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What's Our Lineage?
Season 8 Episode 97
As we come to the end of our 5th Gregorian Calendar Year since we started coming together as a community, I thought now would be a good (and fairly s…
1 year, 2 months ago
Those Who Hate God Will Also Realize God
Season 8 Episode 96
In this talk, we discuss something very edgy and maybe even quite dark: hating God as a legitimate mode of worship!
This is lesser known bhāva is call…
1 year, 2 months ago
Can God Be Your Romantic Partner?
Season 8 Episode 95
In this talk, we discuss a very subtle, high-level and easily misunderstood mode of spiritual practice: madhura bhāva, the practice of seeing God as …
1 year, 2 months ago
How To Realize Kali | Ramprasad's Backstory
Season 8 Episode 94
On the eve of the Mrgaśirsha (9th month of the Vedic Calendar) Amāvasyā (New Moon), we take up a reading from the beautiful book by Swami Buddhanand…
1 year, 2 months ago
Introduction to Tantrik Non-Duality
Season 8 Episode 93
Many people are becoming increasingly familiar with Advaita Vedanta, the classical Non-Duality of Adi Shankaracharya but fewer people are aware that …
1 year, 2 months ago
What Does Kālī Really Want?
Season 8 Episode 92
Time to ask a very important question: what does Mā really want? Last week, we started discussing themes of sensuality and desire in Ma Kali’s iconog…
1 year, 2 months ago
How To Pray To Kāla Bhairava
Season 8 Episode 91
For the auspicious occasion of the Kāla Bhairava Jayanti which also happens to be Mā Siddheśvarī Jayanti, we offer a rather free and somewhat loose …
1 year, 2 months ago
The Secret Teaching of Bhairava
Season 8 Episode 90
After we did our class on how to worship Bhairava (which you can watch here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/secret-mantras-8-116490016?utm_medium=clip…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why is Kālī Desirous?
Season 8 Episode 89
In the first verse of dhyānam (meditation mantra) in the Kālikāshtakam, a hymn to Kālī attributed to Adi Shankara we learn that Mā Kālī is ever desir…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why is Kālī Crazy?
Season 8 Episode 88
The image of Mā Kālī alone is unfathomably powerful in its symbolic richness! Having discussed Mā's iconography at some length in this lecture serie…
1 year, 3 months ago