Pilot Episode: Eternal Values For a Changing Society

Welcome to “Readings from Eternal Values for a Changing Society by Swami Ranganathananda.” This podcast brings you chapter-by-chapter readings and reflections from one of the most revered spiritual thinkers of modern India. Swami Ranganathananda, the 13th President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, was a visionary monk whose teachings bridged timeless Vedantic wisdom with the challenges of contemporary life. This episode is a brief overview of this illustrious author and his iconic treatise that I shall read to you chapter by chapter. The relevance of his words is timeless, and especially timely in today's world. We shall reflect on this and I will try and incorporate some interesting anecdotes from this life and teachings, that continue to affirm, how beautifully and poignantly he lived and practiced the truths, he so effortlessly expounded. Swami Ranganathananda was my Spiritual Guru, so on this auspicious day of Guru Purnima I am humbled to launch this first glimpse.