The Bearded Mystic Podcast
Rahul N Singh host of The Bearded Mystic Podcast explores the Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedanta or Nonduality in a very simple, direct and practical way.
Episodes include discussions into eastern scriptures like The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads etc and discussions about everyday spirituality.
Rahul has been on the spiritual path for over 20 years and has an open-minded approach to spirituality and finds that there is no one size fits all approach.
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Names Dissolve, Blessings Remain: A Spiritual Reflection
The importance we place on the name we give to God reveals more about our spiritual maturity than our understanding of divine truth. Spiritual growth involves recognizing that names for the divine are just different expressions pointing to the same ultimate reality.
• Names for God vary across traditions - God, Allah, Brahman, Nirankar - but all refer to the same divine essence
• How we receive blessings from different traditions demonstrates our spiritual maturity
• Words like love, compassion, and kindness can all be used to describe the ultimate essence
• Attachment to specific divine names often reflects ego rather than spiritual realization
• Names themselves can become idols just as physical forms can
• Appreciating someone's blessing regardless of terminology honors their intention
• Spiritual maturity involves moving beyond fixation on specific words or names
• When someone offers a blessing, they're giving their time and positive intention
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I was planning to do a different type of video today, but I received a message and it triggered some thoughts. How important is the name that we give to God? You can call it God, you can call it any name according to your religious background, and it doesn't matter to me what you call God, whether you call it Brahman, whether you call it Allah Vaikru, I call it Nirankar. Does it matter to me what you call it? No, but what's important is that if somebody offers a blessing to you, how you receive that blessing says a lot about your spiritual maturity. Even though I say Nirankar for God, I can use love as well. I can use compassion, I can use kindness, any word that reminds me of the ultimate essence, I can call it isness. It doesn't really matter to me what we call it, but there's many times when it's a birthday, or it's Krish's birthday, or it's my wife's birthday, and people say all sorts. Some say may Bhagwan bless you, may Radharani bless you. My Muslim friends say may Allah bless you.
Speaker 1:I take the blessing. It doesn't matter what name is said, because once you understand the ultimate truth, names and forms dissolve. The more we get stuck on names shows more about our ego than our realization or what we truly know, and whether what we know is merely just another idol. A name can be an idol, not necessarily just a form that we see. It really does strike me when we forget the essence and and the main point is receive the blessing, honor, the blessing. That is more important.
Speaker 1:The words that someone names for god is less important. And this is something I have had to also mature from, because a lot of times I used to also say well, someone should use the same word that I use. That's my ignorance, not maturity. And I feel the more I have traveled on this spiritual path, the more I realized the name is not important, the more I've realized the name is not important, the intent, the blessing, how open my heart is, how open my mind is, the better it is to receive that blessing. When somebody takes time out of their day to offer a blessing, that's such a big honor because they could be really busy, and the fact that they've taken that time one should respect that. You're listening to the Bearded Mystic Podcast. I'm Rahul N Singh. Take care, namaste.
