Radhanath Swami and Dr. Cornel West - 1
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- Start from 17:30 to escape the introduction.
Princeton scholar Dr. Cornel West and Radhanath Swami, a spiritual teacher, activist and author, in a discussion titled "East Meets West: A Dialogue Between Cornel West and Radhanath Swami". Tuesday, April 19, 2011 in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
East meets west part 1
I will not degrade my soul to hate those that dislike this amazing speech
Lord Krishna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, patita-pavana, the most merciful appearance do the most total display of the Supreme Lord; embodying Srimati Radharani, whose prema,the highest level of the purest loving exchange, is the mood Sri Krishna appearing here. In one Kali Yuga, per day of Sri Brahma, that has numerous KaliYugas of a day & night of Sri Brahma.We are so inconceivably fortunate to be on Earth only 528 years into the Golden Age of Sri Caitanya Hari Nama Sankirtan. BalaNitai has toes that are blissfully cooling more than ten thousand moons that Sri Chandra takes charge of as devotional bhakti to please Krishna and all expanded Vishnu, Personality of Godhead, Godhead expansions. All this and much more to reawaken us to our each personal spiritual ,knowledge-based, eternally expanding blissful bodies of the Spiritual Sky. Hare Krishna
There is 18 min. of laborious introductions, but after that is a very important 30 min. to listen too. This is a very enlightening video. Om Mani Padhme Hum. Enjoy
thank you for uploading this video. 20 million people will watch a video about beyonce or jay z or one of the kardashians but less than 90,000 have watched this video. incredible! and people wonder what is wrong with this world.....
I love this...true wisdom is not simply storing data in ones brain...but to see everything and everyone as the same.
i never had faith in gurus...but watched iskon senior leaders...felt they explained life very simply and beautifully.Gradually learned how to be a good student, family member and how to be peaceful.Above all I learnt to maintain sense and sail slowly when tough times prevail.He practices what he teaches is very admirable!!!
"41 years ago i was in kandhar..." i fall in love in this moment when he started to tell the or HIS story. great!
great human beings!
All glories to HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj!!
Respond to this video... When Srila Prabhupada came to the west he had only 6 rupees in his pocket , he was very sick on that cargo ship in fact he had 4 heart attacks , a strict vegetarian he didnt know if there were any vegetables in the US, he just knew that there were Irish people there and Irish people eat potatoes, he lived with the homeless people. He founded ISCON ,
One of my favorite discussions of all time. It's an amazing example of two individuals with a deep seeded care and love for the human race and a genuine interest in their development and evolution. You can feel the love they have for one another and for everyone else. Far beyond other discussions I've seen where the individuals essentially sell themselves and their ideals as a product. Two beautiful and amazing individuals, and we should all be so lucky as to meet an individual like them.
Wonderful video on HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj.
It's a blessing to hear him
When you want to study medicine you associate with similar type of people. In a same way if you want to know God you don't go to someone who don't have spiritual experience. God is beyond our understanding and imagination because you have to understand that we have some defects:
i) Imperfect senses
ii) Cheating propensity
iii) Tendency to be in illusion
iv) Tendency to commit mistake
So, how can we judge the unlimited with our limited understanding.
It's called "Stop and Talk (Hey Natha)" by Guara Vani, on the album Ten Million Moons. That is the best part of the song, however.
Hare Krishna Prabhu. Thanks for your excellent service in uploading this nice video of Maharaja. I was wondering if it's possible that you can upload this same video but edit out the introduction because it's really long. I would really love to put this video in the favorites section of my youtube channel. If this is possible for I would be really grateful. Your aspiring servant.
Hari bol.
Forgiveness for those who trespass against us is an exercise in self-awareness and mindfulness. It is a personal belief of mine that self-awareness and mindfulness must be an active process in order to truly reap its bounties. I believe that is what you are trying to say in your second point.
Let this thoughts enlighten the whole world... Loka samatha sukhinoor Bhavantu!!
Thanks for sharing it!
"True wisdom is not storing data in one's brain... it is looking at all with equal vision.... to see that life is sacred. This is the principle of the Bhagavad Gita."
Hari Om! Wonderful. Vedanta and Hinduism explained in a nutshell.
Very powerful lesson
Very interesting discussion. Cornel west is really a legend.
If you want to escape the intro start from 17:30
This was great!
very inspiring...so sweet to listen...
That is the most important comment on video I have watched on youtube for a long time
HEHE! Very nice . very nice, Jai ho !
it is from Gauravai's Ten Millions Moon Album
Self awareness really means to understand who am I, what is relationship between me and Supreme Lord and what is the process to establish the relationship. Real mindfulness is proper understand the scriptures, words of God as it is.
wow, "I want see a change in the world" ;" we should be the change wat you wat to c in the world", these statements are so profound an enlivenin'
I dont think Christianity is anti-caste system. YOu have castes in christianity. just the term is non-existing.
I find it revolting that this video has less views than an interview with Kim Kardashian (just an example but you get my point).
Hare Krishna Maharaj ki jai hoo...!!!
Really it feels so nice and hearts fill us with great joy and we get lot of sensational feeling to see you at the House of commons.What a great pleasure to see you.Amazing feeling.Also, it is so wonderful to see you preaching about the message of GITA. Really inspiring.Hare Krishna.
ys-anshu jaiman
does anyone know the song played in the beginning?
very nice
Very inspiring. Swami is 61 years of age according to wikipedia. Wow.
Respond to this video... So nice to spend a little time with very gentle powerful men , one of Radhanath Swami's God brothers once said that the 2 biggest money spinners in this world are drugs and weapons therefore we have a situation where people narcotize themselves whilst dreaming up ever better ways to kill each other To see all living beings with equal vision is a very elevated realization. Jai Srila Prabhupada Jai Radhanath Swami Jai Dr Cornel West
Amazing discussion but this intro was entirely too long
He is trying to explain "What is real happiness?" What is everyone looking for? Even in that poor condition he was blissful singing the glories of Allah. On other side people having very wonderful and royal life they don't have that blissful happiness. May be he was trying to collect his living which everyone has to do. But we need to learn to connect it with God which the boy was doing in some certain level.
Wow
17:40
The caste system in India was the best system in world till 200-300 years ago, now it should be diminished as its purpose has finished as the situation has changed completely. Due to this caste system India was sharing 40% of GDP in world before 1500 AD, came down to 25% till 1800 & than it got completely demolished& India became poor. Don't see caste from society point of view, but see it from skilled point of view.People used to be skilled economicaly in specific field according to their cast
It should always be your choice and i believe the Hare Krishnas are very up to date among the hindus.
@dondongt Very nice question but expression of LOVE can only be experienced when there is freedom. I cannot make some force to love me. Love is not mechanical.
God is never partial in BG 9.29. Krsna explains it.
I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him.
Where is the other half? What did Dr West say?
Well Caste systems in India comes from Europe. Caste comes from portuguese word "Casta". Indians still follow stupid dark age european system into their constitution. So there exists caste system and it is not a religious problem. It is a Social problem. it encompasses all religions in India. It is sustained because it is politically helpful to crooks in holding power just like dark age.
nice
So, the Vedas say that everyone is divine, but in order for peaceful social functioning in this world, there should be division of society according to one's qualities. There are four divisions: Brahmanas (priests), Ksatriyas (warriors/administrators), Vaisyas (businessman/agriculturalists) and Sudras (labourers). Every part is needed for the proper functioning of the social body, just like one needs one's head, chest, stomach & legs to work together to function properly.
@christiew8 there is division of society on the basis of the quality or nature. Reference of bhagavat gita 18.41 and 4.13. He says that on the inquiry of self realization, people undergo different step by step stages of awareness, and with it comes purity in their character. Division is not in basis of outlook, physical appearance. It on basis of nature and character.
Around 30 min i see some CC that arnt right .
BEAUTIFUL HUMANS...HARE KRISHNA !
ug 17:30 of introductions
In response to both of your comments. Your first point is well taken. I could never fault a poor boy trying to earn a living, and the fact that it is connected with God on some level is righteous and just. However, I can only hope that he was not victimized in some way in order to earn his living as a pauper. Unfortunately, these schemes do exist everywhere and are certainly not uncommon in the Indian subcontinent.
Based on a little reading, it seems ISKCON's stance on caste is that isn't something you're born into, it's just what you are. If you farm, you are farmer, but the son of farmer isn't a farmer if he doesn't farm. So the "real" caste system of the Vedas is just pointing out the obvious: there are divisions in society based on profession, and each profession contributes to society. Unfortunately the reality in India is that you're born in a caste and you're stuck doing what your ancestors did.
i keep sing the intro song.
DOOGAGA DUG DUC TAH! DOOGO TA
Yes one runs out of explanation for all the terms you mention if you keep looking for them yourself. Surrender to a Guru in Parampara system and he will lead make you experience all that is required for your spiritual growth from time to time.
I dont think there is problem with the terms one can use it if its universally understandable.
I couldn't relate your reply any further that of mine
Divinity herein is the spirit soul each living entity carry with its physical body which is part and parcel of God without which the body is just lump of physical elements. What is difference between death and living? all the organs are still there, we can see the same person lying on the ground why one is death and one is living. ie the spiritual spark(soul) which makes the difference.
Initially, the unmotivated love doesn't come automatically but by continuous and constant engagement in service of Lord will one lead to that stage of pure love for Lord. About the boy physical condition, there is definitely due the reaction of previous conditioning (karma). But that is not the question, the more imp aspect what we are doing. Having richness and good physical health is not the real thing, real thing is to relate oneself with the supreme Lord. Understand the divinity in oneself.
whoa... get to it... longest possible intros
yes.more or less it is saying that no matter who you are, what your role in society is no matter how "low" on the socioeconomic ladder you are, you are important, and should carry out your role with dignity and pride. think about it this way,if you know you cannot climb that ladder, and no one else can replace you if you are already high in the caste ladder, you wont envy those above you and you wont have incentive to be greedy.. of course in reality human greed and pettiness gets in the way
I am sorry but don't stoop down bagavadh gita to level of set of moral codes. It talks about transcendence from both GOOD AND BAD. Both good and bad are karma, unless the act is conscious and is done in unawareness it doesn't matter good or bad it is an ignorant action and hence is karma and is binding and hence stuck to cycle of birth and death.
@shawnmgooden Hindus like their long intros , there's no hurry for them Although Indians work very long hours you soon notice that people move at a slower pace than we do in western city's i find it very therapeutic personally
yea ridiculous that the intro was so long.. almost 20 minutes....no ego involved there right?? haha
You will run out of explanations and consciousness if you use the terms "soul", "god" "worship" "sacrifice". these are terms owned quoted and provided in the world by and from "Judaeo-Christian" "Greeko-Roman" Hellenistic philosophy, you cant use them to describe your experience and translate some universal concept to fit them for all. Better differentiate it from Atman, Parmatman, Dhrama, you will see extreme differences and there would be no problem at all to comprehend.
As Radhanath Swami was discussing his life changing experience seeing the poor boy in Afghanistan, there are questions unanswered. Why did the boy stumble upon the travelers in the tea shop? Why was he blind? Why was he playing an instrument and singing about God? Was he divinely placed there, or was he a street performer hoping to obtain money? "The Supreme Dharma awakens loving, devotional service...such service must be unmotivated by any selfishness, egoism..." Blind faith is no faith.
Some women are Sudras, most are like most people regardless of thier sex. Some women rose to high importance in Hindu society. If women are considered so unintelligent why are there female Purohitas? A concept alien to Christianity for example until very recent times.
introduction too long
+Dat Phan Patience pays
The holy scriptures Vedas of hindusim have female proponents (philosophers) like gargi and Lopamudra and people pray to them. i dont understand where you get this idea of female being less may be fromm greeko-roman though of Plato and Aristotle who considered women dont have soul. LoL
As there is division of status in a company for rung in the company or say a country
1 you need Intellectuals / bureaucrats/ ministers
2 you need a army and people who can defend and administrate
3 the merchants or the business many
4 the lab our class / other people to work for
It fits in working of Society - is considering and respecting everyone at the platform on spiritual existence - Soul and not concept of life .and when you see them suffering with birth / disease /old age and death
yes, but the discussion on the caste system has not been answered, not even sketchily, it has been avoided. It is not up to me to cast someone into a caste role and I feel desperately unhappy when so many others constantly do so. This is not god or intelligence, it is evil and evil only and it is an ancient evil.
you should learn to have discourse in your terms, in indian terms.Caste i not indian or hindu thing. you should not translate "Varna Vyavastha" to caste and start portraying. there are 2 different things and caste system is evil which has to go back where it came from (portugal, europe) If india was good because of varna-vyavastha then better put up scholarly arguements from authentic sources instead of mere Western descriptions of Indias past. Your past is much more than what west has written.
@kanishta108
Nah, you're lying.
Dont you take service from less intelligent class of men in your day to day life ..so what we need everybody in the society more or less educated both be practical. There isnt hatred its just the present state of consciousness and everybody should try and come out of it
Women less intelligent - you should go through example and be practical while going through them
Rotten Philosophy - Its not a neo modern one it has been coming down through ages tried and tested by many great soul.
The problem here is really that the caste system DOESN'T fit into hinduism, no mor than the laws of Leviticus fit into Christianrty. You have to know something of British/Indian history to understand. The Caste system was forced into existence on the indian people because they wanted to rule by indian rule. Of course, the caste system was meant to be metaphorical... the British took it as literal.
Im not trying to be facetious in any way, but can someone explain to me how the caste system fits into seeing everyone as divine and feeling their pain?
namsthe christiew8, (i bow to the divine in you), you may not be knowing hinduism thats y this question arised, for your knowledge there is not even a single thing told about castism in hindu scripture, if you prove there is one iam ready to leave sanadana dharma. open chalenge. learned people created all these chaoses for treating them as supperiors
I think when people realize there is no source...no God...they begin to reach Dharma...Stephen Batchelor in his Book The Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist...touches on this again and again...we are just highly evolved animals cursed with a higher conscious...but there is not divinity involved...sorry
janmana jayatha marthya
karmana jayatha dutha
brama janana aava bramanatha bavishuthi , which means one will become human by birth, one will become worker by his work , one will become brahmana or the so called supreme cast by studing vedas the ultimate truth... there is no castism okkkk, i can give u many more refrences and the actual interpretations
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Nobody likes serious introduction.
@dondongt i fail to see a god which create human for then sole purpose for worshiping, yet gives human the freedom of choice. why not create mindless drone as in mindless human or creature that worship the god of the time. thusly, the god which needs human approval for validating his the divinely. what is the need the of worship? why only worshiping grants purity, and thus consequently determining the nature of character. how is it worship makes another human a less of human.
thankyou good god, what is up with that guy.
@meropal ""christiew8''' please stop shooting well crafted words around and answer the question. there is not purity in discriminating other human or person. if god made you, and then he also made all other human. gita's awareness is so divine that it lets you justify violate other humans basic rights. you are closing your eyes to the "Truth", and nothing is worse then people like you. how can gita as a god be so misguided and say that one person is better because the way he or she worship him.
yeah right and then you have women that are on the same level as sudras (less intelligent, non-educated workers) as well. that is called sexism. this philosophy looks like a nice package from the outside (singing, eating, dancing and celebrating Krishna etc) but is very very rotten from the inside. source : my own experience and HK study (in their own institution).
The caste system in India was not the best system in the world... beliefs in India were largely a backwater of superstition, the untouchables were the scourge of the earth, still to this day if the shadow of an untouchable comes accross a Brahmin the Brahmin has to do rituals to purify himself of the uncleanliness. The caste system was, and is, a means of societal control, and thats all it is.Thats why anti-caste religions, such as Sikhism, and Christianity, became very popular in India.