Living with Reality with Dr. Robert Svoboda – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Using an Ayurvedic lens, Paula Crossfield and Dr. Svoboda discuss the element of fire and the concept of Bhuta Agni.

This episode was originally published on Paula Crossfield’s The Cosmic Business Podcast

This time on Living with Reality, Paula and Robert :

• How fire is the reason that humans were able to expand
• The fascinating hypnotic effect of fire
• Agni as an element, personality, and being
• Transformation as the key quality of fire
• Digestion as transformation of energy
• Digesting emotions, thoughts, and concepts
• Tending to internal and external fires
• How Bhuta Agni is fed by sensory inputs
• The importance of being mindful when consuming
• Slowing down our thoughts so that we can digest what is going on
• Developing a relationship with our own life force
• Listening to what our organism tells us

About Dr. Robert Svoboda:

Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983.

In the years since 1986, Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending three months per year on average in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and allied subjects in locales across the world.

Join Dr. Svoboda’s courses, watch the latest video in Dr. Svoboda’s 5 Minutes series on Youtube and follow Dr. Svoboda on Facebook and Instagram for updates, events, and new content. You can also check out www.drsvoboda.com

About Paula Crossfield:

Paula Crossfield is Vedic astrologer and Business Coach dedicated to helping a million spirit-led entrepreneurs make more money and impact so they can bankroll the change they want to see in the world. Her insights on astrology and business strategy have helped her clients build sustainable five figure+ per month incomes while still embodying their values.

For more information on 1-on-1 opportunities and group coaching programs with Paula, go to www.weaveyourbliss.com, where you can also get the 2023 Astrology Guidebook

”Agni is regarded as a personality, as that element, but also that being who is able to release awareness and energy and heat and light from where it is being trapped in the earth and water elements and to release it into the less physical aspects of reality.” – Dr. Robert Svoboda

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Robert Thurman joins Dr. Svoboda once again for a vast discussion on his lineage, karma, and the chain of being.

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In this episode, Dr. Robert Svoboda and Robert Thurman converse about:

• Robert Thurman’s lineage, upbringing, and young adulthood
• Robert’s experience losing his eye and having a spiritual vision while in the hospital
• Robert’s journey to and through India and finding home with the Tibetans
• Robert’s instruction to bring Buddhism to those seeking enlightenment through psychedelics
• Karma producing an effect of biological evolution
• The danger of solipsism and how we have all been everything
• Living in inter-tangled subjective fields
• Astrology and the Zodiac

About Robert Thurman:

Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the Tibet House U.S., and is the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. His new book, Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life, is now available.About Dr. Robert Svoboda:

Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983.

In the years since 1986, Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending three months per year on average in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and allied subjects in locales across the world.

Join Dr. Svoboda’s courses, watch the latest video in Dr. Svoboda’s 5 Minutes series on Youtube and follow Dr. Svoboda on Facebook and Instagram for updates, events, and new content. You can also check out www.drsvoboda.com

About Paula Crossfield:

Paula Crossfield is Vedic astrologer and Business Coach dedicated to helping a million spirit-led entrepreneurs make more money and impact so they can bankroll the change they want to see in the world. Her insights on astrology and business strategy have helped her clients build sustainable five figure+ per month incomes while still embodying their values.

For more information on 1-on-1 opportunities and group coaching programs with Paula, go to www.weaveyourbliss.com, where you can also get the 2023 Astrology Guidebook

“I consider karma to be Buddha’s Darwinian theory.” – Robert Thurman

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Describing the conjuncture of the material and immaterial, Dr. Robert Svoboda teaches us how to work with Prana through Pranayama and the wisdom of Hanuman.

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In this episode, Dr. Robert Svoboda enlightens us on:

• Prana as a bridge between the material and non-material worlds
• How Prana influences every part of us that moves around, from our minds, digestion, to our circulatory system
• Cultivating Prana through Pranayama: perceiving Prana within our bodies and working with it
• Achieving Pranayama with breathing control, devotion to a diety, meditation, and more
• Constriction and control versus a steady alignment
• Poetry, personal experiences, and connecting to reality
• Learning about Prana through the wisdom of Hanuman

“The mind itself is conscious only because Prana provides it that quality of connection to a supreme consciousness that facilitates our being able to mirror that consciousness in whatever limited way we are able to do so.” – Dr. Svoboda

Discover Dr. Svoboda’s online courses here: https://drsvoboda.teachable.com/

About Dr. Robert Svoboda:

Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983.

Dr. Svoboda was born in Texas in 1953, and in 1972 earned a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma in Chemistry with a minor in French. After being ritually initiated into the Pokot tribe of northern Kenya as its first white member in June 1973 he moved to India, where he lived from 1973-80 and 1982-86, receiving his Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (Ayurvedacharya) from the University of Poona in 1980. In his final year of study at the Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya he won all but one of the University of Poona’s awards for academic excellence in Ayurveda, including the Ram Narayan Sharma Gold Medal.

The Aghori Vimalananda also owned thoroughbred race horses, and Dr. Svoboda served as his Authorized Racing Agent at the Royal Western India Turf Club in Bombay and Poona between 1975 and 1985. He later served as Adjunct Faculty at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM, and at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA.

In the years since 1986 Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending three months per year on average in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and allied subjects in locales across the world.

You can find out more about his work at www.drsvoboda.com and follow him on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.

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Dr. Svoboda offers an illuminating talk on honoring and working with our Rnanubandhanas, our karmic debts, in this lifetime and others.

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In this episode, Dr. Robert Svoboda shines light on:

-Rnanubandhanas – the karmic debts and bonds we bring into this lifetime and others

-Navigating the nuances of our specific karmas

-Getting free from the bindings of our rnanubandhanas

-Fair exchange and how not to create more rnanubandhanas

-Honoring and working with our debts to people, places, parents, teachers, humanity, food, and knowledge

-The Aghori Vimalanda’s wisdom around the four most important categories of rnanubandhana – Knowledge, Spouse, Money/Prosperity, Death

-Becoming Mukta (free, liberated)

“Whatever you obtain in your current lifetime, you are obtaining it because there has been a very definite connection in the past that has caused this delivery to occur in the present.” – Dr. Svoboda paraphrasing wisdom from the Aghori Vimalananda

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Illuminating the stories of Rama and Sita, Dr. Robert Svoboda offers a thorough explanation of the esoteric Ramayana.

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"That very ego that Kundalini is now trying to transform into pure Shakti that will focus on the soul, is being corrupted by that remnant of the ego that wants to maintain a limited individuality." – Dr. Svoboda 

In this episode Dr. Robert Svoboda gives a comprehensive talk on:

• The spiritual progress of an individual soul
• The trials and tribulations of Rama and Sita
• Focusing on the Supreme Reality 
• Shakti and the Ego
• The esoteric meaning in ancient texts
• Awakening Kundalini 

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In this special Hanuman story time, Dr. Svoboda shares illuminating and heart opening stories of the service-oriented Hindu monkey deity, Sri Hanuman-ji.

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"As is traditional when telling the story of the Ramayana, we specially invite Hanuman to come and sit, because that is the thing that he most likes to do. He likes to hear the Ramayana not because he wants to hear about his own story, but because he is focused always and eternally on Rama." – Dr. Robert Svoboda

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In an educational lecture on possessing knowledge, Dr. Robert Svoboda describes the four pramanas of Ayurveda.

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“No matter how accurate our perception is, it is only a teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy fragment of what there is to perceive.” – Dr. Robert Svoboda

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Dr. Svoboda shares the Hindu mythological story of Daksha's Yajna – the sacrifice of Daksha – involving the leela (play) of Shiva, Sati, & more. 

"If you're trying too much to be too holy, you're going to get in trouble." – Dr. Robert Svoboda

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This time on Living with Reality, Dr. Robert Svoboda lectures on the value of intoxicants and the natural urge to seek altered states.

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"If you are trying to simply always feel like you're in a good mood and you're always using some substance to feel like you're in a good mood, you're not dealing with reality. Because sometimes in reality things are going to be great and sometimes they're going to be terrible and you have to be in a position to deal with both of those states of being and not be disturbed, not be distracted from your purpose in life." – Robert Svoboda

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Dr. Robert Svoboda gives a historical account of Ayurveda from the Vedic period to Classical India in this episode of Living with Reality.

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"We need to align ourselves as best as possible, get out in nature whenever we can, because it is the order in nature that is really maintaining our order." – Dr. Robert Svoboda

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