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March 17, 2024 64 mins

In today’s The Labyrinth podcast, I’m honored to join one of my closest spiritual companions, Shobitha Kedlaya and her spiritual friend Ramesh Krishnan.

I met Shobitha four years ago at her organic farm and community in Andhra Pradesh. We immediately connected through a shared narrative of our complex maternal identities. Shobitha is a trained dancer, holds an MBA, and left a thriving career in the textile industry to cofound Protovillage, a model back-to-our-roots village that has become a magnet for educators and seekers from across the world. Most recently, Shobitha took another more personal leap, transforming her own journey as a seeker into a space of inquiry into the ways our identities often become the obstacles to awakening our purpose and interconnection with reality itself.

We are joined also by Ramesh Krishnan, author of The Urban Monk Diaries, who inspired Shobitha’s journey more than a decade ago. As Ramesh Babu will share with us, his own journey began in his twenties when he felt unsure of what to do, who he was, and which path to choose. In his writing, he explores the Eight Chambers of the Urban Shaolin which begins with discovering the Real nature of objects and moves toward a meeting with our mysterious I. Shaolin is a temple and we journey within the temple of Reality as we walk the labyrinth: with intention, curiosity, and above all, faith.

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