Introduction and Update on recent travels

We can witness that there are deep lover’s of God in other traditions, and we also hear that unless someone meets a pure devotee from a bonafide sampradaya, one cannot develop love of God. So how can we understand the deep love practitioners from other traditions develop? And in this context, what is a “pure devotee”?

Swami Padmanabha was asked what are some important questions that he himself has asked which have guided his journey?

If we are practicing bhakti, are we under the material energy, the spiritual energy, or both?

Points of Reflection: In order to unlearn things which no longer serve us and learn things that nourish us where we are now, we have to experience things through a different lens, and check in with ourselves how things that people say lands in us. This brings up the importance of authenticity in order to embody new ways of being..