RamDev reflects on the simultaneous depth and simplicity of mantra, highlighting his own transcendent experiences across devotional practices.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:

• Receiving miracles from Hanuman and the sense that all things are already taken care of
• The power and depth of mantra practice, despite its simplicity
• Shifting from mechanical repetition to embodied feeling and heartfelt presence within the mantra
• Allowing mantra practice to soften, open, and color the heart with devotion
• Conventional devotional practice and making a bridge to God
• Entering tantric devotion as a path of unity—becoming one with the deity rather than worshipping from afar
• Becoming the essence of the mantra and awakening the divine energy in our bodies
• Drawing comparisons between tantric devotion and the Buddhist Heart Sutra
• Realizing that it is all one as we transcend through layers of devotion

“You are the essence of the mantra. The mantra is not a tool, a pointer, a technique; it's the full manifestation of the divine. It’s awakening divine energy into your body with each repetition.” –RamDev

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Exploring embodiment and self-realization, RamDev takes listeners on a journey through the four paths of yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and Raja Yoga.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Karma Yoga, holding both success and failure equally—offering everything to God
• Bhakti Yoga and dissolving the ego through devotion
• The obstacles of Bhakti: getting lost in emotions and secularism
• Jñāna Yoga, the path of philosophical and contemplative minds
• The importance of allowing clarity and knowledge to serve compassion
• Raja Yoga, the path of meditation and discipline
• Looking at crises as motivation for doing more practice
• Blending yogic paths for the synthesis of head, heart, and mind
• The benefit of sticking to one path for a deeper experience
• Becoming embodied in order to heal addiction and trauma
• How crucial it is to go beyond conceptual reality

“Modern practitioners often blend these paths. Bhakti softens Jñāna’s austerity, Karma Yoga grounds devotion and service, Raja Yoga provides stability and focus. The synthesis of head, heart, and mind is the integral yoga of our age.” –RamDev

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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RamDev shares how to make every moment a living prayer, carrying the essence of mantra and devotion into both the sacred and the mundane.

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This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explores:

• RamDev’s personal struggles with integrating practice into his daily life
• Bringing heartfulness into mundane activities as a form of ceaseless prayer/practice
• Practicing out of richness, abundance, and adequacy, rather than out of need, separation, and inadequacy
• Making connectedness ongoing and constant, rather than something we struggle to find
• The compelling story of Raghu Markus and an answered prayer from Maharaj-ji
• Prayers of adoration, rejoicing, and gratitude
• Receiving direction and guidance through our prayers
• ‘Good pain’, aka, the pain of being released and of tension going away
• Trusting in the divine and surrendering in each moment

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

“Every moment is open to one of these kinds of prayer. How much can we trust integrating a prayerful attitude, heartfelt surrender to the divine into each moment, whether it’s a moment of gratitude, grief, intercession, thanksgiving, so many different possibilities.” –RamDev

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