Latest Maharishi mahesh yogi Podcast Episodes
Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Vedic Worldview - May 21, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsIn the recent episode about punya and deserving power, Thom clarified that good fortune is a result of expanding our consciousness, rather than a reward for good behavior. This still leaves the question open though, about why “bad things” happen to “good people.” In this episode, Thom...
Punya - How to Increase Your Deserving Power
Vedic Worldview - May 14, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsGood fortune is often seen as some kind of cosmic reward for good behavior. “If I do good things, then good things will happen to me.” This has actually evolved as a misunderstanding of the concept of karma. Rather than being a reward, the Vedic position on good fortune is that it is a...
Yudhishthira and the Most Wondrous Thing
Vedic Worldview - May 07, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsMaharishi Mahesh Yogi said on more than one occasion that free will was God’s greatest gift to mankind. And while that may well be, we have to ask ourselves whether we actually make the most of this gift. In this episode, Thom takes us to a pivotal moment in The Mahabharata, when Yudh...
Navigating Family Relationships When Times Are Difficult
Vedic Worldview - April 30, 2023 23:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsFamily relationships aren’t usually simple or straight forward. This is a matter of design, because our karmic blueprint brings us into family situations where we can play out the dramas necessary for our evolution. In this episode, Thom answers questions from listeners about the dyna...
AI and Singularity. Is this the beginning of the end?
Vedic Worldview - April 23, 2023 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsBy the time 2023 comes to a close, there’s a very good chance that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a front runner for the Word of the Year. Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the use and development of AI tools for day-to-day purposes has exploded. People are coming up w...
How to Cope in Tough Economic Times
Vedic Worldview - April 16, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsFew things stir up fear quite like the economy does. Though few of us could even accurately define what “the economy” actually is, talk of a tough economy is enough to cause most people worry. Whether it be mortgage increases, rising inflation, falling stock prices, or looming recessio...
The Impact of Habits on Our Evolution
Vedic Worldview - April 11, 2023 23:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsIf we look at the origin of the word habit, it comes from Latin, meaning have, or consist of. Hence the once common saying, Habits maketh man. So if our habits essentially define, in a sense, who we are, then it makes sense for us to adopt habits that are more evolutionary in nature th...
Maya is Not an Illusion
Vedic Worldview - April 09, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsOne of the most commonly misunderstood Sanskrit terms is the word Maya. It’s frequently referred to as “illusion” and is sometimes used to describe “reality” as being unimportant or insignificant. Often when it’s used in spiritual circles, it’s an attempt to imply that one has a sense...
My Non-Vedic Reading List
Vedic Worldview - April 02, 2023 23:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsThom gave us plenty of reading in his recent episode covering his favorite Vedic literature. In this episode, he closes the loop and shares some of his favorite non-Vedic literature. Not surprisingly, most of it is non-fiction and explores the ways in which the Universe, and we humans...
Questions About Karma
Vedic Worldview - March 26, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsThe notion of karma raises a lot of questions, often because the concept is totally misunderstood. It’s most commonly seen as a cosmic form of reward and punishment, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is certainly a tool for course correction, but it doesn’t come with any ...
The Rising Tide of Anxiety - the Cause and the Solution
Vedic Worldview - March 19, 2023 23:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsAnxiety is a downward spiral that many struggle to control. It’s the price many are paying for living in an overstimulated world. We’re bombarded with messaging from countless sources hundreds of times a day, and these are competing with our own restless minds, churning away with the ...
Satsang - An Invitation from Thom Knoles
Vedic Worldview - March 15, 2023 19:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsThis bonus episode is an invitation from Thom for Vedic meditators to join his new Satsang online community. Satsang is more than just an online community. It's your 24/7 home where you can transform Vedic knowledge into personal wisdom that you can use in your day-to-day life. For mo...
My Vedic Reading List
Vedic Worldview - March 12, 2023 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsRead any good books lately? Vedic literature is rich in timeless content, and few epics have lasted the thousands of years that some of the Vedic epics have survived. Vedic epics combine the best of drama and unforgettable storytelling while still being steeped in deep wisdom at every ...
Where Do Suicidal Thoughts Come From?
Vedic Worldview - March 06, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsGet ready for a fresh perspective on suicide and suicidal thoughts. In response to a question from a listener, Thom gives us a lot to contemplate in this episode, including redefining how we think about suicide, introducing the concept of “long suicide,” and reminding us that body dea...
Shruti - The Sound of Manifestation
Vedic Worldview - February 27, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsVedic Meditators frequently report heightened perception of the sense organs. Colors may become crisper, shades of light and dark may become more ‘interesting,’ subtler tastes may be detected in food, and smells may be detected, even in the most minute concentrations. One of the most...
Mood Making - What it is and Why We Should Avoid it
Vedic Worldview - February 20, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsMost groups or communities have a few pretentious players within them; people who wear a mask or ‘put on a show’ to attract attention to themselves and to elevate their status. While one might think that the “spiritual” arena might be beyond such behavior, regrettably that’s not the ca...
The Difference Between Luck and Good Fortune
Vedic Worldview - February 13, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsThe Oxford Dictionary defines luck as: success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions, or, chance considered as a force that causes good or bad things to happen. Long-term listeners will straight away see that chance is incompatible with the Vedic...
The Beauty of Sanskrit
Vedic Worldview - February 06, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsWhile many of us think of language as something that evolved from the grunts and noises made by our prehistoric ancestors, Sanskrit, the ancient language of the Veda, has a very unique distinction; it’s an ‘inspired’ or cognized language, reflecting the intention of Nature through sound...
Tantra - Embracing the Art of Brinkmanship
Vedic Worldview - January 30, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsMention tantra and most people think of sexual practices designed to prolong the sexual experience or to add a ‘spiritual’ element to it. While the principle of tantra can certainly be applied to sex, it’s actually a concept that has much broader and more interesting applications. St...
Worst-case Scenarios | Parts Work | Intentions and Goal Setting
Vedic Worldview - January 23, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsThere’s no shortage of questions from our podcast audience, which is perfect because Thom is never short of an answer… The common thread throughout this Q&A episode is that we’re all much more empowered than we might think. Thom reminds us that Nature loves it when we commit, and that...
The Role of the Mistaken Intellect in Evolution
Vedic Worldview - January 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsVedic wisdom is full of contrasting ideas. We’re told that evolution is the only thing that’s ever happening, yet we’re also told that the intellect is ‘mistaken’ and that it holds us back from experiencing enlightened forms of Consciousness. Can both be true? Can we be both mistaken ...
My Time in Prison
Vedic Worldview - January 09, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsMost people are surprised to hear that Thom Knoles has spent time in prison. And not just one prison. Several in fact. And not just in one country. He’s spent time in multiple prisons in Australia and the United States of America. Listen in as Thom shares the tale of how he took contr...
The Vedic Perspective on the New Year
Vedic Worldview - January 02, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsHappy New Year! Or is it? While large parts of the world celebrate the start of a new calendar year on January 1st, much of the world celebrates the New Year at other times. Many cultures base their New Year on events in Nature, astronomical events, or a combination of both. In this ...
Vedic and Australian Aboriginal Connections. Evolution and Devolution
Vedic Worldview - December 26, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsThis Ask Thom Anything episode explores ancient cultures, the process of evolution and the possibility of devolution. Thom shares an anecdote about a journey to outback Australia as an envoy for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to seek the blessing of Aboriginal Elders, where he discovered an une...
Trust vs Certainty
Vedic Worldview - December 19, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsHow much trust did you have that the sun would rise this morning? And even if it was hidden by clouds, did you still trust that it was there? Unless you live near one of the polar caps, where you can go for months without seeing the sun, no doubt you had enough certainty that you didn’...
The Three Gunas
Vedic Worldview - December 12, 2022 00:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsEvolution is the only thing that’s ever happening, but what’s the mechanism behind evolution? The Vedic perspective tells us that everything that happens in ‘the relative’ is governed by the three ‘gunas.’ In this episode Thom describes the three gunas as balancing agents, engaged in...
Mata, Pita, Guru
Vedic Worldview - December 05, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsWe could be forgiven for thinking that Mata, Pita and Guru, Mother, Father, and ‘Teacher,’ refer to specific people in our life. But as we’ve come to expect from Vedic wisdom, there is much more to these words than meets the eye. In this episode Thom explains the connotative meaning of...
Memory and Dementia
Vedic Worldview - November 28, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsAccording to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in three seniors in the USA dies with some form of dementia*. And with the rapidly-aging population, numbers are expected to double within the next thirty years. These are sobering statistics but in this episode, Thom puts forward the Vedic...
My Time in Australia
Vedic Worldview - November 24, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsWith a father as a high-ranking officer in the US Air Force, Thom Knoles has been traveling internationally from a very young age. Under the wing of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Thom traveled even more, visiting countries with him on almost every continent. But the country Thom has spent the...
Protest - Enhancing Vedic Meditation - Japa Meditation
Vedic Worldview - November 21, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsWe’re turning over the content of the podcast to our listeners once again, with another Ask Thom Anything episode, this time with a recurring theme of ‘effectiveness.’ Protest has become fashionable in recent years but Mary from Australia wonders how effective it is, especially in the ...
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