Saturday, June 14, 2025

I host a Zoom podcast on the Nectar of Devotion every Tuesday @ 7 pm and Sundays at 6 pm. Every other evening at 6 pm, on I host a discussion based on Thom Hartmann's "Daily Take" article which he posts on weekdays along with his wife's "Daily Song" inspired by that piece which she writes and produces. I feature that topic the same day on Monday, and a day or two later the other 4 days a week while that current event is still in the news cycle.

We are currently going through a dangerously fraught period in America right now where migrants and being deported en masse and US citizens are waking up to find themselves in the midst of a highly destructive authoritarian coup. It's not enough to just quote scripture without connecting transcendental knowledge to current events and subsequently using that realization which will lead to activism/practical service to God and man. It’s essential that we talk to each other and build coalitions of support & resistance with a view of how to establish within this material world the mission to fulfill the desire of the hero of Gaudiya Vaisnavas, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the pioneer of civil disobedience for the right cause in Whose footsteps I am humbly trying to follow. Lord Caitanya is the yuga-avatar (one who descends to the material world during this degraded age of Kali - quarrel & hypocrisy to reestablish the principles of dharma), whose yoga practice of Saṅkīrtana (congregational mantra meditation) and teachings are predicted to be in extent in this world for the next 10,000 years. Here's a video of his act of civil disobedience that facilitated the spread of His movement across the subcontinent of India 500 years ago.

 

This ongoing series is called “śāstra-cakṣusā" (seeing through the eyes of ancient Vedic wisdom literature). All videos of the zoom broadcast are then uploaded to my YouTube channel then posted to this Facebook group. If someone joins me, we take turns reading, but if not, I post my illustrative slideshow video of my reading of the "Daily Take" article every day along with the "Daily Song." Join this group to get notifications of upcoming Zoom broadcast topics, posted videos, and current local devotional & activism events.


This tradition is carried to this day by his followers in the west, led by the greatest 20th century saint, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who urged his followers apply the civil disobedience tactics of Mahāprabhu whenever appropriate, and made this comment about an infamous POTUS, a topic relevant when he was on this planet a half-century ago:


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