714. Nishanth Selvalingam

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

A lifelong student of philosophy and comparative religion, a practitioner of Shaiva Tantra in the Shaiva Siddhanta lineage, and recent entrant into the Ramakrishna lineage by his guru, Swami Sarvadevananda Puri, Nishanth Selvalingam shares an authentic, firsthand approach to the Sanskrit texts of the Tantrik scriptural tradition to expose audiences to the profoundly positive and transformative philosophies and practices that this tradition offers. Nishanth Selvalingam graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Philosophy in 2024 and now lives in Westwood, Los Angeles where he hosts satsanghs with his wife, coaches middle school debate and lectures incessantly on all things Tantra and Non-Duality. Website: nishyoga.com Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded August 18, 2024

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:28.2	My name is Rick Archer.
0:30.3	Buddha at the Gas Pump, in case you haven't watched one of these before,
0:33.3	is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people.
0:38.9	And we've done over 700 of them now.
0:42.1	If this is new to you and you'd like to check out previous ones,
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0:53.7	We'll be updating the website
0:55.0	in the next couple of months, so forgive the bland appearance of it. It's been that way for
0:59.9	many years, but we're going to update it. One feature that I like to mention these days is that we
1:05.9	have something called the Batgap bot, which is an AI chat bot. You can find it under the menu of that name.
1:11.7	And it produces much better results to spiritual and philosophical questions than you're likely to
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1:23.0	try it out. It continues to develop as AI continues to develop at light speed.
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1:50.8	Okay, my guest today is a very interesting fellow named Nishselvilingum, nicknamed Nish the Fish.
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