Keeping Good Company: Recent Episodes
Padma Ayyagari
This podcast unpacks Pope Francis's Encyclical titled 'Culture of Care' and defines how placing a ceiling on desires on our consumption can create contentment which gives rise to natural compassion that allows us to care for each other.
Our mind is a hard province of our world which often causes a lot of dissatisfaction and discontentment arising out of unfulfilled desires, ambitions as well as comparisons and judgements. This podcast gives three ways to break that hard province of your world and soften it with love, compassion and kindness.
Light is a universal source of energy. Without light no living being can survive. This meditation as a visualization exercise that invites the light from the Sun into the body to cleanse the toxins, remove darkness and negativity, purify and energize the body to think, say and do the same thing. Then the light is sent into the world to remove darkness and dispel negativity, to fill the world with a radiant bright light. The light is then brought back and stored in the heart centre as an eternal companion that provides strength, courage, hope, love and compassion. First the Light is in you, then you are in the Light and finally You and the Light are One.
This episode unpacks Detachment and how our minds work in creating an auto loop of narrative based on thoughts, memories, beliefs, attitudes and opinions. Emotions and its three components are discussed and the difference between emotions and feelings is highlighted.
It is said that Good Company (Satsangh) leads to Detachment, which leads to Desirelessness and ultimately to Liberation. This episode unpacks the meaning of Good Company and raises the questions as to what Good Company actually means.