meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Ram Dass Here And Now

Ep. 220 – Hearing Your Dharma, Hearing Your Part

Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember

Ram Dass, Religion & Spirituality, Newage, Wisdom, Society & Culture, Ram, Ramdass, Hinduism, Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ram Dass talks about what it means to hear our dharma and our part in the dance and why we need to listen to our hearts to hear which spiritual method is the right one for us.

Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/ramdass

Want to be part of the discussion about this episode of Here and Now? Join the Ram Dass Fellowship virtual meetup on March 7th at 3pm EST, sign up for the General Fellowship group here to receive more information.

In this episode, Ram Dass explores:

  • The intensity of the melodrama of life, and why the game only gets interesting when we have total involvement with no attachment
  • Hearing our dharma in order to hear our part in the game; even Ravana and Richard Nixon were just playing their parts
  • The impact that coming into contact with so many different teachers and methods had on his spiritual development
  • Spiritual transformation and issues of faith
  • Listening to the heart to hear which spiritual method is the right one for your personal journey

“To look at the universe and see all of the forces – the heavy ones, the light ones, the destructive ones, the creative ones – to find what your part is in it. And if your part is that of the Bodhisattva, that of reducing the suffering of all human beings, and that’s all your work is, you just do it and do it and do it until there is no you in there, there is merely this instrument for the relieving of suffering of all beings. And that is one of the parts of the dance, of which another and equally important [part] of the dance is that which creates all the suffering in the universe. That’s what’s so far out about it.” – Ram Dass




See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

To look at the universe and see all of the forces, the heavy ones, the light ones,

0:08.0

the destructive ones, the creative ones, to find what your part is in it.

0:13.0

And if your part is that of the bodhisattva, that of reducing the suffering of all human beings,

0:21.0

and that's all your work is, you just do it and do it and do it until there is no you in there.

0:26.0

There is merely this instrument for the relieving of suffering of all beings,

0:30.0

and that is one of the parts of the dance, of which another and equally important of the dance is that,

0:36.0

which creates all the suffering in you.

0:42.0

That's what's so far out about it.

0:57.0

Welcome everyone to another Rambdas here and now episode.

1:02.0

I'm Jackie DeBrenska your host and you all are the Rambdas Satsang, a sacred community.

1:09.0

Today we are diving into episode 220, hearing your Dharma, hearing your part.

1:15.0

Dharma is always this complex topic, and it's also one of the most popular,

1:20.0

because I think most people are concerned about knowing what is theirs to do,

1:25.0

what is the reason the atra, sorry about my French, but that reason for being.

1:34.0

I think our culture often conflates like purpose with career or job or even role.

1:41.0

But in this episode, Rambdas reminds us that there's so much more to it than that,

1:45.0

and there's many layers and pieces.

1:48.0

He talks about this tendency we have to fall into polarities,

1:52.0

what we consider right or wrong or good or bad,

1:55.0

and that the divine perfection has many, many faces,

2:00.0

and some of them seem prettier from our point of view than others.

2:06.0

He talks about it in terms of rays, and I think about the Jesus or Savior ray or the Judah

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.