Urban Monk

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 10, 2013

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.

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