#spirtuality #journey In conversation with Sundar Kumabakonam. Sundar is a technologist In 2016, he quit as Senior Director, Engineering, Broadcom Corporation, and pivoted his life in a different direction, to something he deeply cared about. He started by launching the Tapasya Yogashala in Bangalore. In addition to Hatha Yoga classes, the studio offers Yoga Teacher Training Programs. In his quest for ‘something more than life as usual, and through his voracious reading and learning, he stumbled upon many great teachers and notably Gurdjieff , which provided a way to put theory into practice. He is an active member of the Gurdjieff Foundation of India. We get behind the scenes and learn about some fascinating ideas and people in the conversation. Chapter timelines 0:00 Intro and background 4:14 The beginning of the spiritual quest 6:12 Osho’s Influence 9:10 Possibility of past life determination 11:54 What about Osho was interesting 15:15 The domain of judging 28:37 The next big influence 34:19 The advice to pause 35:44 Gurdjieff and the Fourth way, the next big influence 48:58 AN intro to Ravi Ravindra 53:06 What is the Journeyswith.in all about 57:05 Why Yoga 1:06 Gurdjieff teaching of the three brains 1:12 Why endurance and spirituality are complementary 1:16 The last word