Video Interviews

I have been in Colorado, USA, for the last few weeks, staying with my wife who is currently working near Denver. Here I am a couple of days ago, standing in front of a herd of elk who had come down to a picnic area just outside Rocky Mountain National Park.

The day before I went to this park I did an interview with Rick Archer for his site 'Buddha at the Gas Pump'. Rick interviews a different spiritual writer or teacher every week and posts the interview on his site. All the interviews he has done can be found here:

www.batgap.com

His interviews are also posted on Youtube. Here is our conversation, which covered a wide variety of topics:



A few weeks ago Michael James was also interviewed by Rick. This is his interview:



 
There are several more videos of Michael talking about Bhagavan on his Youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SriRamanaTeachings?feature=watch

A few months ago I also started a Youtube channel and loaded up a few videos that were mostly made in my old house about ten years ago. I also added some extracts from a South African documentary on modern advaita teachers that I featured in a few years ago, and a clip of Annamalai Swami. The channel can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBcqQGNwcSEwlv6gJXP-U9A/feed?view_as=public

Here is one of the videos I posted. It is a short talk I gave about Robert Adams' early life and his relationship with Bhagavan:



I hope to add several more videos in the coming weeks.

If you want to comment on any of these videos, there are three possible places. There is a forum on the www.batgap.com site where viewers can comment on the weekly video. There are separate forums for mine and Michael's interviews. It is also possible to make comments under the videos on the Youtube site. And, of course, you can also leave a comment on this blog.

I will be back in Tiruvannamalai soon.

Sorupa Saram

Apologies for the lack of contributions to the blog in recent times. I hope to remedy that with some long posts later in the year. Meanwhile, I am happy to announce that I have recently brought out an edition of Sorupa Saram that contains the original Tamil verses, an English translation of them, and an introduction that summarises the available information about its author Sorupananda, his chief disciple, Tattuvaraya.

Information about the text and its author can be found in one of my earlier posts:

http://sri-ramana-maharshi.blogspot.in/2011/05/tattuvaraya-and-sorupananda.html 

The text has been revised by T. V. Venkatasubramanian and myself since it was published in 2011 on this blog.

The book is available in India from the Sri Ramanasramam Book Depot. Those ordering from outside India can obtain it from my site:

http://www.davidgodman.org/books/buybooks.shtml

New Telugu Book

The devotees of Annamalai Swami have recently brought out a Telugu edition of Annamalai Swami: Final Talks. Unfortunately, the Ramanasramam management has decided that it does not want to stock this book in the Ramanasramam Book Depot. Telugu-knowing devotees who would like to purchase a copy of this new book should contact Sundaram, Annamalai Swami's former manager, attendant and interpreter. His email address is gurudeva000@gmail.com. 

Sundaram also has Tamil copies of Annamalai Swami's Final Talks and his Diary.

Open Thread

Ravi just informed me by email that the previous Open Thread, started last year, had reached 5,000 comments, and that it was refusing to take any more. 

Please continue all your discussions here.