Dharma = Being Yourself & Following Your Heart | & Ways To Stay Accountable

About this episode

The episode explores the complexities of lineage, responsibility, and accountability within yoga traditions.

In our What Is Our Lineage, Actually? | Tradition vs. Innovation lecture, we started an inquiry into lineage, responsibility and accountability by taking into consideration all the subtleties and nuances of our tradition, from a historical and somewhat academic perspective. I offer a few stories from various sampradāyas (traditions) to show how multifaceted all of this can be to drive home the complexity of the Ramakrishna lineage and the ideals which we, across different interpretations, sta...

People in this episode

Host: Nishanth Selvalingam

Topics covered

• lineage
• responsibility
• accountability
• tradition
• innovation
• self-discovery

Keywords

• lineage
• accountability
• tradition
• innovation
• Ramakrishna
• yoga
• self-discovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: sampradāyas

Books & works: What Is Our Lineage, Actually?, Ramakrishna lineage

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