Lunch with Bokara
GOD IS EVERYWHERE...AND NOWHERE
with Swami Chidanand Saraswati
and Wes Nisker
Available on DVD and video cassette

Select a Program from the Series:
Meditation, Emotions & Body Language
Food for the Soul
Healing, Family & Community
The Monk & The Rabbi
Transformation and Mindfulness
Zen and the Art of African Initiation
Compassion in Action
The Heart of Islam
Myths, Money and Meaning
The Taoist and the Activist
Peace through Dialogue
Our Place in the Cosmos
God is Everywhere...and Nowhere

Celebrating her penchant for bringing interesting people from different traditions together for the first time over lunch, host Bokara Legendre invites a Hindu Swami from the Himalayas who believes in a pantheon of Gods, to meet an American Buddhist teacher who follows the non-theistic spiritual path of emptiness. Witness two teachers from two very different cultures and traditions share their insights on the core concepts of religious faith.

"In Hinduism, there are not 'many Gods' - there is nothing BUT God. But 'God' in Hinduism says that whatever the way that my devotee worships me, I will appear in that form. Whatever that is. It's no problem, because he's God. He can come in any form, and yet he is formless. So, it's not that we worship 'the form', we worship THROUGH the form."
Swami Chidanand Saraswati

"I'm a secular humanist, and I think one of the reasons that I was so attracted to Buddhism was that it did not ask me to have a belief in any particular form of a God. So when I bow to the Buddha, I'm bowing to that quality in all of us that is compassionate, and awake, and alive, and appreciative of this moment, this present moment, right now."
Wes Nisker