Swami Medhananda: Becoming a Monk and Brutal Self-Assessment The Philosophy of Now

How do we imbibe the qualities of a monk? What is mean to detach from worldly pleasures? Why does a spiritual life seem so distant to us sometimes?

Well, before becoming a monk, our guest today was a young agnostic in U.C. Berkeley trying to figure out his purpose in life like the rest of us.

Today, Swami Medhananda is a sanyassi or monk under the Ramakrishna Order, founded by the prolific sage, Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Medhananda is also currently Senior Research Fellow and a monk at the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He is also the Hindu Chaplain at UCLA. He's a scholar who has written insightful books and articles about the philosophies of Swami Vivekenanda and Sri Ramakrishna.

While in this conversation Swamiji gives us novices a deep dive into Hinduism 101, he also explains his own journey as a youth figuring out his spiritual purpose. He advises the youth on how to find their own life of meaning and contemplation.

Let's listen, learn and reflect together with Swami Medhananda's life mantra!