Podcast

Live from his hideout deep behind the former Bamboo Curtain, David Jorm riffs on life in China and the re-introduction of varnasrama social organisation in a modern context.

David Jorm on China and Varnasrama (ogg, 5 MB)

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video podcast is worth a thousand blog posts...

Here's a video podcast from the deck of the Red Hill ashram, discussing the proposed annotations with our recent guest David Jorm.

This is episode 1 of my new podcast for 2008 - Gramya-katha: "The Affairs of the Village". This will be a weekly 10 - 20 minute round up of the content of Planet ISKCON including comments threads, my take on anything that's been on there, plus what I've been up to.

Gramya-katha means "village talk", and Srila Prabhupada frequently used it in a negative sense to describe the b'aching that goes on in any society, and contrasted it with krishna-katha. However, in the transcendental sense gramya-katha and krishna-katha are the same thing - in Goloka Vrndavan Krishna is the talk of the town.

There is scope in any society for healthy discussion of the world we currently inhabit, in addition to eternal philosophical truths. There is nothing wrong with being a human being in addition to being a devotee - in fact you can't do one without the other!

Keep it real, and best wishes for 2008.

• Gramya-katha Episode 1 (22:52, mp3, 10MB)

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