2024 Swami Padmanabha Swami Padmanabha

0:00 Swami Padmanabha accepts the invitation and extends the invitation to partake in this opportunity of Istagosthi, which is not about coming together to figure things out but that coming together trying to incline each other to the depth and greatness of the ultimate truth and trusting that getting together in that spirit will reveal something not possible to be obtained by ourselves.


11:26 What is the role of hospitality in the revitalization of our spiritual life?


29:04 How can we uphold high principles and practices of bhakti while embracing and embodying our humanity and the reality of our situation.


54:53 When you say that everything is Krishna, do you mean that every living being, every object, every reality is Krishna?


01:04:17 What is self-love? If I find happiness in something and I engage in that, is that what is meant by self-love?


01:13:36 How do we know when we are in our comfort zone or we are just trying to stay balanced?


1:25:51 What can we do when we are overwhelmed by challenges that seem unbearable?


01:39:24 My life feels so mundane and separated from spiritual activities. I have to wonder, “Am I doing enough?”


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0:00 Swami Padmanabha shares our common hopes for today’s gathering and further reflections on the recent self-love in bhakti series of classes given in Alachua, FL.


04:49 Are we meant to search for a guru or will a guru find us? And how do we know when we have met our guru?


33:51 A not-yet-known listener joins in and becomes known


37:16 How can we harmonize the perspective that bhakti is very difficult, with only 1 out of thousands coming to know Krishna in truth, with the perspective that Krishna’s unconditional love is already coming to us.


01:01:45 How does “feeling good” about our service play out in a healthy way? What is our motivation for service if we don’t yet feel compelled internally and don’t want to force ourselves artificially?


1:19:31 I’ve been told that chanting or praying silently is impersonal. Is that true?


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0:00 Swami Padmanabha shares how “Istagosthi” means coming together around our all-attractive common center, and what that looks like in practice.


15:11 Can you clarify what you meant when you said that there should be some philosophy during long kirtans, 8 hours or 24 hours. Isn’t chanting in kirtan enough?


41:55 How can we balance being and becoming, because there is a tendency to want to be something else instead of embracing who we are?


59:13 How can we balance our conscious attempts to be more God conscious with the feeling that every day I fail in doing that?


01:29:24 Is there room for contentment in bhakti?


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You are invited to join Swami Padmanabha and Tamal Krishna das as they affectionately share Sri Radha-Gadai katha. Listen in as they sprinkle insights that have flowed into their hearts.


Katha is followed by a sweet kirtan.


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In this last session of a 3-part series on self-love in bhakti, learning how to relate to ourselves, Swami Padmanabha contextualizes self-love in God’s unconditional love.



To accept deeply that Krishna already loves us—that his love does not and cannot be earned by some meritorious deed—is a healthy motivating factor in our bhakti practice. We need not be driven by fear, or guilt, or the pressure to perform to try to make god like us, but rather we can move out of a desire to reciprocate with what is already coming. And in the context of that reciprocation, we also love what is in connection to him. And that everything, including us—that is self-love in bhakti. If we really want to love Krishna, we will learn to love ourselves.



But who are we? Do we have an identity beyond our human doings and our human havings?



In this session, we are invited to explore the certainty of god’s love that resolves all uncertainties in its context, aligns brokenness under blessings, and retires fears by its strength. Learning to see ourselves as god sees us, we are invited to inhabit his reality and be who we already are —“I am someone who is loved by Krishna. I am god’s beloved.” And THAT is AMAZING.



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“Of all types of knowledge, I am knowledge of the soul. I am fully present in those moments when you grasp completely who you are, with all of that’s implications,” Krishna explains in the Gita. Self-love is one of those implications of knowing what the soul is.



In this 2nd of a 3-part series on self-love in bhakti, Swami Padmanabha grounds our sense of self in the foundational knowledge of the self, the truth of the soul, atma-tattva, which Krishna can say is no less than “Amazing…amazing…amazing.” And he loves that amazingness.



This series digs deep to the foundational truths upon which our bhakti temple is built. If our foundation is skewed, whatever is built upon it will be increasingly off balance, and eventually, the structure will collapse. This is true with our conceptions, as well as buildings. If our foundation of bhakti contains a dysfunctional relationship with our own being, a misunderstanding of who we are, of how Krishna sees us, then every other step in our journey after that—how we relate to others, to the world, to Krishna—will also contain elements of that dysfunction.



Tune-in as we hear who we are in God’s eyes; how considering ourselves disconnected and separated is the source of all illusion; and how self-love is part of relating wholesomely to everything that is connected to the center of nondual reality—to the heart of god—so that means everything.



And still…. the inner voices of self-loathing come: I’m despicable, not enough, unlovable, stupid, ugly, unworthy, cursed…And it is this self-loathing, self-denial, self-rejection is the very opposite of reality, of God’s reality. For him, we are shockingly amazing.



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