Our world is brimming with beings—human, animal, and artificial. We explore how they think, sense, feel, and learn. Conversations and more, every two weeks.
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I am sharing stories, tips, and lessons that I learn backpacking through America’s trails. Whether you are an experienced backpacker or have never walked on a dirt path, you are welcome here! As a military veteran, hiking has helped me rediscover peace within my soul. As a senior citizen (code for old guy), I know that we are never too old to start. The beauty of nature is waiting for you. So, come on. Let’s go walking!
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Sons of The Wandering Blade is a D&D 5e actual play podcast. Players Ty, Lex, Jacob, Michael, and Jack run their characters through The Lost Mines of Phandlever. The Characters are Dax, the woodland elf Monk, Mordis, the woodland elf rogue, Sir Helmet of Halmat, the Mtn. Dwarf, Karl the human fighter, and Saul T. Water, the gnome fighter.
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Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassi (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. He is author of The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth. His teachings draw from the sacred texts of India such as The Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Ramayana, and aim to reveal the practical application of the sacred traditions, while focusing on the shared essence which unites apparently disparate religious or spiritual paths. Born Rich ...
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We reckon we’re the first EVER podcast to cover the two most eccentric of English pastimes: watching frequently behatted men wander around a field for five days, and watching a frequently behatted man wander around a quarry for (what feels like) five days. We reckon the intersection zone of the Cricket / Doctor Who appreciation Venn Diagram is VAST, hence the podcast. Others are less so sure. “That sounds like the world’s most niche podcast," has been one early reaction. But that’s not what ...
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A podcast Chronicling the Planar Codex, an Table Top Role-playing Game currently in development by Edward A. Greene.
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who was the person who was really the guardian, the guardian of the true, unadulterated principles of Lord Chaitanya’s mission? Svarupa Damodara Goswami – Lalita gopi.By Radhanath Swami
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What is the nature of Lalita gopi’s love? That when she sees even a tiny drop of perspiration on the lotus feet of either Radha or Gopinath, it’s as if she assumes one million bodies to eagerly jump up and remove that spot of perspiration. That is her unconditional love.By Radhanath Swami
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How To Deal With People Who Are Demanding? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
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Hi friends, we're still on a brief summer break. We'll have a new episode for you later in August. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! ---- [originally aired September 21, 2022] If your podcast listening habits are anything like mine, you might be out for a walk right now. Maybe you’re wandering the neighborhood, just blocks from h…
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What is Meant by ‘Following Srila Prabhupada’s Footsteps?’
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Srila Prabhupada was very uncompromising what he spoke in his lectures and what he wrote in his books but how he applied those principles to individual personal cases was with such compassion whatever helped that person to become more attracted to Krishna, he would present it that way. That’s following in Prabhupada’s footsteps. Not just repeating …
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What Is The Difference Between Humility And Pridelessness?
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All practical purposes, to be humble means to be without pride, without being a sense of false proprietorship without the illusion that I am the doer.By Radhanath Swami
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From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?
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Hi friends, we're on a brief summer break at the moment. We'll have a new episode for you in August. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! ---- [originally aired January 25, 2023] By now you’ve probably heard about the new chatbot called ChatGPT. There’s no question it’s something of a marvel. It distills complex information into cle…
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This is your pastime my Lord. It was by your will that he got this disease in Jharikhanda forest, it was your will that for almost one year he remained here in this diseased condition and now it is by your will that you have cured him and embrace him by your causeless mercy.By Radhanath Swami
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Preaching is an instrument of the compassion of great souls and a proper spirit that helps us to develop our compassion. Real preaching means to extend yourself to make sacrifices of yourself for the wellbeing of another.By Radhanath Swami
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Why Lord Jagannath Doesn’t Eat Potatoes And Carrots in Puri?
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Why Lord Jagannath Doesn’t Eat Potatoes And Carrots in Puri? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
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Hi friends, we're on a brief summer break at the moment. We'll have a new episode for you in August. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! _____ [originally aired May 17, 2023] You know the feeling. You're trying to read or write or think through a project, maybe even just respond to an email, when your attention starts to drift. You…
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If you've taken Linguistics 101, you know what language is. It's a system for conveying meaning through speech. We build words out of sounds, and then complex ideas out of those words. Remarkably, the relationship between the sounds and the meanings they convey is purely arbitrary. Human language consists, in other words, of abstract symbols. Now, …
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Glories of Srimati Gangamata Gosvamini (Part 2)
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When they came inside, Mother Ganga was gone. All the Bengali people were gone. The only thing that remained was Saci sitting right at the feet of Lord Jagannatha! Ah! They were thinking ‘How is this? How did you get in the temple, the gates were locked?’ Their idea was, she broke into the temple to steal the property of Jagannatha. They arrested h…
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Glories of Srimati Gangamata Gosvamini (Part 1)
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Seeing the genuine sincerity of Saci-devi, Haridasa Pandita sent her to live at Radha-kunda with another one of his disciples, who happened to be Saci-devi’s aunt. Her name was Lakshmi Priya and there together, they perfectly lived in pure devotion and renunciation. They chanted minimum two hundred thousand names of Krishna every single day. They w…
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What Is The Principle of Life? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture
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It's an enduring puzzle. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors were nomadic, ranging over large territories, hunting and gathering for sustenance. Then, beginning roughly 12,000 years ago, we pivoted. Within a short timeframe—in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas—humans suddenly decided to settle down. We started to store o…
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Attraction and Attractiveness by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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How To Love and How to Be Loved in A Relationship?
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How To Love and How to Be Loved in A Relationship? by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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The Quest for Genuine Happiness by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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The Idea of Shelter by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Living in Harmony with Nature by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Universal Principle For Peace by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Process of Achieving Karuna by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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True Purpose of Religion by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Equality In the Eyes of God by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Transformation of Character by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Maybe your idea of spiders is a bit like mine was. You probably know that they have eight legs, that some are hairy. Perhaps you imagine them spending most of their time sitting in their webs—those classic-looking ones, of course—waiting for snacks to arrive. Maybe you consider them vaguely menacing, or even dangerous. Now this is not all completel…
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A cluster of brain cells in a dish, pulsing with electrical activity. A bee buzzing its way through a garden in bloom. A newborn baby staring up into his mother's eyes. What all these entities have in common is that we don't quite know what it’s like to be them—or, really, whether it's like anything at all. We don't really know, in other words, whe…
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HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj Glorifying HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
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HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj Glorifying HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj by Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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Welcome back friends! Today we've got a first for you: our very first audio essay by... not me. I would call it a guest essay, but it's by our longtime Assistant Producer, Urte Laukaityte. If you're a regular listener of the show, you've been indirectly hearing her work across dozens and dozens of episodes, but this is the first time you will be ac…
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A beautiful message by His Holiness Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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"With every rising and setting of the sun, our physical life is being reduced, and however much knowledge we have and however much wealth we have, however much influence and power we have, we cannot stop the forward march of time." - His Holiness Radhanath SwamiBy Radhanath Swami
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That is the purpose of yoga, that is the purpose of religion, that is the purpose of life to awaken our true potential. Each one of us is a divine being, each one of us in whatever capacity has an opportunity to do something wonderful in our life.By Radhanath Swami
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Spirit of Srila Prabhupada in HH Jayapataka Maharaj’s life
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This is Srila Prabhupada’s spirit, para dukha dukhi. A devotee’s happiness is seeing other people happy. And real happiness is seeing other people receiving Krishna, loving Krishna. Bhaktivinoda Thakur wrote one prayer where he explains, What is that song about Narada Muni? Where he is talking about how Narada Muni is making everybody chant and eve…
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They tend to move under the cover of darkness. As night descends, they come for your gardens and compost piles, for your trash cans and attic spaces. They are raccoons, skunks, and coyotes. And if you live in urban North America, they are a growing presence. Whether you consider them menacing, cute, fascinating, or all of the above, you have to gra…
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Man is making so many designations by dividing things up and human beings identify with that and so many quarrels over who is right and who is crazy based on the conditioning of our identity.By Radhanath Swami
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Because in transcendental sound vibration, Krishna may have spoken it five thousand years ago but in the text, in hearing qualified persons speak, that same energy, that same grace of God is manifesting according to our receptivity.By Radhanath Swami
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We can show our love for God by how we respect, how we serve, how we honor, and how we love each other.By Radhanath Swami
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From the archive: Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
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Hi friends, we're busy with some spring cleaning this week. We'll have a new episode for you in two weeks. In the meanwhile, enjoy this pick from our archives! _____ [originally aired Nov 30, 2022] When we talk about AI, we usually fixate on the future. What’s coming next? Where is the technology going? How will artificial intelligences reshape our…
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If You Focus on Good Qualities, Faults Will Disappear
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“Finding the fault within a spiritual person is like looking at pod marks in the moon.” The moon is generating volumes and volumes and volumes and volumes of light, so beautiful, ‘look at that mark in the moon.’By Radhanath Swami
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