Ep. 238 – Spiritual Work Equals Social Action

Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember

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

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Speaking to us from 1983, a time of widespread fear about nuclear war, Ram Dass explores how spiritual work equals social action, and yet, we can’t just wait until we are free to take action.

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This episode of Here and Now, Ram Dass speaks about:

How spiritual work equals social action
The two ways that the game of awakening is playing out
How Gandhi molded his social action movement, bringing together social action and spiritual work
How the path of social action and the spiritual journey comes down to karma yoga and using the stuff of our life to get free, but we can’t wait until we are free to take action

“And when we are strong enough to look at ourselves, then we will be strong enough to demand truth. But most of us do not have integrity in our own lives. We are all full of righteousness and good here, and right over here we have deception, we have hoarding, we have all kinds of stuff. And to me, in my life, that isn’t good enough, it stinks. I can’t have any room any longer for guilt and self-deprecation about it. I have to appreciate that’s my evolving humanity, but I see where the path of real social action comes. I see what Gandhi’s talking about when he says make yourself into zero and your power is invincible.” – Ram Dass

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0:57.0	Hey everyone, it's Ragu, Marcus Marcus and I'm back with Ram Das here and now.
1:08.4	Little intro. I haven't done this in a long time so I'm kind of happy to revisit because it's always great to go
1:15.5	through Ram doss's different talks. I don't know and I've said this before I
1:22.2	don't know how many times I might have listened to any number of these talks
1:26.2	and listened to a lot of them obviously over the years and I it's a it's like completely fresh sometimes.
1:36.8	When something, you know, he starts talking about something,
1:39.3	I forget that I even listen to this ever before was like new news.
1:44.0	It's pretty great.
1:47.2	So we have this amazing talk because it's so relevant to the terms from 1983 I believe and I started thinking
1:59.2	what was going on then 1983 so long time ago.
2:04.0	So, but I won't disclose what it's about yet and have a couple of comments,
2:11.0	but before I do that, I want to just tell everybody that we have a wonderful
2:20.0	Ram Das Fellowship Talk. It's a free online event and it's November 6th at 5 PM, Pacific and 8 PM Eastern
2:31.6	Time. Frank was a longtime friend of Ram Doss and taught with him and work with him most especially around death and dying.
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