Jun 29, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
This episode of Dharmic Life on the BAPS Better Living podcast explores Dr. Tony Nader’s book The Power of Caring and why modern society, especially younger generations, faces loneliness, isolation…
Tony NaderGuestDhawalHostKashifHostKashyapHostI, I wanna take a moment to, to reflect on your book, The Power of Caring, uh, Dr. Nader.
Uh, but not just the book, but there's a moment at the beginning of the book where you write eloquently about being a young physician, a young doctor, and you're sitting with a patient, uh, that's sick and afraid at 3:00 in the morning.
Um, and then you write at that moment, uh, "Caring wasn't optional." Uh, it wasn't like it was one of many, many options.
It was the only option.
It was the only thing that made sense.
And I wonder if we could start there, uh, because I think that moment really captures so much of spirituality, philosophy, biology, theology.
Uh, medicine is a vocation, um, and when one does something f- with full heart, with full, um, being, uh, not just as, uh, a profession to earn money, which it is, and it's fine.
Uh, people who work hard should be compensated, and who do good job, good work should also get remunerated for it.
But what makes one more fulfilled in when- one's life is to perform, as we say, one's duty, one's dharma, uh, if you like to use it in that, uh, perspective.
You know, as the Bhagavad Gita tells us that one's performance in one dharma is even better than trying to do something else, even, uh, you know, that sounds more laudable.
And so in my heart, in my feeling, I was doing, uh, what was needed, uh, and that is where, uh, I felt that caring at this moment, uh, this was one moment, but of course, we all have similar moments and many that come through in our life under different situations.
That there is a connection, uh, between humanity at the level of what is needed right now, and there was no question in my mind that my presence was needed, uh, my reassurance was needed.
And so this was totally spontaneous, and we know that caring is wired in us as a human species.
You get, uh, feedback from dopamine to increase the desire to do it, and it helps us as a human, uh, species to be together to create all the beautiful things we create, and it has, of course, um level which is beyond just those practical aspects, which is the evolution of life, the meaning of life, the expansion of oneself.
And, you know, all great traditions talk about do unto others what you would want them to do unto you, et cetera.
I, I wanna take a moment to, to reflect on your book, The Power of Caring, uh, Dr. Nader.
Uh, but not just the book, but there's a moment at the beginning of the book where you write eloquently about being a young physician, a young doctor, and you're sitting with a patient, uh, that's sick and afraid at 3:00 in the morning.
Um, and then you write at that moment, uh, "Caring wasn't optional." Uh, it wasn't like it was one of many, many options.
It was the only option.
It was the only thing that made sense.
And I wonder if we could start there, uh, because I think that moment really captures so much of spirituality, philosophy, biology, theology.
Uh, medicine is a vocation, um, and when one does something f- with full heart, with full, um, being, uh, not just as, uh, a profession to earn money, which it is, and it's fine.
Uh, people who work hard should be compensated, and who do good job, good work should also get remunerated for it.
But what makes one more fulfilled in when- one's life is to perform, as we say, one's duty, one's dharma, uh, if you like to use it in that, uh, perspective.
You know, as the Bhagavad Gita tells us that one's performance in one dharma is even better than trying to do something else, even, uh, you know, that sounds more laudable.
And so in my heart, in my feeling, I was doing, uh, what was needed, uh, and that is where, uh, I felt that caring at this moment, uh, this was one moment, but of course, we all have similar moments and many that come through in our life under different situations.
That there is a connection, uh, between humanity at the level of what is needed right now, and there was no question in my mind that my presence was needed, uh, my reassurance was needed.
And so this was totally spontaneous, and we know that caring is wired in us as a human species.
You get, uh, feedback from dopamine to increase the desire to do it, and it helps us as a human, uh, species to be together to create all the beautiful things we create, and it has, of course, um level which is beyond just those practical aspects, which is the evolution of life, the meaning of life, the expansion of oneself.
And, you know, all great traditions talk about do unto others what you would want them to do unto you, et cetera.
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