0:00 – Intro to unscripted afternoon chat inspired by Yamsox's youtube live stream | Forthcoming roundtable discussion on Bearded Mystic's channel @YamsoxLives @TheBeardedMysticPodcast | my music youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RockAndDoubleBassWithAaronJoy ... 9:47 – Experiences with X/twitter | making social media positive ... 13:12 – India's Hindutva & RSS & Hindu Nationalism movement | "Modi's India" book ... 15:51 – Hinduphobia in America | criticizing Hinduism for improvement vs destruction | caste system, widow suicide, child brides ... 18:48 – Offended by religion in yoga | extreme activism vs artistic interpretation ... 21:19 – Swami Vivekananda's death anniversary | ISKCON & George Harrison | Jonestown ... 30:06 – Love & lacking self-awareness, knowing yourself | Yamsox (aka Lyam Boylan) | giving advice vs sharing love ... 37:23 – Advice to Aiden & other young folks frustrated with life & feeling defeated based on my own youthful struggles trying to be someone & do things in community | push negative people away | don't give up but don't go down with sinking ship | reinvent yourself when failing | following goals of others is not you ... 56:29 – Realizing god & becoming enlightened | not hearing god ... 59:55 – Different spiritual paths ... 1:02:43 – Deceptive Christians like missionary Ray Comfort ... 1:06:13 – Bhakti | reading scriptures ... 1:08:32 – Playing in a rockabilly band | Willy Martin & the Woods EP | Premanand Swami of Swaminarayan Sampradaya ... 1:13:54 – Being creative vs other other things | John Cage story | productive use of time ... 1:18:23 – Current books I'm reading: Reading multiple books simultaneously | Kerouac, reading from "The Railroad Earth" ... 1:26:15 – Current books I'm reading con't: "Killing Eve" | James Patterson & Bill Clinton | Napoleon's conquest of Africa | Dune | Jerzy Kosinski | Ayn Rand | Ramayana | North Korea's Yeonmi Park's "While Time Remains" | Eliot Ness of Untouchables | Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler | Bill Haley | Doctor Who ... 1:38:21 – Being like my influences ... 1:40:03 – 108 Upanishads ... 1:46:31 – Bhagavad Gita versions | Swami Mukundananda's prose version (available here: https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/) (Texas temple: https://www.radhakrishnatemple.net/) ... 2:02:31 – Value of chapter 2 in Gita | knowing your duty in spiritual journey ... 2:10:47 – Closing thoughts | book recommendations ... 2:18:35 – Osho thoughts (Note: referenced Osho book is "Rebellion, Revolution & Religiousness") | stamp collecting ... Live 7/4/2024, unedited and off the cuff. ... Find "Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy" book here: https://www.amazon.com/Modis-India-Nationalism-Ethnic-Democracy/dp/9391234844?&linkCode=ll1&tag=aaronjoyautho-20&linkId=115edc7f126288aa9b4d9c76c63e506d&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl (you support this channel by buying from this Amazon Associate link)