What do Coltrane, surfing and the spiritual life have in common? Lama Marut explains the meaning of the word Yoga and how to begin to understand the great spiritual classic The Bhagavad Gita.

Lama Marut (a.k.a. Brian K. Smith) is extensively trained in the spiritual traditions of India and Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion and taught for over two decades in the academic world, first at Columbia University and later at the University of California, where he retired as Professor Emeritus in 2004. He lived as a Buddhist monk for eight years and has served for the past fifteen years as a spiritual teacher to students around the world. Lama Marut is currently the Spiritual Director of eight “Middle Way Centers” located in North America, Australia, and Singapore.

In addition to several scholarly studies and translations based on Sanskrit materials, he is the author of the popular and award-winning book ‘A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life’ (Beyond Words, 2012), and ‘Be Nobody’ (Beyond Words, 2014) . With his unique mixture of erudition and earthiness, intensity and humor, conviction and openness, Lama Marut’s message is easily accessible and life changing.

This podcast is taken from a public talk by Lama Sumati Marut called “The Yoga of Devotion in the Bhagavad Gita” given in Singapore in December 2013.

You can listen to the full teaching at:
www.mahasukha.org/media/

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