Ep. 630 – Love is Forever with Hanuman Dass, Founder Of Go Dharmic
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
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4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Reflecting on Ram Dass’s core teachings, Hanuman Dass and Raghu Markus discuss the immense power of love, service, and compassion.
Check out There is No Other for more of Ram Dass’s teachings on the path to harmony. Also, stay tuned for the release of Hanuman Dass’s forthcoming book Be Yourself, formed out of his conversations with Ram Dass.
This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and Hanuman Dass have a conversation on:
- Hanuman Dass’s experience growing up in a deeply connected, matriarchal family
- Living spirituality in everyday life, household puja, and devotional practices
- How karma dictates our lives and puts us right where we are supposed to be
- Hanuman Dass’s relationship with Ram Dass and becoming inspired to serve through food donation
- The Upanishads, self-inquiry, and Ram Dass’s perpetual devotion to Maharaj-ji
- Compassion as the direct road to enlightenment
- Empowering those we help rather than impoverishing them or pitying them
- Reflecting on the dharma of humanity and our shared responsibility to one another
You can now watch Bridge of Grace to learn more about KK Sah, a Maharaj-ji devotee and close friend of Ram Dass. Click here to learn more.
About Hanuman Dass:
Hanuman Dass is the founder of the UK-based charity Go Dharmic (GD). GD’s core mission is global hunger relief, supported by their humanitarian crisis response work and campaigns for environmental action, poverty alleviation, education, and plant-based and organic diets. Hanuman Dass was inspired into service through his relationship with Ram Dass, whom he met in his 20’s. GD's founding ethos is based on the philosophy of Sanatana Dharma. Their mission is to “Love All. Feed All. Serve All.” Check out the GD website for more information and stay in touch with Hanuman Dass on social media. Pick up a copy of this guide to the Hanuman Chalisa created with Hanuman Dass
“I feel lightest here, I feel happiest in service and love…drink is nice, you go up and down. Drugs might be nice, you go up and down. But, love is forever, you can stay in that space.” –Hanuman Dass
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, is Ragu. I'm back with Mind Rolling, and I have to say, you can't say old friend, new old friend. It's like we've known each other in the past. Hanuman Das, |
| 0:24.9 | so happy to have you here. I love you so much and thank you for having me. A new, old, |
| 0:32.5 | and present friend. Guru Bai. Yes, yes. |
| 0:37.8 | So Hanuman Das is going to tell his story a little bit, but to let everybody know, service |
| 0:45.6 | is what he is involved with and has been with a wonderful organization called Go-Darmic, |
| 0:52.8 | feeding people around the world. |
| 0:55.1 | And so I thought, okay, well, perfect opportunity, not just to find out who Hanuman Das is, |
| 1:02.5 | but to speak to it from, particularly, of course, from Ram Dass's perspective, |
| 1:09.1 | since that's how Godarmic started with Ram Dass's blessing. |
| 1:15.1 | But how about just a little bit about, you know, how did you come into even realizing, I mean, |
| 1:24.3 | so being Indian, it's, you know, right in, in the culture in terms of, of |
| 1:31.5 | spirituality and Dharma and so on and so forth. But, but many people in India, especially |
| 1:38.8 | next generation, they like, you know, they want the luxury thing of the West and, you know, the ambition to accumulate. |
| 1:52.2 | That seems to be changing, but we'll talk about that later. |
| 1:55.8 | But what happened to you? |
| 1:57.0 | How did you grow up? |
| 1:58.0 | Where did you grow up? |
| 2:00.0 | So I was born and brought up in a town called |
| 2:05.1 | Luton, a small suburban town. It's often considered the dump of the UK. So it's like a pretty |
| 2:13.0 | poor place across the country. There's a lot of immigrants that come in, are thrown in there |
| 2:19.5 | when they first land in the UK. And it's kind of a bit of a rough place, got a bad reputation. |
| 2:27.0 | It's north of London. But going back before that, although I'm born in the UK, on my maternal side, my maternal grandfather lived in |
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