• PART ONE - WHAT IS FREEDOM. What is the craziest, wildest and most wonderful thing you could possibly do? What's the greatest expression of power that you can manifest as an individual person restrained, as we are, by physical, mental and societal boundaries. In this podcast Stevie Saranga argues that the highest fulfilment of our freedom is to render service in all humility to our fellow humankind, and ultimately to God.

Usually quiet and reserved ex-monk Stevie Saranga has started to podcast.  

 Having spent fifteen years cut off from the world in an isolated religious enclave, Stevie feels it is time to come out of the cocoon, spread his wings, and try to fly.

Frozen out of speaking opportunities at his cloistered hindu community, Stevie shares his aspirations to help others , and talks about his romantic dream to establish agrarian economics to relieve the unabated cost-of-living crisis.

Stevie describes the sombre culture of speech within orthodox monasticism and hopes to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious compadre Jay Shetty, to stand up and be counted. 

When Stevie was a teen, he heard the words of Oasis, that ring out in echo now. “Take some time, to make some sense, of what you want to say. Send your words away upon the waves. . . We're all part of a Masterplan.”

Some of the topics covered;

Silas and the motif of rebirth in religious conversion, in ritual and realisation.

The church of Saint-Sulpice and the Christian adoption/continuity of pagan sites and festivals: moral progression or moral regression?

'God's hand on earth': is religious violence a hypocritical contradiction or devout and faithful followers wielding God's power to uphold divine justice?

Natural philosophy, the birth of science and the political suppression of intellectual culture in medieval Europe: is anarchy the dharmic duty of the intelligentsia?

Why does matter have the categorical distinction of being feminine? -Mother Earth, neo-paganism, and devil worship in a hindu context.

Trying to understand Christian pascifism: voluntary victimhood or passive resistance?

And the Holy Grail: the eternal quest for universal spiritual emancipation.

The sound quality deteriorates at 48 minutes but picks up again at 1hr 5 mins. Sorry about that.

Stevie Saranga discusses his work history through temporary agency work, quitting many positions until deciding on a career as a monk.

Stevie Saranga tells the story of his positive homebirthing experience

Stevie Saranga presents his theory of an ancient cultural connection between east and west.

Stevie talks about his childhood hero Robin Hood, and his explorations in druidry and neo-paganism in Edinburgh in the 2000s.

When Stevie moved into the monastery it

Upon moving into the ashram, Stevie, as an apprentice monk, was under strict orders to study only beginners books, but together with a friend he sneaked into a secret room in the monastery and found fifteen 90 minute tapes telling the story of Lord Ramachandra. He listened to these tapes whilst he was working in the monastery gardens, and whilst he was