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Personal & Impersonal: In Search of a Harmonious Absolute| Free Radical Podcast #51—Swami Medhananda
In this rich interfaith episode, Swami Padmanabha sits down with Swami Medhananda, monk of the Ramakrishna Order and philosopher of religion, to explore whether the Absolute must be either personal or impersonal—or whether it can lovingly hold both.
They trace Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna Vedanta, Vivekananda’s pluralism, and the nuanced view of bhakti traditions like Gaudiya Vaishnavism. How do we honor diverse spiritual experiences without falling into hierarchy—or relativism? Can rasa and Brahman co-exist? What is lost when we flatten God into one single face?
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