Living as a Hindu: The Reality | Thinking Bhakti Podcast EP7 

As a Swaminarayan devotee myself, I very much support your mission. Mature seekers in Sanatana Dharma will always love and be drawn to other mature seekers. We each understand the importance of Ishwar, Brahma, Parabrahma, Maya, Jeeva, Guru and so on. The actual "names and forms" we give to these is surely important so that we can maintain single-pointed bhakti, but the mature amongst us realise that other seekers may use different "names and forms", and it is in no way contentious. I pray to Swaminarayan sure, and you pray to Krishna sure, but we are both praying to the same paramatma tattva. With love.

Such a great topic.... My brother in law is hindu and he sometimes jokes that i am more hindu than him... I love this conversation and I will share it with my family. Thank you soooo much for this.

Jai Gurudev ❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷😊thank you so much

Looking forward to having Swami Chidananda on the Namarasa Podcast... its in talks.

Jai Gurudev, thank you for this interesting episode!

Bravo. Amazing. I’m one of those Hindu/Christian’s here in America. All His creation. Many Blessings. Just LOVE 💜

I cannot wait for the philosophical debates on the Mahabharata for sure. Jai Gurudev

Another great, thought provoking discussion. Helps me immensely as a teacher, and a devotee. Thank you. Jai Gurudev!

Very nice episode!

Pranams Swamijis 🙏

Love what you said about the unity of Hindus, Swami Revatikanta. We need to celebrate our similarities, disregard differences and work together to push on Sanatan Dharma. I'm 51 minutes in and its a great episode with so many nice points.

These talks you hold offer immense content and clarify so many things that we as Westerners do not relate to and do not understand. Thank you for your work

This podcast is so underrated. So many vital points addressed not only in this episode but others also . Love the work u r doing hare krishna hare rama 🙏🏻 maharaj jii can u plz do one on the philosophy and the origin, path , destination of the bhakti marg . Hare krishna 🙏🏻

Jai Gurudev Chida Swami

Another great discussion. Would love to see you two discuss the Mahabharata🙏

Jai Gurudev!! ❤❤❤

Jai Gurudev ❤️🙏

Hare Krishna This is a very open and interesting podcast, i'm looking forward to Namarasa podcast hope it happens Yes definitely a need to be more united and have a greater understanding between each group propergating Krishna consciousness Thank you for sharing

Jai Gurudev ..this us exactly what I went through I life . Thank you Guruji for giving me the courage and strength to know the truth ..and in so doing removing my ignorance.. . ❤

❤ It was a great episode. There were so many inspirations. Once again I appreciated the clarity and the sincerity you both have. Much love ❤

Awesome sause ❤Jai Gurudev 🎉

Cant wait for new episode about Mahabharat war 🙏jai gurudev

Lovely conversation and I agree we should unite. I mainly speak on advaita vedanta on my podcast but I love your kirtan, i love your conversations! There is a lot more that unites us!

Thank you for this discussion. 🙏💠✨

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Om Namo Narayanaya

I like the way it wraps. In the end it's about freedom from suffering and experiencing love. We should focus on people's desire for these things and not get preoccupied by the perceived barriers

jai gurudev

Thanks a lot for those podcasts, they are all amazing and I was also toucht by the love in this one. You Brothers are wonderful and so clever and full of love, very inspirering ❤💥

jai Gurudev ji.i am a Hindu born and raised in India. i am 30 years old and i am doctor by profession. My family is very traditional hindu. my father and mother both chants Bhagwan name daily and do pooja daily but they are not so much educated so they havent read any scriptures. i was curious about deites and GOD. I love Lord Shiva and i have natural inclination towards him. so I started reading and I read bhagwat Geeta, 3-4 main Upnishads, Shiv Mahapuran and few other spirtual books. As you talked about this inner detachment. i feel this detachment of myself from outer materialistic things. i practise meditation and mala Japa every day. offcourse it benefited me many ways i am more calm, i am aware of my surroundings and many other changes i feel inside me. but the problem is i dont if these are problems or not but i continuously struggling within myself. like i havent been able to establish any romantic relationship like my thoughts dont match with the girls that i had dated. like i found many of them shallow i am not desrespecting anyone here but i mean i cant connect with them. and i think i dont want to marry anyone but as like all indian families my family also want me to get married. I dont know what to do its like very confusing for me because i havent been able to connect to anyone and i am afraid of marrying any stranger arranged by my parents. and second prblm as i am practicing meditation from last few years i have got few abnormal experiences during deep mediation which my mind cant understand and i dont have any GURU so i dont know what to do. when i got those experiences i got scared and stopped meditating because they effect my mind and body i cant sleep after that. from last few years i am searching for a Guru a master who can guide me and the i found your channel and bhakti marga channel. and since i have seen Guru Paramhansa vishwananda ji i am feeling a natural attraction towards him. i hope one day i will have his grace i will meet him. Thank you for these wonderfull podcasts that you are doing on your channel.

27:39 this thing happens to indian because 90 percent of hindu temples are under government control means government take money from temple(they dont take money from church or mosque) and use that money for schemes thats why hindus dont have gurukul,goshala &govt schemes are mostly against hindus like hajj subsidy, salary to maulana,51000 for graduated muslims and many things

The fact thst India exists today shows that Hindus are far more united than they are divided. Hindus are fiercely individualistic. So, it ismt not veru easy to get them to unite. It is a double edged sword. But sooner or later we will all realize what binds us Clearly

I try to follow Dharm, i.e. Dharm, Arth,Kaam and Moksha

We are NOT naive Swamiji. Indian American are well informed and well educated, and well versed with philosophical aspect of the Vedanta including Vishishtadvaita. We are not monks. However, it doesn’t meant we are dumb. We are aware of the Shastras. And there is nothing wrong going to the Mandir as cultural celebration.

Sanathan Dharama

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38:59 great point

I didn't know that Hindus were so divided. What is the position of Indian communities, in general, especially in the West, regarding those who are not Indians but want to become practicing Hindus? Are they welcoming to 'converts'?

Who is saying Dwaraka Krishna vs Vrindavan Krishna?

Indian youth is self deprecating because we have not received the education that makes us proud of our Sanatan dharma . Our education system is extremely westernized since the British raj Prior to that by the Muslim invaders who have dedlstroyed everything. Our culture , places of education . Places of worship all has been destroyed through thousands of year . Hopefully it will get restored as more of us are becoming aware of the richness of our Sanatan dharma

People have different intenses to follow certen guru as long it serves their purpose. Many instutions like ISCON have many groups once the guru is no more It's may be human weakness or maybe it's nature's rules to have diversity. It may seen in every Religion and every organization as it grows, it brakes into sects and subsects it may be I feel nature's own way to devide and differenceate between ideology. There is no Religion in the world which hasn't have groups till today. You may notice one bagwatgeetha is preeched by different guru's basically same philosophy.

20:47 swami ji exposing BJP RSS hypocr!sy

We are NOT naive. We survived +1000 years of persecution. Spirituality also reflected in our behaviors. Your claim we ONLY go to Mandir for cultural purposes and we are not spiritual is FALSE. ONLY wearing saffron clothes and putting Shri Tilaka doesn’t reflect spirituality. We live in the modern world, follow strict diet & Gita and we are karma yogi, Bhakti yogi and we are SPIRITUAL.

Wow.. are you really asking where our connection to our spiritual institutions disappeared? Are we really hearing this? Lot of respect for both of you btw.. but may be Islamization, colonization and installation of colonial proxies generation after generation have not just eroded but razed our systems to the ground. It is a wonder that we are as much culturally rooted as we are, coz if it was anyone else, they would have vanished, never to be seen. Like the zoroastrians or bahais or coptics etc.

We are similar to stool as well it comes from our back side. Namarasa crossed the red line . So it was all sentimental before, not actually rooted in sastra. Very disappointed!

If Viswananda is paramahamsa then I am Bhagavan .....o foolish souls!