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Previously, the Sufi Reverberations Podcast featured a poem, a story, a meditation, and a musical interlude that gave expression to one Sufi's reflections concerning the mystical dimension of Islam. The tenor of the Podcast has changed, and instead of presenting the sort of usual formatting that was noted earlier in this description, the Sufi Reverberation Podcast will give expression to commentaries of various kinds that explore a variety of different topics. The length of each program will ...
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The Sufi Heart podcast with Omid Safi features teachings and stories about a sacred tradition of love, one that manifests outwardly as justice and inwardly as tenderness. Drawing primarily on the wisdom of the Islamic tradition as well as the legacies of the Civil Rights movements and other wisdom teachings, Omid invites you to a meditation on the transformative power of love and recalling the necessity of linking healing our own hearts with healing the world. Omid Safi is director of Duke U ...
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Sufism is one of the paths that explains and guides us towards our inner spiritual being, to that part of us that is beyond the senses. It brings us to a place where there is the possibility of experiencing an entirely different way of existence. This is an inner journey that opens our hearts to the treasures found within the qualities of God. Sufism explains that to do this we need to change our focus from an elemental existence to a spiritual existence.The Sufi path teaches us that there i ...
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Over the last two years Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee has written a number of stories about returning our consciousness to the living Earth, a numinous world alive in both matter and spirit. As we travel through the darkening days of the present time there is a primal need to find a pathway back to this landscape, experienced through our senses and our dreams. These stories are both simple and radical, simple because they describe what is already around us, the wind in the trees, water ...
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Just another human spiraling down into abysmal reverie. He calls himself Leander. Day after day, someone finds a cassette with his voice and uploads it here. No one knows why these were made, but it sure is funny to hear him ramble as if he understands the world. *Pshaw He claims to have a silly notion that philosophy, psychology and myths and folklore will save him from damnation. It's hilarious as he tries to make sense of the world which left him behind. So give it a listen when you're sa ...
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Blood Brothers Podcast is the official podcast of 5Pillars News, hosted by journalist Dilly Hussain and his younger brother Aki Hussain. The show discusses a plethora of political, religious and socioeconomic issues affecting Muslim communities in the West and the Muslim-majority world with experts, influencers and professionals.
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A Sufi perspective on the true nature of reality and secrets of a faqir that 99% of people don’t know about. I explore my mind and astral dimensions and reveal insights and hidden knowledge. Cover art photo provided by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@coopery
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A podcast created and produced by Imran Ali Malik. "The combination of intentional and aspirational representation, the lived experiences of Malik and his guests, and dynamic storytelling that switches between first and third-person narration create a show that unfolds in real time. Imran Ali Malik has created a wildly diverse yet cohesive show that invites the listener — no matter who they are and what their background is — to participate in the experiment of life alongside him." - L.A. Rev ...
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These podcasts are designed to provide listeners with teachings from great spiritual Masters and to create a meditative mood so that the meaning can go deep and enter your heart. These podcasts are not monetized. If you enjoy and benefit from these recordings you are welcome to contribute to the daily running costs of our hermitage. Donations for this purpose can be made via PayPal using the link: https://paypal.me/VivekaHermitage or become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/jayasara Find me ...
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Path & Present is a long form conversation hosted by poet, emcee, and teaching-artist Baraka Blue with friends and guests including artists, musicians, authors, and scholars to collectively explore what it means to walk a path of awakening and spiritual discernment in the modern world. Topics covered include spirituality/religion/metaphysics, community, art/music, psychology, social justice, Islam and Muslims in the West, and earth stewardship. **Path & Present** Is a community endeavor prod ...
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On alternate Sundays between 8-9 pm listen to " Rhythms India " on CiTR Radio 101.9FM - Producer and host - Nalini Bhui. Rhythms India is a dynamic show that presents several genres of rich Indian music in different languages, poetry and guest interviews as well. Presented are: Dance, Folk, Qawwalis, Traditional, Bhajans, Sufi, Rock & Pop. Also, semi-classical and classical Carnatic & Hindustani music and old Bollywood numbers from the 1950s to 1990s and beyond. Enjoy pure instrumental items ...
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Akbar’s Chamber offers a non-political, non-sectarian and non-partisan space for exploring the past and present of Islam. It has no political or theological bias other than a commitment to the Socratic method (which is to say that questions lead us to understanding) and the empirical record (which is to say the evidence of the world around us). By these methods, Akbar’s Chamber is devoted to enriching public awareness of Islam and Muslims both past and present. The podcast aims to improve un ...
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Voicecraft conversations expand how the world is known, featuring luminary voices across themes of cultural, philosophical, and existential importance. The pod is appreciated by listeners who value the artful relating of intellect and intuition, thinking and feeling, body and spirit. The podcast features: - Generative dialogues that seek the depths of insight and understanding - Live event content filmed with an audience - Group dialogic experiments and expeditions produced by the Voicecraft ...
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Tarot has been utilized for centuries for divination, but did you know tarot is also an effective tool for healing? Dr. Heather Hardison, a clinical psychologist and divination enthusiast, chronicles her personal tarot journey and offers tips twice a month to help you start your own tarot journey for emotional healing, personal development, or increasing intuition along with tips on resources, spreads, and unique ways to apply tarot in a modern lifestyle. Whether you are beginning your tarot ...
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The life stories of the great sages, saints, gurus, and incarnations or avatars. In this podcast series, RajShree Maa will be narrating all about a Sage, Saint, Guru and an Incarnation or Avatar. Sage: A sage is a Wiseman who has the wisdom and knowledge about the Truth of God. Examples of sages are Chanakya, Hemadripant, Confucious, Tsun Zu. A sage is also a philosopher like Aristotle or Socrates. Saint: A saint is a person who has manifested to serve the purpose of the divine Lord Almighty ...
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Gooroe Ex Creaturae philosophy recalls an era before the various pursuits of fun – science, motorcycling, singing, jamming, writing whatever – were marketed into fundamentalist factions. All are welcomed under the Gooroe roof, where there’s simply respect for the honesty and enjoyment of the artwork. Inclusiveness, authenticity, enthusiasm. It’s a simple and sincere pitch that has winged Gooroe across community. Gooroe says simply there’s no ‘right way’ to do individualism, its all the same ...
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A place where we discuss it all! ANYTHING goes! We dive deep into topics that will help you along your journey, to raise your vibration and help you step into your power. It is time to live from heart, remember who you are and why you are here! Check out the website for more info…. Summer Break-Podcast Season 2 will be released August 2022. https://adventuresinawakening.com/ Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adventuresinawakening/support
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"Heard/unheard - The Lit Studio" is a podcast hosted by Vikram. With a Ph.D in literature, passion for poetry and love for theatre, this lit-prof brings for his listeners some heard/unheard stories about authors and their works ranging from Rumi, Amir Khusrow, Ghalib, Manto, Jaun Eliya and Muktibodh among others. Each episode will unravel a new writer. Traversing languages and cultures the podcast will take you on an engaging literary journey. Follow me on: Instagram.com/vsthakur01 Twitter.c ...
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Carolina Desis Gurtej Singh and Rashmili Vemula explore life as the children of Desi immigrants in today’s America. Constantly immersed in and inspired by two contrasting cultures, these South Asians raised in the American South discuss their experiences with “living a double life” and the challenges in reconciling the cultural and societal differences surrounding them daily. Thought-provoking, sharp, and occasionally silly, Gurtej and Rashmili question and flesh out the South Asian experien ...
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In this episode, Dr. Sandhya S. Pai recites her very famous editorial Priya Odugare- S1EP- 378: ಸೂಫಿ ಸಂತ ಹಾಗು ಅವನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕ | A Sufi saint and his book of loveಒಂದಾನೊಂದು ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸೂಫಿ ಸಂತನಿದ್ದನಂತೆ, ಅವನಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಗ್ರಂತವಿತ್ತು ಅದನ್ನ ರೇಷ್ಮೆಯ ವಸ್ತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಸುತ್ತಿ ಇಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದ, ಕಣ್ಣ ರೆಪ್ಪೆಯಂತೆ ಬಲು ಜತನದಿಂದ ರಕ್ಷಿಸ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದ, ಯಾರಿಗೂ ಅದನ್ನ ಮುಟ್ಟಲಿಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿಡ್…
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In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent British scholar Shaykh Asrar Rashid. #BloodBrothersPodcast Topics of discussion include. 15 Hanafi fiqh questions. Can Sunnis have any meaningful unity? Success of Salafi duat and dawah in the West. Obeying, criticising and rebelling against Muslim rulers. Shaykh…
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Hakim Sana’i, the first major Sufi poet to express the message of the radical spiritual revolution that would be carried on later by such voices as Attar, Rumi, and Hafiz, delivers the punchy nectar of divine intoxication that comes of annihilating the ego. Even a few bullets from this ecstatic shotgun of Truth can do the job on any ego who listens…
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Pushing beyond the bare minimum of religiosity, Omid Safi inspires listeners to deepen their faith into an ecstatic adoration of God. Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow In this episode of Sufi Heart, Omid Safi elucidates : Isla…
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A reading of selected excerpts from the Record of Linji. The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen’s ba…
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In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University of California Press, 2023), Damani Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold…
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This powerful teaching is taken from an advanced weekend seminar. Get the complete audio-video package in our store: https://bit.ly/one-concept-av Our mental narratives transfigure infinity into a bardo state. We become enslaved to our own preconceptions and self-fulfilling prophecies. At each assemblage point, the kundalini becomes configured by a…
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In this episode, Dr. Sandhya S. Pai narrates very famous Mahabharata S3 : EP - 33: ಬ್ರಹದ್ವಂಶ ಹೇಳಿದ ನಳನ ಕಥೆ | The story of Nala ಕಾಮ್ಯಕವನದಿಂದ ದ್ವೈತ ವನಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದ ಯುಧಿಷ್ಠಿರಾಧಿಗಳು ಕೆಲ ಕಾಲ ಸುಖವಾಗಿದ್ದರು, ಅದರ ಸುಂದರ ವಾತಾವರಣ ಸಾಕಾಗುವಷ್ಟು ಆಹಾರ, ಮುನಿಜನರ ಸತ್ಸಂಗವಿದ್ದರೂ.. ದೇಶ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟರಾದ ನೋವು ಅವರೆಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಒಳಗೊಳಗೇ ಬಹಳವಾಗಿ ಕಾಡ್ತಾ ಇತ್ತು, ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ ದ್ರೌಪದಿ ತನಗಾದ ಅಪಮಾನವನ್ನ ನ…
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A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) uses graffiti and street art to explore the urban imaginaries of vio…
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In her formidable and fiercely well-argued new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2022), Divya Cherian shows with meticulous detail and in lyrical prose, the processes and practices that contributed to the emergence and hardening of an exclusivist Hindu identity set in o…
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The path to psycho-spiritual freedom goes through the portal of dispassion. Once the attention abides in stillness and can no longer be captured by thoughts and emotions, the greatness of the Self is revealed. Learn More About Shunyamurti: https://shunyamurti.org/By Shunyamurti
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In this episode, Dr. Sandhya S. Pai recites her very famous editorial Priya Odugare- S1EP- 377: ಮುಖವಾಡದ ಬದುಕಿನಿಂದ ಹೊರಬರುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ ? | Photo studio storyಫೋಟೋ ಸ್ಟುಡಿಯೋ ಒಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂರು ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ರೀತಿಯ ಫೋಟೋ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಡಲಾಗುವುದು ಎಂದು ಇದನ್ನು ಕಂಡ ಒಬ್ಬ ಹಳ್ಳಿಗನಿಗೆ ಒಬ್ಬ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಆದರೆ ಮೂರು ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಬಗೆಯ ಫೋಟೋ ಹೇಗೆ ಎಂದು ಅನುಮಾನವಾಯಿತು. ಇದನ್ನು ವಿಚಾರಿಸಲೆಂದು ಸ್ಟುಡಿಯೋ ಒಳಗ…
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Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism (Oxford UP, 2023) is a contemporary ethnography of class mobility among Hindus in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Focusing on women in Pulan, an emerging middle-class neighborhood of Udaipur, Jennifer D. Ortegren argues that upward class mobility is not just a socio-economi…
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Nice is not enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High (University of California Press, 2023) by Dr. C. J. Pascoe is a provocative story of contemporary high school that argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good. Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from…
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In this time between stories, where are the visions to guide us, the dreams to follow? How can we understand the conflicting forces that define our world and our shared future without this deeper wisdom? We have to learn once again how to listen to the rivers and wind, and to open the door to the visionary worlds that guided our ancestors.…
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Kathrin Eitel's book Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh (Routledge, 2022) examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through 'infracycles', maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postco…
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Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics or sovereign power. Or has it? In Rooted Globalism: Arab-Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries (Indiana University Press, 2022), Kevin Funk challenges the commonsensica…
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This is a guided meditation on the power of listening as an effective means of entering into a meditative state. It encourages a gentle letting go of our reactivity to the sense world, and to the thoughts, concepts and the labels we attach to conditioned phenomena; and to finally recognise and rest into the continuity of Awareness as the background…
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In the southern Philippines, the Bohol community speaks a language they say one man, Pinay, created long ago, leaving it for a modern Filipino named Mariano Datahan to rediscover and reenliven. The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Piers Kelly tells the story of the Eskayan language …
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Moisés Kopper's Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing (U Michigan Press, 2022) examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years. Drawing on a five-year-lo…
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In Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022), Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. Boa documents various forms of queer performance - including music, film, theatre, and political activism - in the first two decades of the twenty first century. In doing so, Bao argues for the importance of perform…
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Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devote…
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Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 –1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. He initially came to the West as a representative of several traditions of classical Indian music, and established an order of Sufism (the Sufi Order) in London in 1…
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In this episode, Dr. Sandhya S. Pai recites her very famous editorial Priya Odugare- S1EP- 376: ದೇವರು ಅವಕಾಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕೊಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಕಣ್ಣುತೆರೆದು ನೋಡಬೇಕಷ್ಟೆ | God gives opportunities ಒಂದು ಊರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬ ದುರಾದೃಷ್ಟವಂತ ಇದ್ದ ಸರಳ, ಸಜ್ಜನ ಆಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಆತನಿಗೆ ಕಷ್ಟಗಳು ಹಾಸು ಹೊಕ್ಕಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಹೀಗಿರುವಾಗ ಆತನಿಗೆ ಒಬ್ಬರು ಸಂತರು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದರು. ಮುಂದಾನಾಯ್ತು ಎಂಬ ಸುಂದರ ಕಥೆ ಕೇಳಿ ಡಾ. ಸಂಧ್ಯಾ. …
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Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion, An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior (Routledge, 2020) proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution. Looking at both art and religion as closely related, but not identical, …
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In A Book of Waves (Duke UP, 2023), Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at…
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In this episode, Dr. Sandhya S. Pai narrates very famous Mahabharata S3 : EP - 32: S3: ವನವಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊರಟ ಪಾಂಡು ಪುತ್ರರು | The sons of Pandu who went into exileಪಾಂಡು ಪುತ್ರರು ಮೋಸದ ಪಗಡೆ ಆಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೋತು ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ವರ್ಷ ವನವಾಸ ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷ ಅಜ್ಞಾತವಾಸವನ್ನು ಒಪ್ಪಿಕೊಂಡು ಹಸ್ತಿನಾಪುರ ತೊರೆದು ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಇರೋ ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಸಾಲು ಸಾಲಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳು ಅವರನ್ನ ಹಿಂದೆ ಅನುಸರಿಸಿ ಸಾಗಲು ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದ್ರಂತೆ, …
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Dženita Karić's new book Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) maps the diverse understandings of the hajj in relation to Islamic geography by Bosnian Muslim authors who wrote in different genres from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The study captures how hajj was imagined and constructed in relation…
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The psychology of the postmodern ego is so cynical that it can even turn the truth of nonduality into a reason for fear and dissatisfaction. However, knowledge is power. Once we understand the dynamics of the ego mind, we can make alterations in its functioning. And the intellect can deconstruct the ego entirely and sublimate its energies so that c…
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In this episode, Dr. Sandhya S. Pai recites her very famous editorial Priya Odugare- S1EP- 375: ಅವಕಾಶಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಹೇಗೆ ? | How to take advantage of the opportunities?ಒಂದಾನೊಂದು ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಗುರುಕುಲವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಇತ್ತು. ಹಿಮಾಲಯದ ತಪ್ಪಲಿನ ದೇವಾಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಠಾಧೀಶರಿಂದ ಒಂದು ಉಡುಗೊರೆ ತರಬೇಕಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಹೀಗೆ ಉಡುಗೊರೆ ತರಲು ಹೊರಟ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗ…
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In this third podcast series I return to familiar themes: living at the end of an era, in a time of great dying, and yet holding a thread to a living future—a thread woven in ancient memories as well as visions of a new way to live with the Earth and Her more-than-human inhabitants. But this series is also more personal, what it means for me as a m…
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