Chandresh Bhardwaj: Break the Norms

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Chandresh Bhardwaj is a globally acclaimed speaker, the founder of the Break the Norms movement, and the lineage-holder of a family of Indian gurus that dates back seven generations. With Sounds True, he has published the book Break the Norms: Questioning Everything You Think You Know About God and Truth, Life and Death, Love and Sex. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Chandresh about the legacy of his family's teachings and what he needed to break away from in order to make his own way in the world. They talk about the paramount importance of knowing the right questions to ask, and how a question can powerfully shape one's spiritual path. Tami and Chandresh also speak on his conception of death and its implications. Finally, Chandresh shares the story of the difficult steps he had to take in his own journey when his inner path contradicted society's expectations. (64 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.
0:14.0	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.0	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today my guest is Chandresh Bardwaish.
0:45.0	Chandresh is a seventh generation Liniatolder from a family of Indian gurus practicing
0:52.1	tantric tradition.
0:54.4	He is an internationally acclaimed speaker,
0:57.3	having conducted talks in many countries,
0:59.6	including Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, India, Belgium, Canada, and in the United States.
1:08.1	He's the founder of the Break the Norm's Movement, with locations in New York,
1:13.8	Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Amsterdam.
1:17.4	With sounds true, Chandresch has written the book,
1:20.9	Break the Norms, questioning everything you think you know about God and truth, life
1:27.5	and death, love and sex.
1:30.9	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Chandresch and I spoke about what norms he inherited
1:36.8	from his family line that he felt he needed to break, and the most difficult part of his journey when it came to following his own inner path
1:47.0	when it clashed with society's expectations of him.
1:51.0	We also talked about the tantric approach to spirituality and what a
1:56.1	tantric way would be to work with anger and also greed and ambition such that nothing is suppressed and the underlying energy
2:06.5	is transformed into a force for good.
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