Harmonizing faith and reason in bhakti - The Monk's Podcast 68 with Radhika Raman Prabhu
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- Radhika Ramana Prabhu is a notable Vaishnava scholar. He holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Vedānta of Jīva Gosvāmī (Routledge, 2007), co-editor of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2013), editor of Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Philosophy: Tradition Reason and Devotion (Ashgate Publishing, 2014), and co-author of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Selected Readings (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Radhika Ramana Prabhu completed his doctorate in Hindu Studies at Oxford University and subsequently taught at the University of Florida, Centre College, and the College of William and Mary. He has received four teaching awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship, two research fellowships at Oxford, and a book award. He is a Permanent Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and past president the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. He is also a member of the faculty at Bhaktivedanta College. Radhika Ramana Prabhu lectures widely on topics related to Vaishnava bhakti traditions, Vedanta philosophy, interreligious dialogue, and the relationship between scholarship and practice
Summary 2:39:39
Chaitanya Charan Das is a monk, spiritual mentor and author.
Building on his engineering degree from the Government College of Engineering, Pune, he has studied extensively the philosophical and sociological ramifications of modern science. Complementing his scientific education is his keen spiritual sensitivity honed by systematic and sympathetic study of the bhakti tradition for over two decades. He has been an invited speaker at several international conferences on the interface of science and spirituality, including the World Peace Conference 2006 and World Peace Congress 2008 organized by UNESCO. Based in India, he has given talks at colleges and companies all over the world from Australia to America. His writings appear regularly in several Indian newspapers including the reputed Speaking Tree column in The Times of India. Apart from 300 analytical articles (available at www.thespiritualscientist.com) and 1600 inspirational daily meditations on the Bhagavad-gita (available at www.gitadaily.com), he is the author of 20 books on a wide variety of subjects ranging from Science and spirituality, socio-cultural analysis of religion, and the ancient texts of India, especially the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavad-gita
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Wow, we need a part two, part three, part four . . . what a fantastic look into the scholarly world of exploring the faith. I myself have had all these doubts at various times and wish I heard this conversation earlier.
It was nourishing to listen to the two humble intellectual devotees. It is amazing that CC Prabhu is such a good listener in spite of a vast amount of knowledge. It is always a pleasure to listen to his summary. Thank you very much. Haribol.
On permutation and combination of words can expression my feelings and gratitude. Learned a lot and many misconceptions and doubts are removed.
PLEASE HAVE RADHIKA RAMAN PRABHU AGAIN ON PODCAST.
these discussions are super awesome - came across the one on compassion and the holocaust and got to know about all these nectar discussions - in my heart gratitude is growing to you and all your awesome interlocutors
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Foundation of all either of Faith or Reason is Humility. Thats a big takeaway of this mesmerizing conversation between these two elevated souls. Thankyou for this excellent podcast. The level of these podcasts is elevating day by day. Hare Krsna
Thank you for this dialogue . I found it to be very enriching
It is a wonderful discussion - training to both the heart and the head. Ultimately every devotee intellectual or non-intellectual is a servant.
Faith has different components - rational, cultural, emotional,social ..
One's faith should have a healthy balance of all these components not lopsided.
For our Vaisnava philosophy, historicity i.e events with exact place and time, is not central.
Desvotees pursuing academic religious studies should safeguard their faith through sincere sadhana and like-minded association.
Faith can be based on rationality. But ultimately faith is solely based on spiritual experience. Rationality can always be used as a tool.
Thanks for the succinct summary.
Awesome , most important issues for every community member! Thank You RR Prabhu!
Hare Krishna chaitanya charan Prabhu, I think the podcast with PRABHUJI was getting better & better. I was hoping it would have continued forward. If possible please invite PRABHUJI again.
Big takeaways: Different pov are not separated but sandwiched, each one can get benefit from others. Perfect eg. 1. Cake serving on birthday. 2. Srila Prabhupada spreading kc in west. Both transcendental & socioeconomic perspective at the end of the day increases appreciation towards Krsna & his devotees.
Thank you so much Prabhu once again.
said that about Prabhuppada, your both message are wonderful . Dandavats _/\_
nectar and necessary indeed
Thoughtful discussion. Thanks so much prabhu.
Great thanks I can open now!!!!
Facts are always important, if it’s lost or missing we should find it. But can’t say we don’t need fact because we never required it in our religion.
So many things we can corroborate with circumstances , flow and sequences of event. We need to work on it.
It’s hard work should not run away from it.
Thank you for these podcasts
Prabhu thank you for this. Hare Krsna 🙏🏾♥️
Around about 1:00:00
Isnt your faith just based on previous faith of previous persons? Where is the foundation?
Components of faith:
Intellectual
Cultural
Social
Emotional/Experiental
*nourish your weakest sides*
Also, it is composed of beliefs AND practices, and experiential.
Religious understanding:
Comprehensive
Consistent
Timeless
Vs
Historical
Social
Philosophical
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We need a place where we can raise our doubts without being judged as faithless for asking the questions.
1:46:24
The analytical study gives us some distance from the practice so we can see some of the elements we may be blind to, i e. Sociological, political, etc
The up close perspective is the difference between asking about how to make a cake, learning the details, versus actually making the cake and tasting it yourself.
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Bhakti is never covered by reason, but it never becomes unreasonable.
Amazing video.
Prabhuji, are you considering inviting anyone if the following devotees:
1) HG Jaya Jagannath prabhu as well from New York (preciously he was in Chicago)? Would love to hear the conversation between both of you.
2) HH Bhakti Vikas Swami maharaj. Would love to hear your conversation with him.
3) HG Radhe Syam prabhuji
4) HG Gaur sundar prabhu who has been serving in Vrindavan.
Thanks for your suggestions; will keep them in mind. The purpose of the podcast is primarily to discuss issues, and secondarily to get to know devotees or to spread awareness about projects. To have meaningful discussions on issues with anyone, I have found that I need to know them well and have some "intellectual chemistry" with them.
Chaitanya Charan
Ok. Thank you for your reply. I totally understand your point of having intellectual chemistry with them... When I mentioned these names, I could think of some of the unique topics which could be discussed by you but certainly if you don’t feel like the intellectual chemistry exists then it may be difficult. Thank you prabhu for the kind of service you have been doing. We are so grateful to you.
@@atulkapoor3476 I didn't say I don't have intellectual chemisty with any of them; I was just listing the broad factors I consider while inviting anyone.
Chaitanya Charan
I understood prabhu. Had some typos in my comment earlier which I fixed. Keep up the great work. Wish to be able to learn from your example and please the lord. Thank you 🙏
Speaking of "history"... Actually this term is not an accurate translation of the term "iti hasa". The very term iti hasa, that happened, suggests that the focus is on WHAT happened, not so much WHERE and WHEN. Western idea/concept of history is very much different. Radhika Ramana Prabhu explained it nicely. Inspiring discussion.
That was a beautiful question CC pr - sand castle upon sand castle...
‘Between faith and reason, we should also be a dialogue partner on deciding the terms of the debate’ - how is that not different from saying that a student should be a dialogue partner on the setting of the examination paper? Why is the student asking for a compromised exam? A student’s understanding is indeed accurate, shouldn’t he be able to defend it regardless of what the content of the exam paper is?
Summary @2:39:40
Sorry, with all respect, but Prabhupada used to say tha Kurukshetra battle happened 5000 b. C. and that scripitures were almost to be taken literally (almost like fundamentalist religious people do) and these things kept a lot of people distant from the movement. Sometimes he siad it was not so important, but the majority of times he did it. And his western disciples, at least, kept repeating it.I suposed Prabhupada made it after the failure of one sanyasi sent to UK that went back to India with western clothes (one of the reasons at least)
Hare Krishna. So what all facts make your faith?
1) The vision of the sages or prophets or messengers.
2) The facts mentioned in the scriptures and manuscripts.
Only these 2 were mentioned by HG Radhika Raman prabhu.
What other facts???