2023 Swami Padmanabha

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 10: NONDUAL THINKING (part 2): Learning from & Complementing from Other Traditions

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 31, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 9: NONDUAL THINKING (part 1): Everything Is One, But Never Impersonal

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 24, 2023

Main topics:

• 0:00 Mangalacarana, Summary of Last Week´s Lecture & Introduction

• 15:11 Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Nondual Tradition

• 31:47 Examples of Nondual Thinking in Our Gaudiya Tradition

• 40:50 The Dangers of Being Part of an Extremely Specified Tradition

• 52:59 Why It is So Difficult for Us to See our Nondualistic Side as a Tradition?

• 1:06:07 Further Consequences of Remaining in Dualistic Thinking

• 1:19:45 Conclusion

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 8: “INDIVIDUATION (part 2): “The Role of Human Emotions in the Life of a Sadhaka”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 17, 2023

0:00 Mangalacarana & Summary of Last Week´s Lecture
9:31 Introduction: There is Not Such a Thing as Bad Emotions
33:46 Human Emotions Are Not to Be Repressed, but Expressed
58:39 Conclusion

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 7: Individuation (part 1), How to Complete Our Personality in Divine Service

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 10, 2023

/ 0:00 Mangalacarana, Summary of Last Week´s Lecture & Introduction
/ 21:32 Divine Humanism in Raga-bhakti
/ 40:30 Let´s Begin by Establishing Where We Are Today
/ 49:13 Give Yourself the Freedom to be All that You Can Be
/ 57:28 The Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Supreme Personality of Ourselves
/ 1:10:49 Responsibility, Meaning, and Purpose as the Price to Pay for Individuation
/ 1:20:44 Conclusion: Learn to Respect Your Individuality

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 6: “Vulnerability & Empowerment (part 2), The Beauty & Terror of Inner Nakedness”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on January 3, 2023

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 5: “Vulnerability & Empowerment (part 1): Staying Strong by Embracing our Weakness”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 27, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 4: “Reasons to Remain or Leave as a Gaudiya Vaisnava”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 20, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 3: “The Collective Unconscious of the Gaudiya Sampradaya”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 13, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 2: “Holy Shift: Upgrading our Gaudiya Paradigm”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on Dec 6, 2022

Radical Personalism Series, Lecture 1: “Upgrading My Loyalty as a Gaudiya by Critiquing My Own Tradition”

Lecture given at Ananda-asrama, North Carolina on November 29, 2022