-idealization. In the guru-disciple relationship these dangers are posed not only by the student but sometimes even by the teachers themselves. Since a crucial aspect of Radical Personalism is addressing what’s not being addressed but needs to be, in this [class] we will unearth some important but often unexplored issues—and tissues—involved in this unique relationship. Our hope is that as Gaudiyas we can address, conceive, and embrace this divine principle in the healthiest and most committed way. “ Quote from:

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

This lecture is the first of a series of two presented in the Radical Personalism Retreat, organized in Michigan during July 28-30th.

“With things that are highlighted or even absolutized, there is the potential danger of misrepresentation, inaccurate expectations, and over-idealization. In the guru-disciple relationship these dangers are posed not only by the student but sometimes even by the teachers themselves. Since a crucial aspect of Radical Personalism is addressing what’s not being addressed but needs to be, in this [class] we will unearth some important but often unexplored issues—and tissues—involved in this unique relationship. Our hope is that as Gaudiyas we can address, conceive, and embrace this divine principle in the healthiest and most committed way. “ Quote from:

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

The beautiful necessity of bringing questions to the table opened the sharing in this istagosthi. Without sincere inquiry—which is more about disclosure than a quest for facts—there would be no Bhagavad-gita. Krishna would have said a few lines and that would have been the end of it. But because Arjuna—as well as Pariksit in the Bhagavatam and many others—revealed his doubts, his brokenness, his despair, not only did it allow Krishna to address our shared human predicament, but he also established that vulnerable disclosure of one’s heart—emotions and thoughts—is the currency of reciprocal revelation. Ask something that is relevant to our inner life so the teacher can have an accurate idea of where you are and know how to respond.

Tune in for balanced, sensitive, nuanced and radically personal responses to the following questions that shift the entire perspective of the question to look at our approach to life in whole new ways.

Should we avoid people from out past so we don’t get “pulled down” into past behaviors or lower energies?
What to do if we are distracted from our practice?
How to deal with doubt?
What is the best way to study scripture so that we can go beyond jnana?

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RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha and friends as they excavate the topic of saintliness in relation to personalism, and, therefore, impersonalism as well, as it is there that we might more recognize our own participation.

During this conversation, a saint, or sadhu, is described as a person who is a thoroughly honest person, not just looking so on the outside but honest in their inner life as well, recognizing who they are as a person.

Turning to Bg. 9.30, Krishna explains that, although we may have very bad behavior, but are determined to love him exclusively, then we are saintly already, being honest about where we are.That honesty is saintliness—bringing our brokenness to the table and trusting God's love and unconditional acceptance of how we are right now. This is personalism.

However, although in name being personalists, we sometimes behave in depersonalized ways through our actions.

Tune in as the group discusses some ways we show up impersonally in four relationships in our daily lives:

—with ourselves
—with others
—with the world
—with god

And join in the conversation by sharing in the comments other ways we show up impersonally in these relationships.

“How can we be all that we can be today—not tomorrow, but today—as living emblems of devotion, and then facilitate that epiphany in others? What are the fullest implications of being a person, and, even more so, what are the implications of God being a person? What is the highest prospect for these two uniquely personal beings when they relate to each other through love, the most personal of all fundamental interactions?

This is Radical Personalism.”

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

In this class, Swami Padmanabha addresses a current collective belief within the Gaudiya community that this created world and everything in it is mundane, profane, bad and must be rejected. This perspective colors how we approach every aspect of our lives—how we relate with divinity, the world, our family, our body, mind and emotions; how we love, who we love, if we love—morphing the prospect of bhakti from seeing God everywhere through proper acceptance and integration to seeing God no where through abject rejection and evacuation. That’s not bhakti; that is something else. The proposal is Radical Personalism, exploring how personal we are in relation to this world, tt the realm of matter.

As Gaudiyas who have a goal of entering nara-lila where Krishna is being very human and fully divine, we have to do something with our humanity right here and now. Considering that every corner of this world is the potential birthplace of the Kingdom of God, going “there” does not necessitate “leaving here,” but rather continually arriving.

For Krishna, there is no distinction between matter and spirit. He affirms this world as an overflow of his joy, and enters into each atom, making each unit of creation an embassy of the Lord. Additionally, he chooses to come to Earth to stage his lila eternally, and asks all of his friends and most dear associates join him. So how bad could it really be?
How do we harmonize a statement such as “This world is temporary and miserable” with “The whole universe is an abode of joy”?

This and other questions by participants are sensitively responded to, such as:
-Does love in this world have any value?
-What do we do with statements portraying Maya shakti as a witch

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha and a group of inquisitive and receptive participants in this many-branched discussion that not only moved within the topic of nondual thinking and learning from traditions other than one's own, but was actually an organic demonstration of these principles in motion.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha as he explores the limit—or lack of limit—as to how much we can become persons.

Is the self like an onion, the more layers we remove, the less there is to find? Or does something else happen in relation to the self—is there more, or less, when layers of temporary designations are removed?

Although we are persons, how much of an individual are we? how much of a personalist are we?

Tune in…

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Join Swami Padmanabha, Jaya Jagannatha and Tamala Krishna as they share their perspective on Sri Guru, the disciple and the deeply penetrating relationship between the two, drawing from ancient stories and teachings as well as their own experiences, making those teachings relatable and relevant to us today.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Swami Padmanabha explores the Nondual perspective of Divinity and how having a nondual perspective is crucial in the unfolding of ourselves as persons in deep relationship with other persons, including the Supreme Person. If we do not have our appreciation of the Sweet Absolute’s nondual reality in place, then we may start to see the Absolute in dual terms. And that’s a problem. Perceiving an over-localized god who exists in one form only, in one place only, effects our relationship with God, with the world, with each other and our own self, promoting sectarianism and exclusivity, building walls and borders and boundaries.

Tune-in to hear the implications and misconceptions surrounding the reality of nondual Gaudiya Vedanta.

RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion.

Swami Padmanabha begins an exploration of Revolutionary Spirituality with a quote from his book, RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion. "Although this book addresses relative necessities, such as updating the language we employ to convey ancient concepts in postmodern times, it mainly tries to encourage the development of a spirit willing to keep up with the pace of transcendence. Transcendence is unlimited, which means we’re called to ever new horizons of understanding. We’re to keep pace with an ever-evolving reality that we are part of, with an ever-evolving God we are tied to, and, thereby, with an ever-evolving tradition through which these very principles are revealed to us. Thus, the tradition needs to remain ever-evolving if it’s to accurately represent an ever-evolving proposal such as (among other divine portals) Gaudiya Vaishnavism."

What´s Radical Personalism All About?
June 30th, 2023

As the Radical Personalism Tour begins, Swami Padmanabha begins to explain the origins, meaning and implication of being radically personal.

Swami Padmanabha joins Vaishnava Voices Podcast to talk about his new book RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion, and how he personally dealt with the question: "Should I stay or should I go?" in moments of crisis.

Guaranteed to be of interest and import for those within the tradition and those who are presently outside any institution but still feel some affinity for the essence of their tradition.

OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH OF RADICAL PERSONALISM: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion

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“A New Way to Participate in Lila—Here & Now”

Lecture 25 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion”

“OUR GAUDIYA HEAVEN IS HERE ON EARTH”

Lecture 24 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion”

SRI NARASINGHA CATURDASI 2023

The Spiritual Sacredness of the Material World - May 2, 2023

Lecture 23 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion”

CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER (part 2): Developing a Contemplative Mind - April 24, 2023

Lecture 22 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion”

CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER (part 1): The Art of Sacred Appeal - April 18th

Lecture 21 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion”

DIVINE IGNORANCE (part 3): The Dark Night of the Soul - April 11th, 2023

Lecture 20 of the Series "RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion"

DIVINE IGNORANCE (part 2): Knowing Through Unknowing, Paradox, and Chaos

Lecture 19 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion” given on April 4th, 2023

DIVINE IGNORANCE (part 1): Can Be Faith Nourished by Doubt?

Lecture 18 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion” given on March 28th, 2023

GURU-TATTVA (part 7): Spiritual Bypassing Between Guru & Disciple

Lecture 17 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion” given on March 21th, 2023

GURU-TATTVA (part 6): Codependency VS Healthy Surrender

Lecture 16 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion” given at Radha-Gopinatha Mandira on March 14, 2023

GURU-TATTVA (part 5): On Being Reject by One´s Guru

Lecture 15 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion” given at Radha-Gopinatha Mandira on March 7, 2023

GAURA PURNIMA 2023: “Sri Gaurangadeva: The Istadeva of Radical Personalism”

Lecture given at Radha-Gopinatha Mandira, Alachua, FL on March 6, 2023

GURU-TATTVA (part 4): On Leaving One´s Guru

Lecture 14 of the Series “RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion” given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on February 28, 2023

GURU-TATTVA (part 3): The Absolute & Relative Sides of Sri Guru

Lecture 13 of the Series "RADICAL PERSONALISM: A Transformative Reframing of Experiential Devotion" given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on February 21, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 12: GURU-TATTVA (part 2): Is Sri Guru Fallible or Infallible?

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on February 14, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 11: GURU-TATTVA (part 1): The Difference Between guru and Sri Guru

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on February 7, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 10: NONDUAL THINKING (part 2): Learning from & Complementing from Other Traditions

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 31, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 9: NONDUAL THINKING (part 1): Everything Is One, But Never Impersonal

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 24, 2023

Main topics:

• 0:00 Mangalacarana, Summary of Last Week´s Lecture & Introduction

• 15:11 Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Nondual Tradition

• 31:47 Examples of Nondual Thinking in Our Gaudiya Tradition

• 40:50 The Dangers of Being Part of an Extremely Specified Tradition

• 52:59 Why It is So Difficult for Us to See our Nondualistic Side as a Tradition?

• 1:06:07 Further Consequences of Remaining in Dualistic Thinking

• 1:19:45 Conclusion

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 8: “INDIVIDUATION (part 2): “The Role of Human Emotions in the Life of a Sadhaka”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 17, 2023

0:00 Mangalacarana & Summary of Last Week´s Lecture
9:31 Introduction: There is Not Such a Thing as Bad Emotions
33:46 Human Emotions Are Not to Be Repressed, but Expressed
58:39 Conclusion

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 7: Individuation (part 1), How to Complete Our Personality in Divine Service

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 10, 2023

/ 0:00 Mangalacarana, Summary of Last Week´s Lecture & Introduction
/ 21:32 Divine Humanism in Raga-bhakti
/ 40:30 Let´s Begin by Establishing Where We Are Today
/ 49:13 Give Yourself the Freedom to be All that You Can Be
/ 57:28 The Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supreme Personality of Ourselves
/ 1:10:49 Responsibility, Meaning, and Purpose as the Price to Pay for Individuation
/ 1:20:44 Conclusion: Learn to Respect Your Individuality

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 6: “Vulnerability & Empowerment (part 2), The Beauty & Terror of Inner Nakedness”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 3, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 5: “Vulnerability & Empowerment (part 1): Staying Strong by Embracing our Weakness”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 27, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 4: “Reasons to Remain or Leave as a Gaudiya Vaisnava”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 20, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 3: “The Collective Unconscious of the Gaudiya Sampradaya”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 13, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 2: “Holy Shift: Upgrading our Gaudiya Paradigm”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 6, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 1: “Upgrading My Loyalty as a Gaudiya by Critiquing My Own Tradition”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on November 29, 2022