Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor - "On The Bhagavad Gita"

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J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, coauthors of When Love Comes to Light: Bringing Wisdom from The Bhagavad Gita Into Modern Life, talk with J about their new translation and interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. The conversation begins with a check-in on how things are going in the pandemic and then turns to the relevance of the Gita to our current situation. They discuss the text as a commentary on hierarchies and power structures, and a primer for intuitive knowing and overcoming difficulties. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.1	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.3	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.1	Welcome to anyone who's new to the show today. And thanks and what's up to all the rest of y'all.
0:25.0	How are we? Are we doing okay? It's not always that easy to tell, is it? Well, I have to tell you,
0:33.2	the pendulum has been swinging, my friends. The pendulum has been swinging.
0:39.9	If you were here last week, you know, I was right up against it.
0:43.4	It was right at the end of the week.
0:45.3	It was late night.
0:46.6	I was probably talking way too much.
0:49.7	And then this week, it's midday, midweek, and I'm under like a kind of tight schedule.
0:56.4	I'm not going to be able to talk too much today at all.
0:58.7	And that's for the best.
1:00.7	But it's a totally different vibe, you know?
1:03.3	It's like, I'm just not used to recording this early in the week.
1:06.7	Normally, I never would record this early on.
1:09.7	I wait till the end of the week and I kind of
1:11.7	reflect back on everything that happened. But now I'm like, I'm in the middle of it. There's no
1:16.3	reflecting. I'm not in a reflecting place right now. But like I said, it's fine because really
1:22.3	today's episode with Mary Taylor and Richard Freeman really ought to just stand all on its own.
1:29.7	Does it need me getting in the way?
1:32.2	And, you know, me choosing to do this right now is because I know that there's some circumstances at the end of the week
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