Ep. 299 – Listening for Your Unique Manifestation
Ram Dass Here And Now
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ram Dass answers questions about spirituality and money, being indecisive, ego trips, listening for your unique manifestation in life, and more.
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This episode of Here and Now comes from a Q&A session with the “unique manifestation” group at a retreat in 1989.
- The first question is about whether it’s possible to grow spiritually and be financially prosperous. Ram Dass talks about playing with our desires and our attachments to worldly things.
- Next up are questions around listening for your unique manifestation in life, how to tell if you’re on an ego trip, and finding your next stage of purpose. Ram Dass tells a story about his “Eight-Fold Bath of the Upper Middle Way”.
- The next question is about whether being indecisive can be part of your unique manifestation. We end by revisiting the first question about spirituality and money. In this society, we’re all up to our eyeballs in desire systems.
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“You have to be ready to know that what you hear at one moment about unique manifestation is gonna constantly be changing and changing and changing. And you’ve gotta be listening afresh all the time. You’re listening for a unique manifestation, meaning that form of expression that will be… it’s the confluence between your karma and your dharma.” – Ram Dass
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| 0:00.0 | You have to be ready to know that what you hear at one moment about unique manifestation |
| 0:09.0 | is going to constantly be changing and changing and changing and you've got to be listening afresh all the time. |
| 0:15.0 | You're listening for a unique manifestation meaning that form of expression, it's the confluence between your |
| 0:24.6 | karma and your Dharma. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to Here and Now with Ram Dass. I'm your host, Jackie DeBrenska, and this is episode 299, listening for your unique manifestation. |
| 0:41.0 | And this one comes from a Q&A session at a retreat in 1989. |
| 0:45.9 | It was a small group. |
| 0:46.9 | They called themselves the unique manifestation group. |
| 0:50.4 | And the premise of this talk, part of it, is how do you live a spiritual life inside a culture that is built around wanting more? Like practically, day to day. Most of us aren't monks. We have bills. We have things we want. And if we're honest, some of those things feel pretty reasonable. Safety, health, a stable place to live, less financial |
| 1:12.0 | stress, maybe some breathing room so we can actually do things that feel meaningful. But then the |
| 1:18.8 | question is, where does that end? How do we know when we have enough? How much of what we think |
| 1:24.8 | we need is actually coming from our soul's desire and how much of it is just the water we're swimming in, the ego grasping. |
| 1:33.8 | This is not a new problem. We've been wrestling with this for as long as there have been societies built around accumulation, which is a pretty long time. |
| 1:43.4 | So Ram Dass dives into this. He mentions the Bhagavad Gita, |
| 1:46.8 | as well as many other wonderful, important things to chew on. And per usual, he brings his humanity. |
| 1:54.9 | He tells us that he's up to his eyeballs in desire as well, the wanting, the cultural pull, he's not exempt either. And so what does it |
| 2:04.5 | actually look like to be on the spiritual path and still be in all of this? Is it about having less? |
| 2:11.7 | Is it more about how we relate to what we have? Is money just energy? And if so, what does it mean to be a conduit |
| 2:19.7 | rather than a collector? But before we dive in, there's something special we want to talk about |
| 2:25.6 | that's happening over at the Be Here Now Network's guest podcast. So this is another series |
| 2:31.3 | that we've had going on for about 10 years, and it features guest |
| 2:34.9 | teachers and hosts who are friends of Ram Dass or have been inspired by his teachings. |
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