
EP 20: Reincarnation
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Dharma of the Householder
Rama Krishna in the last century said there are three ways of renouncing the world. There is gradual renunciation, there is sudden renunciation and there is monkey renunciation. The man knows that his time is coming; he communicates his dharma to his son,. He goes into the forest to some teacher of yoga who perhaps his brahman has discovered form or just will go in quest. One assumes any garment at all, if one assumes anyone but a dead man it's not good. That conversation might just have done the trick, the thing that turned the world sour. And so there is a bit of a lesson, a very, very big lesson that might be learned from this
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