Welcome to Ramdas, here and now.

I'm Ragu Marcos with another episode.

Today actually we're going to switch gears a little bit.

I just thought it would be fun to introduce a little bit different aspect.

Mostly we use archival talks that Ramdas has given over the years.

I just was looking at some of the media library stuff from Ramdas.org, which is very rich.

I saw a talk where Ramdas holds these talks in his house that we call Pugiuside chats,

because they're done right in front of this very large Pugetable, altar table, that he's

got in his living room and it looks out.

You can look out to the ocean out of his big bay windows.

This is very, very beautiful.

He's had different people that he sits with and just has a chat with.

And today I picked a chat that he did with Lama Suria Das, who was with us back in the

day with Ninkaroli Baba with Maharaji.

And then in the 70s, went off with some incredible high llamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition

and did a lot like Karmapa and Kalo Rinpoche.

And he himself did some very intense practices in actually in France for a number of years

meditating solo in a cave, not seeing anybody.

And I think he just would have little conferences with his teacher and so on.

And so he has a really special perspective on two different paths, the path of Bhakti

and the Tibetan Buddhist path.

So he has fascinating conversations with Ramdas whenever they get together.

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