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:















Mangalacarana, Summary of Last Week´s Lecture &amp; Introduction

Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Nondual Tradition

Examples of Nondual Thinking in Our Gaudiya Tradition

The Dangers of Being Part of an Extremely Specified Tradition

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

Further Consequences of Remaining in Dualistic Thinking

230131 Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 10: NONDUAL THINKING (part 2): Learning from & Complementing from Other Traditions

Swami Padmanabha is an author, monk and renowned practitioner of the ancient mystic tradition of Bhakti Yoga in America and Europe.

His versatility is displayed in different areas, being a prominent speaker, prolific musician, scholar in different disciplines and leader of spiritual communities.

He was born on November 15th in 1980, in a loving and simple family that gave him a formation with beautiful values ​​and ideals. From a very tender age, a strong thirst in relation to truth and life´s ultimate purpose awakened in Swami, which led him to travel different paths.

His restless intellect led him to deep studies and contact with different ascetic disciplines. In this search he got in touch with the message of the Hindu Devotional Vedanta (also called bhakti), which would eventually become his spiritual path for life.

At the age of 19, Swami begins his priestly life and at the age of 28 he officially accepts the order of sannyasa, which teaches about how to move in the world without becoming attached to it.

Swami Padmanabha keeps developing and encouraging innumerable projects linked to philosophy, psychology, art, and, especially, he carries out a broad campaign of social awareness through multiple discussions, seminars, retreats and articles in social media. He is also engaged in academic circles. 

Author of Inherent or Inherited: Bhakti in the Jiva According to Gaudiya Vedanta