Listen "Ode to India with Author & Religious Scholar Andrew Harvey & Raghu Markus – Mindrolling – Ep. 566"
Episode Synopsis
Offering a beautiful ode to India, Raghu and Andrew Harvey discuss divine truths and the oxymoron of beauty and pain.
This time on Mindrolling, Andrew and Raghu go over:
Andrew’s experience being born and growing up in India
India as a sacred world filled with divine beauty and pain
The divine feminine and masculine
Raghu’s experience bringing his father to India
The gift of Ram Dass and tying Hinduism to modern life
Revelations of incarnation
Andrew Harvey’s return to India and encountering great beings
Being mindful of our anger and transforming our emotions
About Andrew Harvey:
Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes. Andrew Harvey is also the founder and director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.
“Being born in India is for me the absolutely central and original and primordial and evolutionary event for me. That’s it. Because to be born in India is to be born into sacred world and a sacred culture that is alive with divine beauty, pain, passion, magic, veracity, truth. That’s India. – Andrew Harvey
This time on Mindrolling, Andrew and Raghu go over:
Andrew’s experience being born and growing up in India
India as a sacred world filled with divine beauty and pain
The divine feminine and masculine
Raghu’s experience bringing his father to India
The gift of Ram Dass and tying Hinduism to modern life
Revelations of incarnation
Andrew Harvey’s return to India and encountering great beings
Being mindful of our anger and transforming our emotions
About Andrew Harvey:
Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes. Andrew Harvey is also the founder and director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.
“Being born in India is for me the absolutely central and original and primordial and evolutionary event for me. That’s it. Because to be born in India is to be born into sacred world and a sacred culture that is alive with divine beauty, pain, passion, magic, veracity, truth. That’s India. – Andrew Harvey
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