What is the Gayatri Mantra? Where did it come from? Who made it? Why is the Gayatri Mantra so rad?
Episode 80 is a deep dive into my history and experience with this miraculous prayer. The second half of the talk is the origin story of the Gayatri Mantra - a compelling tale of the sage Vishwamrita and his transformation from a not-so-cool warrior king into a full-blown Brahma Rishi.
This episode is the first I have recorded and filmed at the same time. So pardon if I get a bit distracted at times, this was new to me - looking at my face while talking. Or actually trying not to look at my face while talking.
Also please pardon the interruption about 3/4 of the way through. An Amazon delivery showed up during a particularly gripping part of the story, so I paused the video.
Enough apologies, I hope you enjoy the episode.
LINKS:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisdheinen
Substack: https://miraclesoup.substack.com/
Om Swami: omswami.com
Om Swami's Book "The Hidden Power of the Gayatri Mantra"
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Lessons from a "Homeless" Sage
Today’s episode is about a remarkable conversation I had with a truly remarkable man named Alex. Alex has been a minimalist nomad (or what many would call “homeless”) since undergoing a series of profound psychedelic experiences in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in 1968. This was one of those conversations you are blessed to have which leave such an impression that you can’t help but share it with whomever might listen.So listen up, thanks for tuning in, and as Alex did…. Dropping out…
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Alternative Metrics for Wealth
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Lizard Tails
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Thank you for listening.
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Be As It May: The Remarkable Life of a Spiritual Madman
Episode 76: In this show, I share the biography of a Spiritual Master from India whose name kept popping into my head inexplicably on what I later discovered was his birthday.
The sage's name is Upasani Maharaj, and he is one of the most hard core tough-ass Gurus I've ever come across.
It is my hope that this story inspires you, as it has me, to embrace the suck, lean into discomfort, and shy not from pain, for as we know, this is where the real growth happens.
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Be As It May - Upasani Maharaj
I always used to beg with a broken earthen pot
and eat from it, drink from it.
I used to roam about naked
I used to lie by a dust div and used a
few rags to cover myself.
People used to
take me to be a madman
but remember unless you become mad
cannot obtain godhood.
Forbearance to its maximum
means the attainment of the original
Forbearance to its maximum.
Sometimes one gets crumbs of bread while
some other time one gets to eat nice sweet things.
While at other times one has to fast.
That is how things happen.
One should allow things to happen.
One should follow:
Be as it may.
yes man
whatever comes up should be accepted
Go ahead.
It is always better to have pain to suffer
If you suffer with pleasure you will get plenty of pleasure.
Whosoever wants to be happy has to suffer for it first.
That is why I tell everybody that comes here that they
should not mind pain.
They should patiently bear it, suffer it even with pleasure.
They should never try for pleasure or happiness.
They should always remain content with whatever they have.
The most important mantra of mine is:
Be as it may.
I've been constantly saying that everything has two aspects,
night is opposed to day and both these opposites
together constitute a whole day.
Nothing can change it.
In the same way pleasure is always associated with pain.
If you want pleasure you are bound to have pain.
As well if you can accept pain with
pleasure it leads you to infinite God.
This Siddhanta.
This is way.
Forbearance to its maximum,
After all God is real.
Honor, evolve,
And if he chooses to take away all or
anything from it no you can’t you prevent him.
Be as it may.
Ireland