Bishal Karna

The Spiritual Context Podcast

Education EN ↓ 27 episodes

Dedicated to the Ultimate Realization, this podcast features interviews with long-time spiritual practitioners and teachers, focusing on their spiritual biographies, core practices and perspectives, and approaches to integrating spirituality into everyday life. The host, Bishal Karna, is a professor of religious studies and a long-time spiritual practitioner.

Author

Bishal Karna

Episodes

Swami Chidatmananda- Allness of God, Love, Contemplation, and Self-Realization 14.01.2026 1:50:17

A contemplative conversation on the nature of God, meditation, karma, and spiritual awakening. Decades of devoted practice, but no hankering after the fruit of Self-Realization. Trained rigorously in the Hindu tradition yet unbound by it. Ever seeking to learn from spiritual luminaries, be it Swami Chinmayananda in India or Dr. David R. Hawkins in the USA. Fully engaged in the world while abiding...

Zen Teacher Daigaku Rummé - Monastic Training in Japan, Zazen, and Practice and Awakening 07.01.2026 1:58:49

A Zen practitioner for nearly fifty years, Daigaku Rumme trained for twenty-seven years under Sekkei Harada Rōshi at Hosshin-ji Monastery in Japan. He was later appointed Director of the North American Office of Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhism—the first American to hold this position. After stepping down from this role, Rumme founded Confluence Zen Center in St. Louis, Missouri, where he currently teac...