R. Sriram - "Rationality, Religiousness, and the Divine"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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R. Sriram, coauthor of Natya Yoga: Peace Passion Pain Mapping Emotions, reunites with J to talk about the deeper questions of purpose and meaning in yoga. They discuss his understanding of T Krishnamacharya's and TKV Desikachar's view on God, the effects of connecting to source, humility and faith, Vedic chanting with J Krishnamurti, academic bonafides and diverging from Vyasa's commentary on Patañjali’s Yogasūtras, limitations of science and potential of human spirit, and respecting the personal artistic nature of the divine.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we are.
0:13.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.2	My name is Jay Brown.
0:17.9	If this happens to be the first time you're listening, welcome to you, everyone else,
0:25.3	what's up? How are you holding up? Because the onslaught most certainly continues. The only question is,
0:36.6	how are we managing? Me, I'm doing okay. I'm a little
0:42.3	bit spent. And I'm up against the wire. I'm recording this on Mother's Day, Anne. I had all
0:51.2	kinds of fatherly husband duties to take care of brunches to make and fires to put out,
1:01.6	metaphorically speaking. And normally I have the intros and outros done much earlier in the day than now, but sometimes I got too many hats to try to wear at the same time.
1:17.9	And, you know, it's a bit of a juggle.
1:20.6	Have you seen like a juggler who's throwing a hat on his head and then juggling with the other hands?
1:25.3	I feel like that sometimes.
1:28.3	But we're going to do it.
1:29.7	This is so going to happen in time.
1:32.5	We're going to get it in under the wire.
1:35.1	We usually do.
1:38.1	But I'm a little bit spent.
1:40.0	My brain's a little bit fried.
1:43.7	All in all, though, I don't want to complain as much as it is a continued challenge to live in this world and try to figure out how to make your way.
2:01.4	It's still quite a wonder.
2:03.7	You know what we did today?
2:04.7	We went to this waterfall.
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