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The Rama Rahasya Upnishad is an authoritative source of Lord Ram's worship methods. It is a minor Sanskrit text that is part of the Atharva Veda. The Ram Rahasya Upnishad unfolds the mystical mantras of Lord Rama, promising not just a change in life but a profound shift in perspective, offering a transformative lens for one's journey.

To know more about ''Bhagwan Ram ke Icchapurti Mantra'' listen to 'What Is The Logic' with Dr. Shisham Aggarwal now available on all audio platforms.

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The Essays of Francis Bacon are a compilation of short ideas that cover a wide variety of topics. These short essays are filled with history, wit, and great information that provide a rich literature experience. From references to Plutarch's Lives to the Islam religion these essays have stood the test of time. His writing style is unique and the words he uses seem to be chosen very carefully. Hope you enjoy reading Francis Bacon!

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The Fragments of Epictetus are some great words of wisdom from a great stoic. Sadly there are not many of the fragments that were saved so we only have a few to read through. Epictetus's wisdom shines through them though. Hope you enjoy the Fragments of Epictetus.

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• Alexander Hamilton: https://amzn.to/44pzKn7
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The trial and death of Socrates is a remarkable story about one man's decision to defy the mob of society and choose truth over unrighteousness. So many lessons can be pulled from the story such as sacrifice, justice, betrayal, and corruption. The simple act of telling the truth can make waves that can last for thousands of years.  The conversation he has with Crito is one of steadfast courage in the wake of an unjust government.  Where are the men like him today? God only knows.

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Welcome to Clairannoyance, a podcast of spiritual interference. In the first-ever episode, get to know hosts Megan Lund and Ryan Marquardt as they break down the purpose of this podcast and tell you what to expect as this illusion-busting journey takes off. From here on out, we're traversing one dark corner of the spiritual world to the next. Consider it a giant middle finger to love and light.

Key Takeaways:

• What took so dang long for this podcast to finally launch?
• Who the heck are these people?
• Are they seriously into spirituality? It kinda sounds like they hate it.

Additional Resources:

• Clairannoyance Instagram
• Clairannoyance TikTok
• Clairannoyance Website
• Megan's Instagram
• Megan's TikTok
• Megan's Website
• Ryan's Instagram
• Ryan's TikTok
• Ryan's Website

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Animals suffer at the hands of humans every day. Not just in factory farms, but also in our homes, where pets don’t receive enough attention or exercise, and in our oceans, where humans disrupt their habitats and ecosystems. To what extent should animals have rights? In this special episode, we speak to world-leading philosopher Martha Nussbaum, professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, and author of Justice for Animals. Nussbaum expands her theory into why politics and law should redirect our ethical responsibilities towards animals.

Money is not everything but it is something.  While most of us agree on this basic statement, we still do not quite understand what is the right relationship to have with money.

How much money is too much money?
How much money is enough?
What is the right way to think about money?

These are some questions that remain perpetually unanswered for a lot of us, in the busy lives that we lead these days.
 

With the employee performance appraisal season right around the corner in the Indian economic cycle, money is definitely one of the hot topics flowing around. And there wouldn't be a shortage of questions and concerns that pop up in our minds about it.

Am I getting paid enough?
Should I switch jobs?
Will that promotion make it all worth it?
Should I look out to get a higher salary or benefits?


All of these are important questions. And there are better answers to them than "It depends." or "It's all relative".

We just need to open our eyes and see things the way they are, not the way we think they are. Let's spend some time doing just that.
Tune right in.

I'll see you in the playground.

<Outline>

(00:00)    Highlight
(00:42)    Why this topic?
(03:10)    A quote (and a lesson) from the 1800s
(05:58)    The modern predicament of discontentment
(11:43)    The need to wake up
(12:25)    Advice #1 - Externalisation
(13:38)    Advice #2 - Limits
(15:10)    Advice #3 - Comparisons
(16:51)    An extremely important unlearning
(17:42)    A short zen story
(19:35)    Closing

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Check out all of my work on my website -
https://chetannarang.org/

For one-on-one personal sessions for philosophical mentorship & counselling with me -
https://chetannarang.org/nondual-philosophical-counselling-mentorship/

Connect with me, Chetan Narang, on Instagram here -
https://www.instagram.com/nrng.chetan/

Checkout The Unlearning Playground YouTube channel here -
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheUnlearningPlayground

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Credits for the beautiful soundtracks:

"Dreamer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Reaching Out" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Want to thank yourself later for having spent some quality time on the internet finally? You are at the right place.

Unlearn with me at The Unlearning Playground Podcast.

Let's get to the root of philosophy, spirituality, self, god and all of that jazz while never letting go of the truth in favour of what's comfortable.
Let's unlearn our biases and delusions and attune ourselves to critical thinking.
Let's step up our games so we can collectively play the game better.
Let's get into the playground.

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Check out all of my work on my website -
https://chetannarang.org/

For one-on-one personal sessions for philosophical mentorship & counselling with me -
https://chetannarang.org/nondual-philosophical-counselling-mentorship/

Connect with me, Chetan Narang, on Instagram here -
https://www.instagram.com/nrng.chetan/

Checkout The Unlearning Playground YouTube channel here -
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheUnlearningPlayground

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Credits for the beautiful soundtrack:

"Dreamer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Jason Read to talk about how to understand work in the 21st C.

In this episode, Jason Read (Philosophy, University of Southern Maine) joins us to examine the Boots Riley‘s film Sorry To Bother You (2018) and what it might be able to tell us about the dystopic situation of the 21st C. worker. Why has it become so important that the worker demonstrate that they “love” their work? How much of our work demands “emotional labor”? Why is it necessary for (some) workers to abdicate their real or “authentic” voice in order to survive? How have we become so accustomed to accepting less and less, even as more and more is demanded of us?

Are workers in the 21st C. just a pot of boiling frogs?

Full episode notes at this link:
http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-39-work/

If anyone asks me what is the one thing everyone should realise but doesn't, I would send them this episode of mine. There is of course a lot of unlearning that needs to happen to really enable absorbing all of it and let it change the way you perceive the world, and that is exactly what The Unlearning Playground is all about.

The separation fallacy is one of the most fundamental ways in which the truth evades us, but it is so hardwired into the way we lead our lives that it is almost impossible to see that it is indeed a fallacy. An important fallacy, no doubt, but like all fallacies, it comes back to bite us when we forget its true nature.

I talk about what the ancient Hindu, Zen and Buddhist saints meant when they said, "Be one with everything", and what we need to unlearn to really understand that.

I talk about what Alan Watts meant when he said, "You do not come into this world, you come out of it."

Hope I did a good job. Only one honest way to find out and tell me. Dig in.

If this episode resonates with you, and makes you ripe for more unlearnings,  would recommend going through the next series of The Unlearning Playground episodes too right away.

Let's play the game the better way.
I'll see you in the playground.

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Check out all of my work on my website -
https://chetannarang.org/

For one-on-one personal sessions for philosophical mentorship & counselling with me -
https://chetannarang.org/nondual-philosophical-counselling-mentorship/

Connect with me, Chetan Narang, on Instagram here -
https://www.instagram.com/nrng.chetan/

Checkout The Unlearning Playground YouTube channel here -
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheUnlearningPlayground

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Credits for the beautiful soundtracks:

"Dreamer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Reaching Out" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

There is an old Buddhist quote that says, "Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning."

I, Chetan Narang, firmly stand by that quote as I introduce you to my podcast, The Unlearning Playground. 

More often than not, the biggest blocker standing between us and the truth is our idea that we already have it. Getting to the truth then, is more an act of unlearning falsities rather than learning anything new. This podcast is an attempt from my side to collate a whole bunch of things that one has to unlearn before starting to call oneself a mature adult in the real sense of the term. 

On the surface, this is a philosophy and spirituality podcast.

At its root, it is an everyday life podcast and my aim is to bridge the gap between our everyday lives and philosophy. And the tools I use for creating this bridge is modern scientific understanding of the world as well as ancient perennial wisdom majorly inspired from eastern spiritual traditions such as Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism, etc.

This episode is a brief introduction to what The Unlearning Playground is all about and what to expect from the content you're about to consume.

 Dive right in.

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Check out all of my work on my website -
https://chetannarang.org/

For one-on-one personal sessions for philosophical mentorship & counselling with me -
https://chetannarang.org/nondual-philosophical-counselling-mentorship/

Connect with me, Chetan Narang, on Instagram here -
https://www.instagram.com/nrng.chetan/

Checkout The Unlearning Playground YouTube channel here -
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheUnlearningPlayground

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Credits for the beautiful soundtracks:

"Dreamer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Reaching Out" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Co-host Leigh M. Johnson is in the hot seat for this episode's discussion of digital afterlives. If we consider the "digital," information-based self to be distinguishable from the meatspace self, we should ask: how long can the Digital Me live on after my meatspace body dies? Technology already enables us to "re-animate" archives of personal information in many ways, and some futurists believe that we may, someday, be able to upload our consciousnesses to the cloud. Who owns that information? What are they currently allowed (or not allowed) to do with it? What would happen if we insisted that all of our information being "deleted" after we physically die?

Whether or not you believe in a Heaven or Hell, all of us need to think more seriously about our digital afterlives. Rick, Charles, and Leigh work through some of that thinking-- and much more-- at the hotel bar!

Check out the links below to learn more about thinkers and ideas referenced in this episode:

• Maggi Saven-Baden and Victoria Mason-Robbie, Eds., Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age (2020) 
• Rebecca Skloot, The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks (2011)
• origin of the term "meatspace"
• A visualization of the length of Terms of Service for 14 popular apps
• Tupac hologram performs with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at Coachella 2012
• "Facebook told to grant grieving mother access to daughter's account" (The Guardian, 2011)
• Black Mirror episode "Smithereens" (on IMDB, or watch the episode on Netflix)
• Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message (2001)
• "Everything You Need to Know About Twitter Direct Messages" (Livewire, 2020)
• What is data anonymization?
• "What Really Happens To Your (Big) Data When You Die?" (Forbes, 2017)
• "What Happens to Your Email and Social Media After You Die?" (MoneyTalks, 2020)
• "What Happens To Your Medical Data After You Die?" (The Medical Futurist, 2021)
• What is commodity fetishism?
• U.S. House of Representatives' antitrust report on Big Tech
• Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" (1988)
• What is content curation?
• "Computerized job interviews: Artificial intelligence algorithm may judge you, determine whether you get hired" (Chicago Tribune, 2021)
• "Google's Grand Plan to Eradicate Cookies is Crumbling" (Wired, 2021)
• How to recognize a phone scam
• "Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse" (VentureBeat, 2021)
• "Black and Queer AI Groups Say They'll Spurn Google Funding" (Wired, 2021)
• Nick Bostrom, "Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up" (2006)
• HBO series Years and Years
• "The race to stop ageing: 10 breakthroughs that will help us grow old healthily" (Science Focus, 2021)
• Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles

Check out this episode on the HBS website here.

This episode explores the political and ethical dimensions of the category of “citizen”. In anticipation of his soon-to-be-released book Beyond Civil Disobedience: Social Nullification and Black Citizenship (August, 2021), Charles sits down in the captain's "hot" seat for this episode's discussion of the limits of citizenship, the failure of the state, and the construction of new categories of political, social and civic identity. Millions of people have taken to the streets in protest over the last decade. What are the questions those citizens are asking about the failures of their government? What do these protests say about how we think about the relationship between individuals and their communities, and the relationship of those communities to the State? How can we develop a more robust conception of engaged, healthy, responsible, and critical citizenship?

"The people who are protesting have an amazing, although critical, view of the reality of citizenship, but they also have a very optimistic, idealistic sense of what citizenship should be. I think moving into the streets shows an amazing investment in what the society can be, an investment in trying to get the apparatuses of power to live up to the rhetoric of democracy and freedom and what it means to be a citizen in this type of state."
= Charles F. Peterson

Full episode notes available at this link.