Ep 568: Christ & Advaita: The Surprising Alignment of East and West

In today’s episode of The Daily Vedantic, we connect Jesus’ call to “metanoite” — transform your mind — with Advaita Vedanta’s path of making the objective subjective through inquiry, intellect, and surrender to the higher. From the image of four crosses to Christ’s “kingdom of heaven is within you,” we explore how Vedanta and the Gospels align on complete inner transformation, discerning truth from falsehood, and following the example rather than merely reciting it. If you’ve wondered how Eastern nondual wisdom and Christian teaching meet in practical daily practice, this talk shows why the path is personal, experiential, and available now.

The Daily Vedantic is a daily podcast and YouTube channel dedicated to the timeless wisdom of the Upanishads (https://thedailyvedantic.com/). Dating back to over 5,000 years ago, the source of nearly all Eastern Philosophy, and loved by Western giants from Emerson to Thoreau to Carl Jung and Alan Watts, studied daily by Joseph Campbell to Aldous Huxley to Arthur Schopenhauer and countless others, The Daily Vedantic aims to make this ancient philosophy as modern and accessible as it is simple, practical — and profound.

James Beshara ( https://www.twitter.com/jamesbeshara ) is a renowned startup founder of multiple companies, a prolific startup investor in 200+ others including some of the biggest startup names on the planet, a husband and father of three little girls, and philosophy student and teacher in Los Angeles.

James also co-hosts Yoga For Your Intellect (https://www.YFYI.co), a biweekly long-form conversational podcast with his teacher Joseph Emmett ( https://www.instagram.com/yogaforyourintellect )

James is a student of Swami Parthasarathy, the acclaimed author of Vedanta Treatise (Vedanta Treatise – The Eternities)  and teacher at Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India. As James says often, when you’re ready for the real thing, Swami’s daily lectures are where the true wisdom and systematic discovery of the world’s oldest continually studied philosophy resides: https://www.vedantaworld.org