Personhood is central to the worldview of ancient India. Across voluminous texts and diverse traditions, the subject of the puruṣa, the Sanskrit term for "person," has been a constant source of insight and innovation. Yet little sustained scholarly attention has been paid to the precise meanings of the puruṣa concept or its historical transformations within and across traditions. In Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India (Oxford UP, 2024), Matthew I. Robertson traces the history of Indic thinking

In this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Naomi Worth, a scholar and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism’s postural yoga tradition. We dive into Naomi's experiences in yogic retreats, highlight the vigorous movement and intense visual elements of the practice, and explore yoga’s role in the Nyingma contemplative path. Naomi also shares how she balances her scholarship and practice of Tibetan knowledge with her current work as a high school teacher. Along the way, we mention wrathful deities,

Episode 13 of the conversations between Yogita Pant and Anil Chawla discusses the birth of the eldest son and second son of Maharaj Paandu – Yudhishthir and Bheem. The chapter begins with describing Kaaneen son – someone born to one’s wife before marriage is Kaaneen son of the husband. Karn was Kaaneen son of Paandu. Having been barred from having sexual relations due to the curse of Muni Kindam, Paandu convinced his wife Kuntee to bear child with the help of some other man. Kuntee told her husband

The contributions to Visnu-Narayana: Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023) deal with the complex history of the Indian deity Visnu-Narayana. This conception of God evolved in various traditions in India, especially in South India, during the first millennium CE. The history of this development is reconstructed here by various means, including philological exegesis, the history of ideas, and iconographic evidence. In their

Episode 12 of the conversations between Yogita Pant and Anil Chawla discusses the incident that made Paandu incapable of having a biological child. Paandu spotted a mating deer couple. He shot arrows and killed the couple. It turned out that the deer was actually a muni who used to take the form of a deer. Muni Kindam cursed King Paandu that the King would suffer the same way as the Muni suffered and would die as and when he attempted to have sex. This was devastating. Paandu decided to turn a

In this debut episode, we have the privilege of hosting the esteemed guest, Rati Hegde. Together, they embark on a thought-provoking journey through topics that resonate deeply with today's society. Rati Hegde engages in a candid conversation that explores the pressing issues surrounding equal rights for Hindus, emphasizing the need to free Hindu temples from bureaucratic control. Join us as we dismantle the misconceptions surrounding the narrative of Brahminical patriarchy and delve into the

Bhagwad Gita Episode 44........https://youtu.be/E6iZR-PgOEA?si=jl7LUmju8jh1uTrr

Bhagwad Gita Episode 43....https://youtu.be/f1wI61p5grM?si=ipR-BhmdMM0lCNFx

Between 800 and 1700 CE, a plethora of Mahabharatas were created in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and several other regional South Asian languages. Sohini Pillai's Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative (Oxford UP, 2024) is a comprehensive study of premodern regional Mahabharata retellings. This book argues that Vaishnavas (devotees of the Hindu god Vishnu and his various forms) throughout South Asia turned

Il sassofono di George Brooks è il protagonista della puntata. Strumento inusuale per la classica indiana, Brooks interpreta i raga tradizionali e crea uno stile indojazz unico, collaborando con i musicisti più celebri del subcontinente. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 11 of the conversations between Yogita Pant and Anil Chawla discusses the birth of Kuntee’s first child fathered by Soorydev. In the palace of Kuntibhoj, Kuntee was assigned the job of welcoming guests. A Brahmin named Durwaasaa came to the palace. Kuntee took great care of the Brahmin. When he was leaving, he taught Kuntee a special mantra by which she could call any devata who would come and bless her with a son. After the departure of Durwaasaa, Kuntee got curious and called Soorydev. To

Is reality more than the material? Raj Balkaran holds a fascinating interview with philosopher Bernardo Kastrup on this topic. At the vanguard of the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, Bernardo presents cogent argumentation that reality is essentially mental, and examines the proper place of the scientific method in this deliberation. Bernardo’s research exhibits some astonishing parallels with ancient Indic thought. Bernardo Kastrup is the author of Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A

Wants or Miswants? ::: May 2024 Episode by Neelam Doshi Ji; Gurkaran Singh Ji

Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, May 26, 2024: Discourse by Nirankari Rajpita Ramit Ji

In The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad (Bloombury, 2024), Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern. This book traces a worldview and consonant yoga teaching common to two authors who are typically taken to be oceans apart, not only chronologically but in intellectual stance. Addressing a huge gap in the contemporary

In questa puntata la Sinfonia Nirvana per orchestra e coro maschile del compositore giapponese Toshiro Mayuzumi che unisce la musica avant garde degli anni sessanta alla tradizione del sol levante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 86, this podcast has reached the final concluding teaching. This covers the final advice for peace. BhagavAn who was all along talking in first person suddenly switches to third person. Why so? This is a very subtle and at the same time very important transition in BG. Listen to the episode to understand what is going on. This episode also covers the very popular verse "sarva dharmAn parityaja ...".