ISTAGOSTHI: Questions and Answers with Swami Padmanabha — April 27, 2024

0:00 Swami Padmanabha invites all to participate in this exchange of questions and answers in a mutual reach into the potential of relating with one another—to awaken, acknowledge and celebrate the fact that everything is interconnected as we explore the reach and depth of that connectedness in the ocean of TADATMYA—empathy. What’s the heart? What’s my heart? What am I in potential? What are you? And what can happen when multiple potentialities combine with each other under the banner of TADATMYA: empathy, openness and relationality? Istagosthi is the online laboratory to explore this.

03:17 Swami shares news of his upcoming lecture series on place of self-love in Bhakti—is it possible beyond narcissism?; as well as the progress of his current book, now writing about how matter is not as inert as we may think.

05:31 How can we devotionally approach and conceive of the limits presented to us due to aging or chronic illness?

26:32 How should we interpret and harmonize these two statements: “the guru is a representative of god” and “the guru is a manifestation of god”?

49:34 Could you explain how we are to meditate on the meaning of the holy name while chanting japa?

01:05:57 Sometimes we hear that we should not desire to go to Goloka Vrindavan—that that is a selfish desire—and also the opposite: that we should intensely desire to go there. Can you please speak about this?

01:24:52 How can we relate to difficulties so that we do not fall into victim-consciousness?

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