…I didn't really think about until I was living in India and I lived in the ashram of a great Benedictine teacher, Father Bede Griffiths in South India. It was called Satchitananda Ashram in Indian and in English, the Ashram of the Holy Trinity. Sat in…

…I think is the most important model of ultimate reality, It's not just me. I'm primarily influenced by my principal teacher, Father Bede Griffiths, who lived in India for many years. And what I think is the most brilliant book of modern theology, David…

…and the Christian tradition which seemed a bit shallow on the spirituality side. When I discovered this wonderful teacher, Father Bede Griffiths, who had a Christian ashram in South India. He was an English Benedictine monk who'd lived there for centuries.…

…ICRISAT, in Hyderabad, India. And while he was in India, he lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Father Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book entitled A New Science of Life, which was published in 1981. There's also…

…and transcendent. Well, I would think something very similar to that actually. I lived two years in India in the ashram of Father Bede Griffiths, a Benedictine monk who had an Indian style ashram in Tamil Nadu. And in English it was called the Ashram of…

…got to the point where I felt I could write it up in a book. I did that in an ashram in South India, Father Bede Griffiths, who was a Christian Benedictine monk in an Indian style ashram. He wore orange robes and it was a very Indian ashram, actually…

…confirmed until I was 34 in the Church of South India. And I then discovered a wonderful British Benedictine monk called Father Bede Griffiths living in an ashram in South India. I spent two years there. And for me, that was the perfect bridge between…

…didn't have the mystical depth that the Hindu tradition had. and at that stage I came across this wonderful teacher called Father Bede Griffiths who was a British Benedictine monk living in an ashram in South India who was deeply immersed in the Upanishads…

…I was confirmed in the Church of South India. And I then found a fantastic ashram where I lived for two years, Father Bede Griffiths, who was an English Benedictine who had a Christian ashram in South India. Which was exactly to my taste. It was very…

…in Hyderabad, India, on tropical crops. Huge range, as you can see. Rupert also lived for two years in the ashram of Father Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu. Now, Dr. Mark Vermnom was formerly a priest in the Church of England and is now a psychotherapist,…

…of the change. Yes. I first came across it when I was living in South India. I was living in the ashram of Father Bede Griffiths. and we went to, we were traveling through the countryside and we came to a place where there had been a Jain monastery…

…was a great scholar and a very, very spiritual man. So he was my teacher, I would say. Richard? My main teacher was Father Bede Griffiths, who was a British Benedictine monk who lived for many years in India. And he lived in a small ashram in Tamil…

…you speak English. But ultimately, it's the love which you can speak in English or in Hindi. In the same way, it's what Father Griffiths in his Marriage of the East and West, says is that it's the essence which is much more common and therefore he…

…I went there, and it was Shantivanam. I didn't even realize it was a Christian ashram before I arrived. And there was Father Bede Griffiths in his orange robes with his long white beard, the very kind of cross between a Christian saint and Gandalf living…

…International Crops Research Institute in Hyderabad. I spent two years in an ashram in South India, a Christian ashram run by Father Bede Griffiths, who was an English Benedictine monk, who lived in the Indian style, wore orange robes and so on. It was a…

…Christian tradition rather lacking in the mystical, the rather more juicy mystical insights that Hinduism has. And then I met Father Bede Griffiths, who introduced me to the Christian mystical tradition. And I became aware there was a lot more to it than…

…of gradually went through a number of spiritual teachers from Sufism, Buddhism, others, and then the major influence was Father Bede Griffiths. And I'm just interested in how you connect your kind of spiritual journey and explorations with your scientific…

…consciousness beyond the human level, which we can experience through mystical experiences. But each religion interprets it in its own way. Father Bede Griffiths, who was my main teacher, compared it to the palm of the hand, that if the sense of being part…

…Society. He worked in India as a Principal Plant Physiologist and also lived for two years in the Benedictine Ashram of Father Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu. From 2005 to 2010, he was Director of the Carid Boric Project, funded from Trinity College in…

…I thought, okay. So I tried it out and it worked really well for me. And then I met a wonderful Christian teacher, Father Bede Griffiths, who lived in an ashram, a Benedictine monk in an ashram in South India, where I spent some time. I wrote my first…