Gadadhara Pandit Dasa

Our family meeting continues with a roundtable of thinkers from all types of religious backgrounds on how God connects with our everyday lives. With: Krista Tippett, host of On Being; Lisa Anderson, director of women’s multifaith education at Auburn Theological Seminary; Mark Epstein, a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of The Trauma of Everyday Life (Penguin Press, 2013); and Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, monk, lecturer and the first-ever Hindu chaplain for Columbia University, New York University, and Union Theological Seminary, and the author of Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine (Conscious Living, LLC, 2013).

What is Martin Luther King's impact on New York City today? Brian Lehrer plays highlights from this year's event at the Apollo Theater, co-hosted by Farai Chideya.

This segment originally aired live on the Brian Lehrer Show on December 10th. An edited version was included as part of a best-of episode on December 26. The unedited audio is posted here.

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, monk, lecturer, first-ever Hindu chaplain for Columbia University, New York University, and Union Theological Seminary, and the author of  Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine (Conscious Living, LLC, 2013), talks about his spiritual journey and what it’s like being a Hare Krishna monk in NYC.