29 Spiritual Seekers Class 2: Bad influences, addictions, imitation

0:00 – Gayatri mantra, reading from "Swamini Vato"
2:30 – Discernment & awareness of outside influences on our spirituality, example of spiritual influence of Star Wars on culture a (referenced podcast: "New Age Beliefs in Church and Culture: with Marcia Montenegro - The Alisa Childers podcast #32" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GuPGohl4fA)
4:40 – Story of not hearing lyrics of Ghost song "Square Hammer" about Freemasonry (see lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opOQ5VrTxKU)
7:28 – Intro to continuing series of educational readings from Vachanamrutam book for serious spiritual seekers (mumukshus)
9:34 – Reading Gadhada 1-18 con't from Class 1 (episode 27
11:27 – Discussion: Easily addicted to Thailand strip clubs & Japanese sex scene, negative outcomes of addictions
19:27 – Reading Gadhada 1-18 con't20:03 – Discussion: Removing bad people from congregation/religious group before group is corrupted by bad influence, bad people are persuasive
22:33 – Reading Gadhada 1-18 con't
23:13 – Discussion: Keeping bad people in congregation/religious group, evil is contagious and often stronger than good
25:45 – Reading Gadhada 1-18 con't
29:37 – Discussion: Imitation is not successful if we are empty inside, singer mentioned is Leslie DiNicola (https://www.youtube.com/@LeslieDiNicola/videos), letting our outside reflect our inner growth vs imitating on the outside, imitation based on influence of others which changes us on the inside
39:26 – Discernment & awareness is important key to spiritual growth
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