The Free Radical Podcast

Join Swami Padmanabha for Episode 22 of The Free Radical Podcast as he welcomes his dear friend, teacher, and scholar from the Nimbarka Sampradaya, Naval Kishor Shastri. Together, they embark on an enlightening journey, exploring the intricate dimensions of surrender. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IddCeihsJc ▶ CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION: Gaudiya Reform Forum on Facebook . ~ Swa...

Experience a dynamic dialogue between Swami Padamanabha and Richard Rohr, a renowned author, mentor, Franciscan Friar, and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Together, they embody the essence of TADATMYA—empathic interrelatedness—by sharing insights from their respective traditions with mutual respect and genuine affection, offering a rich tapestry of wisdom, language, and nuance...

Join Swami Padamanabha and Sudharma dasi as they explore radical personalism and its nemesis, impersonalism, which often hides its face behind a mask of personalism. Sudharma's service to the Gaudiya community has been exemplary and extensive over the decades, especially as an advocate for women's rights Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3UsLM49vjc ▶ CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION: Gau...

Embark on a journey of connection with Swami Padmanabha and Kula-pradipa dasa, an insightful chaplain from Stanford University, as they delve into the transformative power of presence. In this illuminating podcast, explore the profound impact of presence on both our internal landscapes and external interactions. Discover how the art of being present not only enriches our own lives with deeper mean...

In this captivating conversation, viewers are invited into an enlightening dialogue with Swami Padmanabha and Dhira Govinda dasa (David B. Wolf), a distinguished Vaishnava scholar, author, transformative coach and founder of Satvatove Institute of Transformational Coaching. Bringing profound insights into the realm of radical personalism and emphasizing the imperative for a comprehensive approach...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Kalakanthi dasi, a very special Gaudiya scholar and student of Svami Sadananda Dasa, engage in a spontaneous, honest and intimate conversation about the personal nature of devotion, loyalty to bhakti as she comes to us, personal strengths and potential pitfalls. Refreshingly honest and deep conversation ▶ CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION:...

Relational. Confrontational. Addressing closet issues in the open. Empathetic. Realistic. Inspirational. As we are about to the round the corner into the 2nd season of THE FREE RADICAL PODCAST, peak in on some the conversations Swami Padmanabha and guests shared during Season 1. FULL VERSIONS can be found The Free Radical Podcast : Watch on YouTube ▶ WATCH ON FACEBOOK ▶ WATCH ON YOUTUBE ▶ PURCHASE...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Namarasa as they discuss what lies at the heart of community, togetherness that can be formed through Radical Fraternity, and the various shapes that may take at different times. Concerns such as conformity and fitting in, the roles of community leaders, mediocracy, deep friendships, keeping intimacy in large communities are also discussed. @namarasapodcast Watch, and joi...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Krishna Chandra, an author and initiator of Anada dham—a contemplative ashram in Switzerland where silence has become a crucial course of their daily practice—in the lively and liberating discussion of the relation of freedom and love in the life of bhakti: what is the harmonizing element that feeds and supports both the deepest surrender and the limitless embrace of free...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Bhima-Karma as they bring to the table topics of abuse shrouded by narratives of denial and various forms of evasiveness, healing from trauma and the positive choice of redemption, and the importance of embodied direct experience. Before a problem can be solved, it must be acknowledged and explored deeply through the sharing of experience, each from their own place. Only...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Brian McClaren as they explore insights from their own traditions and experiences as to how to keep religious traditions alive and the joyful relief that arises from honestly acknowledging how we no longer represent the heart of the tradition and responsibly address, individually and communally, how to correct the course. https://brianmclaren.net/ ▶ WATCH ON FACEBOOK ▶ WA...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Father Adam Bucko, a contemplative author, Episcopal priest, founder of the Reciprocity Foundation and The Center for Spiritual Imagination , and committed voice in the movement for renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement, come together to share their experiences of Radical Activism. Quote From Radical Personalism that opens t...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Patrick Beldio, a Sufi practitioner, scholar, sculptor, and sweet human being, as they dynamically explore the connection between mystery, the mystic, and art in living relationship with each other. Quote From Radical Personalism that opens the discussion: “ In general, present-day Gaudiya Vaishnavism seems to be stuck in what we may call an overdose of confidence, or a p...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Rory McEntee—founder, President, and Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality, and co-author of  The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living —as they discuss a new way of conceiving an ancient way of being. Expanding Raimon Panikkar’s notion of “The Monk” as an archetype, this conversation invite...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Ilia Delio, a Franciscan nun, author, theologian, scientist and much more, as they explore the importance of language and how it shapes our experience of reality. Carrying the unique yet mutual threads of their traditions, the conversation flowed through reflections on: •Evolution as our reality in relationship •Love as the core energy of the universe •Suffering as part o...

Join Swami Padmanabha and Dhanya dasi, who holds a Master’s Degree in Counselor Education and a specialist degree in couples and family therapy, as they explore the value of relationships as a vital and necessary medium through which, and in which, we can integrate our humanity and our divinity, creating a full and fulfilling wholeness that blossoms to the point of becoming truly wise elders. “It...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Bhaktirasa discuss the necessity of the moment to upgrade our tradition’s past by recognizing our current responsibility to stay alive in our present participation rather than rest on the past achievements of great stalwarts who came before us or arrest our progress because of the tradition’s past mistakes and immaturity. If the Swe...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Vrinda-sundari, a transformative coach and founder of Harmony Sanctuary in Denver, discuss the vital role of communication in relation to cultivating our hearts so that there can be real transformation and fresh progress in our devotional practices, as well as the necessity of transformative communication in connection to this momen...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Arcana-siddhi, a marital counselor and practicing Vaishnavi for almost 50 years, consider a wide range of topics circling around the necessity to debunk the false myth that the grihasta ashram is intrinsically inferior to other ashrams and redeem the conception of the grihasta ashram from being the “deep, dark well of material exist...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Tamal Krishna explore various facets of prayer—from what it is not to many of its potential layers in the heart of the pray-er. Tamal Krishna shared the powerful effect that the book EFFECTUAL PRAYER by Frances W Foulks had on him since his youth, providing a process of prayer from relaxation, to preparation, to meditation, to conte...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Deva Madhava courageously explore many facets of Radical Organization and the shape it takes as institutions, and the relationship between them and people. During this balanced, thoughtful and free-flowing discussion, honestly acknowledging the deficiencies of both the institution and its members—such as over-expectation, idealizati...

In this episode, Swami Padmanabha and Jaya Jagannath discuss the importance of individuation, of “knowing who we are as an individual; accepting who we are; being who we are; becoming all that we can be”, and how Individuation is not only a preliminary requisite for a balanced experience of bhakti, but also a principle of reality that will play out in all of the different stages of our devotional...

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, we talk with Radhamadhav das on many relevant pressing issues concerning sexuality and spiritual practice, such as: the need to normalize conversations about sexuality and the danger of stigmatizing all forms of it the silencing of abuse and the usual denial of our difficulties in dealing with such principles due the vulnerability, rawness, and openness...

In this inaugural episode #0, Swami Padmanabha shares: …the intention and prospect of this podcast project, THE FREE RADICAL PODCAST, where each week he will invite friends, brothers, and sisters to meet in deep dialogue and vulnerability to share ideas about how to continue addressing the needs of our times, whether as Gaudiyas or members of other groups and traditions. …the meaning of the podcas...