Thoughts on the Upanishads - Isha Upanishad: Verses 4 - 6

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Bearded Mystic Podcast and I'm your host, Rahul N. Singh. Thank you for taking out the time today to either watch or listen to this podcast episode. Today, we are continuing on with my thoughts on the Upanishads, and this series is exclusively for those on Patreon and Supercast and Apple Podcast subscriptions. Some important announcements to let you know of. To listen to the full episode, you need to sign up to Patreon or Supercast, where the details are in the video description and show notes below. Or you can listen to this episode on Apple Podcast subscriptions app itself.

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