Ramesh Venkatraman

16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -

Topics span spirituality, Hinduism, politics, culture, history, management, life, and anything else that catches my fancy...

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Episodes

Reading and reflecting on the Mahabharata, Chapter-02, Sixteen years later

March 16, 2022 14:52 - 8 minutes - 3.92 MB

English translation of the Mahabharata by Kamala Subramanian published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Reading and reflecting on the Mahabharata, Chapter-01: On the banks of the Ganga

March 16, 2022 14:14 - 14 minutes - 6.93 MB

From the English translation of the Mahabharata by Kamala Subramanian, published by the Bhavan's Book University

Reading the Mahabharata, chapter-04, The vow of celibacy

March 11, 2022 14:44 - 12 minutes - 6.18 MB

Reading and reflections on the Mahabharata

Reading the Mahabharata, Chapter-03, The fisherman's daughter

February 22, 2022 14:45 - 4 minutes - 2.41 MB

From the English translation of the Mahabharata by Kamala Subramanian and published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Readings from the Mahabharata, chapter-02 "Sixteen years later"

February 16, 2022 14:09 - 5 minutes - 2.6 MB

Readings from Kamala Subramanian's English translation of the Mahabharata published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Readings from the Mahabharata, Chapter-01, "on the banks of the ganga"

February 15, 2022 12:43 - 9 minutes - 4.57 MB

Readings from Kamala Subramaniam's English translation of the Mahabharata, published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Conversation-02 with Nilay Trivedi on Mantraha

April 20, 2021 16:51 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB

This is a continuation of the earlier conversation (conversation-01) where we discuss the need for manta-japa, the process, the benefits and other such allied topics

Conversation-01 with Nilay Trivedi on the Vishnu Sahasranama - Mantraha

April 18, 2021 08:28 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MB

This is nama 281 in the 1,000 names of Vishnu. In this conversation, I discuss how Sankara and Parasara the principal commentators interpret the nama and also my own reflection on the same. This conversation was recorded with Nilay Trivedi who is a practitioner and teacher of Yoga and is the first in the series.