bhava

Lecture by Swami Tyagananda, given on May 14, 2023, at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston, MA.

How do moods and cultural objects work in the construction of history, politics, place? In this episode, Dipti Khera joins us to discuss her newly published book The Place of Many Moods:
Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century, which deconstructs the affects of the painted letters traditions of Northwest India on the construction of place.

This month’s question:

 

Q) If a person has no soul, what is re-born?

 

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In this podcast:

 

• Discussing: soul, psyche, animus - but is this the same as ‘anatman’?
• The Old English notion of ‘soul’.
• The Wheel of Becoming as the essential teachings of the Buddha explaining how beings arise without agent or ‘do-er’ to make things happen.
• The principles of re-birth as rooted in doctrine of karma.
• The Zen koan, Master Zuigan calls to himself three times.
• The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ of personality.
• Jung and the Shadow.

Brad Willis a.k.a. Bhava Ram is a former NBC News war correspondent who reported from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and beyond. He is the recipient of the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont Award, considered the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, for his work inside Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. Self-healed from a broken back, failed surgery, and cancer, he is now devoted to teaching the sister sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda. He is the founder of Deep Yoga, based in San Diego, the author of two previous books, a spiritual musician, and leader of Mastery of Life trainings, retreats, and workshops in the United States and India.

Immerse your soul in Bhava with song by ShreeMaa for her guru Sri Ramakrishna.

These Arati Songs comprises four hymns of praise and supplication to Sri Ramakrishna and Sarada Devi.
These Arati Songs are sung every evening in almost all the centres of the Ramakrishna Order in India and abroad. They are also sung in the homes of many devotees.
The Songs are available on various websites including the Belur Math website
http://www.belurmath.org/
The first hymn is dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Vivekananda himself composed the text of this song and also set it to music.

The translations have been credited to the authors individually at the end of the lyrics.