<p>GAURA PURNIMA 2023: “Sri Gaurangadeva: The Istadeva of Radical Personalism”</p>

<p>Lecture given at Radha-Gopinatha Mandira, Alachua, FL on March 6, 2023</p>

230307 Radical Personalism Series #15, GURU-TATTVA (part 5): On Being Reject by One´s Guru

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