{"id":326,"date":"2014-05-22T20:50:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2014-05-22T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:56:15","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-sri-dharma-pravartaka-acharya-dharma-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya on The Dharma Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the-dharma-manifesto-frontcover-web-195x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-327\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the-dharma-manifesto-frontcover-web-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"the-dharma-manifesto-frontcover-web-195x300\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya was born in New York City. <span id=\"more-44476\"><\/span>He is a\u00a0European-American of Italian and Spanish heritage. He is widely recognized\u00a0as one of the world\u2019s most respected and qualified Dharma teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Acharyaji began his personal spiritual journey over 40 years ago at the\u00a0tender age of ten when he read the Bhagavad-Gita for the very first time.\u00a0He coupled his decades of intense spiritual practice and study with\u00a0advanced academic achievements, earning a B.A. in philosophy from Loyola\u00a0University Chicago, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies from\u00a0the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<br \/>\nExplaining to his doctoral advisor that \u201cI don\u2019t want to just study the\u00a0history of religion . . . I want to make religious history,\u201d Acharyaji\u00a0eventually left academia to devote himself exclusively to spiritual\u00a0teaching and to the restoration of the great tradition of Sanatana Dharma.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Sri Acharyaji occupies his full time teaching Dharma spirituality\u00a0to large audiences of Western students. In addition to leading classes,\u00a0seminars and lecturing widely on Sanatana Dharma, Sri Acharyaji is a\u00a0renowned author, as well as a personal spiritual guide (guru) to a rapidly\u00a0increasing following of enthusiastic students. His nine published books\u00a0include\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1907166327\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1907166327&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=countecurrenp-20\">The Dharma Manifesto: A New Vision for Global Transformation<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: currentColor;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=countecurrenp-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1907166327\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>,\u00a0which was just published by the European\u00a0New Right publisher Arktos Media.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the life and teachings of Sri Acharyaji, please\u00a0visit his website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counter-currents.com\/2013\/12\/robert-stark-interviews-sri-dharma-pravartaka-acharya\/www.dharmacentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.dharmacentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What exactly is Dharma from a philosophical perspective?<\/li>\n<li>Is Dharma synonymous with \u201cHinduism\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>What does Dharma have to do with Europeans and people of European decent?<\/li>\n<li>How did you become a follower of Sanatana Dharma?<\/li>\n<li>What is the basic premise and purpose of <em>The Dharma Manifesto<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>What is the Dharma\/Abrahamist divide?<\/li>\n<li>What is Conflict Theory?<\/li>\n<li>What actually constitutes a \u201cnation\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between natural diversity versus\u00a0multiculturalism?<\/li>\n<li>What would a Dharma Nation look like?<\/li>\n<li>The Hindu Caste System and why its a disaster to allow the merchant caste, the Vaisya to become the ruling class.<\/li>\n<li>How a Dharma based foreign policy would be implemented<\/li>\n<li>How a Dharma-based economic system would be implemented and how it is similar to distributism and opposed to usury<\/li>\n<li>Environmentalism and animal rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-326-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/StarkDharmaManifesto.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/StarkDharmaManifesto.mp3\">https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/StarkDharmaManifesto.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya was born in New York City. He is a&nbsp;European-American of Italian and Spanish heritage. He is widely recognized&nbsp;as one of the world&rsquo;s most respected and qualified Dharma teachers. Acharyaji began his personal spiritual journey over 40 years ago at the&nbsp;tender age of ten when he read the Bhagavad-Gita for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Stark interviews Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya on The Dharma Manifesto<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}