111 Culture & Dharma – Honest Talk for Rough Days & Spiritual Fuel

Just an off the cuff unscripted talk, getting personal on spiritual & non-spiritual things. Live 7.4.2024.

0:00 – Intro to unscripted afternoon chat inspired by Yamsox's youtube live stream | Forthcoming roundtable discussion on Bearded Mystic's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UtJxLhxOX0 @YamsoxLives @TheBeardedMysticPodcast | my music youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RockAndDoubleBassWithAaronJoy
9:47 – Experiences with X/twitter | making social media positive
13:12 – India's Hindutva & RSS & Hindu Nationalism movement | "Modi's India" book
15:51 – Hinduphobia in America | criticizing Hinduism for improvement vs destruction | caste system, widow suicide, child brides
18:48 – Offended by religion in yoga | extreme activism vs artistic interpretation
21:19 – Swami Vivekananda's death anniversary | ISKCON & George Harrison | Jonestown
30:06 – Love & lacking self-awareness, knowing yourself | Yamsox (aka Lyam Boylan) | giving advice vs sharing love
37:23 – Advice to young folks frustrated with life & feeling defeated based on my own youthful struggles trying to be someone & do things in community | push negative people away | don't give up but don't go down with sinking ship | reinvent yourself when failing | following goals of others is not you
56:29 – Realizing god & becoming enlightened | not hearing god
59:55 – Different spiritual paths
1:02:43 – Deceptive Christians like missionary Ray Comfort
1:06:13 – Bhakti | reading scriptures
1:08:32 – Playing in a rockabilly band | Willy Martin & the Woods EP | Premanand Swami of Swaminarayan Sampradaya
1:13:54 – Being creative vs other other things | John Cage story | productive use of time
1:18:23 – Current books I'm reading: Reading multiple books simultaneously | Kerouac, reading from "The Railroad Earth"
1:26:15 – Current books I'm reading con't: "Killing Eve" | James Patterson & Bill Clinton | Napoleon's conquest of Africa | Dune | Jerzy Kosinski | Ayn Rand | Ramayana | North Korea's Yeonmi Park's "While Time Remains" | Eliot Ness of Untouchables | Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler | Bill Haley | Doctor Who
1:38:21 – Being like my influences
1:40:03 – 108 Upanishads
1:46:31 – Bhagavad Gita versions | Swami Mukundananda's prose version (available here: https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/) (Texas temple: https://www.radhakrishnatemple.net/)
2:02:31 – Value of chapter 2 in Gita | knowing your duty in spiritual journey
2:10:47 – Closing thoughts | book recommendations
2:18:35 – Osho thoughts (Note: referenced Osho book is "Rebellion, Revolution & Religiousness") | stamp collecting

Find "Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy" book here: https://www.amazon.com/Modis-India-Nationalism-Ethnic-Democracy/dp/9391234844

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I followed the so-called spiritual path—believed everything and anything, joined a cult, and ran in circles. Through honest effort, deep unlearning, and painful self-awareness, I found clarity in Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism).

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