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First Meeting

The premiere episode of Ram Dass Here and Now! Raghu Markus of the Love Serve Remember foundation explores the origin and early years of Ram Dass. Never heard of Ram Dass? This episode will introduce...

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Journey to the East

Ram Dass talks about the mental and physical trials he experienced before traveling to India after he was fired from Harvard, and about embarking on his journey to the East to find his Guru. 

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In Limbo in India

Raghu arrives at his first ashram in India, disappointed because he didn't find the answers he was looking for. Meanwhile, Ram Dass ventures out of his comfort zone and follows Bhagavan Das on a...

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Guru Found

Raghu struggles with two deadly diseases in India while awaiting word from Ram Dass about his Guru, and ends up visiting "the Mother" at the Kainchi Ashram, where he finds peace and restfulness.  Then...

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Darshan

Still residing in India, Raghu and another Canadian go to meet Maharaji, who gave him a feeling of being home for the first time and showed him unconditional love. Meanwhile Ram Dass continues his...

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The Four Noble Truths

Maharaji teaches Raghu how to meditate before he travels into the mountains, and Ram Dass explores the Four Noble Truths.

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The Veil

Raghu, Ram Dass and other devotees travel to Kausani and rent a house overlooking the majestic Himalayas to do a meditation retreat. By cutting through the veil of illusion, one realizes they are not...

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It's All One

Raghu talks about a strange experience of unity through a "contact high" on retreat in the Himalayas with Ram Dass and the rest of the group. Ram Dass elaborates on unity and discusses our faith in...

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The Tibetan Lama

Raghu has a serendipitous encounter with a Tibetan Lama after he visits Maharaji in Kainchi. Ram Dass discusses the seductiveness of the rational mind. 

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Seeing Through the Illusion

Raghu and Ram Dass talk about the manipulation of the puny ego, Raghu tells his story of giving Maharaji stamps, but holding back half of them. Ram Dass talks about seeing through the illusion while...

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Letting it All Go

While in India, Ram Dass becomes angry at the Westerners, and Maharaji tells him to give up anger and that he would help him to release it. In his lecture he discusses yoga and how all is one – energy...

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Behind it All

Raghu takes his friend Krishna Das to visit Maharaji, who gives a teaching on the oneness of all traditions. Ram Dass talks about going behind our personalities and individual incarnation and karma...

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Fast Forward

In 1974, in the wake of the Nixon Watergate hearings, Ram Dass produced a box set of LP's called Love Serve Remember. Included in the set were excerpts from a radio show he did that consisted of...

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Meditation

Raghu tells a story about going to a meditation workshop with some of the Westerners in India, and how Maharaji was amused by the notion so asked them to explain to him what they learned about...

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Samadhi

Raghu tells about Maharaji and the people who were put into a state of deep Samadhi by him, which is the complete absorbtion into the divine. Ram Dass tells a story about a group of Indian soldiers who...

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Little Shmoos

Raghu tells a story about his father visiting he and his brother in India and Maharaji telling him to take LSD, which miraculously changed his life. As Ram Dass says, "I wasn't true to my deepest self...

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Yoga of Relationships

Ram Dass talks about relationships as a triangle with the third side of the triangle being shared awareness. He also talks about how the relationship of Guru and devotee has nothing to do with...

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Indian Stories

Ram Dass tells stories of his experiences in India that expanded his consciousness and allowed him to see the  true potential of human beings. The miraculous events that happened with Maharaji led Ram...

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Karma Yogi

Karma Yoga is the transformation of being that is based on your daily work in the world. Raghu describes this talk from Ram Dass, which was recently discovered in our media archives from 1974 when Ram...

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Embracing it All

Turn off your mind and float downstream. Embrace the ten thousand horrible visions and the ten thousand beautiful ones. Embrace it all. Ram Dass talks about the idea of servant, master, and surrender...

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