Swami Padmanabha shares some insight from the class, SELF-LOVE IN BHAKTI: Learning to Relate to Ourselves (part 1), which he gave the previous night introducing another way of speaking about integrative, wholesome and healthy paradigms with which to approach our spiritual life.

Swami spontaneously honors the sacredness of the Istagosthi, describing it as a way of circumambulating with respect and honor the center, our ISTA, the all-attractive Sri Krishna. It is an opportunity to gather together, acknowledging our interconnection with each other around a common center.

What is the importance of Ekadasi? Is it beneficial to myself and pleasing to Krishna if I do something in a ritualistic way, before I feel connected internally?

In RADICAL PERSONALISM, you speak about the nondual reality of the Absolute. What do you mean when you say we must train our minds in non-dual thinking?

How much of our free will is free? What influence do the planets have on our free will?

In the context of self-love in bhakti, how do we love those aspects of ourselves that directly oppose our engagement in spirituality?