pure, naked spiritual encounter vs designer label spiritual fads / the real stumbling block to Bhakti is hypocrisy / dealing with the Western triggers to Eastern thought / understanding Vedic hierarchies / respect is both functional and fundamental / why is it better to do your own duty imperfectly, than another's perfectly? / the world is in a state of emergency - we need more Brahmanas SB:7.11.15-17 *********************************************************************************** LOVE THE PO...
Jul 03, 2024•58 min•Ep. 1354
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...and then we return home / the quality of our questions determines the quality of our lives / when we become capable of loving we return home / are the ancient ethical codes relevant to us today? / wouldn't it be better if our leaders were trained in leadership? / all ethics and codes are meant to bring you to devotion / the Vedic solution to toxic masculinity / the spiritual leaders are meant to direct the business leaders in caring fo...
Jul 02, 2024•55 min•Ep. 1353
How to share the wisdom of Bhakti with someone who is afraid of death? / How to process the experience of seeing people leave the path of Bhakti? **************************************************** ▶ LOVE THE PODCAST? -- BECOME A SUPPORTER: https://www.wisdomofthesages.com/ ▶ WATCH ON YOUTUBE:  https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages ▶ LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 ▶ CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 ▶ CONNECT...
Jun 29, 2024•57 min•Ep. 1352
Consciousness has building blocks? OK, then go ahead and build us some / Why not admit that the Bhagavad-gita's presentation on consciousness still holds up? / you can't observe spirit with material instruments / consciousness is the irreducible symptom of spirtiual energy / originally it wasn't a "caste system", it was a code of ethics and leadership training / want the power and fame? You can be number 2. Wanna be number one? You've gotta give up everything. ***********************************...
Jun 28, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1351
The Surgeon General calls for warning labels on social media platforms / social media scrolling is like injecting stupidity straight into our veins / unsubscribe, unfollow turn it off and go outside / sattva doesn't sell anymore / Mara is reprograming Raghu's phone / until we regulate our senses we're just polished animals / remaining silent and grave / contemplate whether one is the body or the soul / Give in charity if you wanna be human / contemplate that every one is part of god / hearing ab...
Jun 27, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1350
the pristine consciousness of the sage Narada / the best of the A list sages / 2 ways in which Krishna is the root of all dharma / the formula for satisfying the soul / Don't end up majoring in minor things / let's not water down the meaning of ahimsa / how rendering service to saintly persons saved Raghunath & Kaustubha / we've been living like kids in candy stores with credit cards SB 7.11.1-10 Ayurveda Mama: A Comprehensive Guide to Preparing for Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum https://a...
Jun 26, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1349
Willow's "Symptom of Life" is bringing Vedic contemplation into Pop culture / The Bhagavad-gita's art of work - give your full effort, and be resigned to destiny / just hear Krishna's pastimes to understand the highest absolute truth / We've got everything- breathwork, shape shifting, exercise, cooking, wisdom, conspiracy theories… / pushing and peeling myself out of my disguise / pushing and peeling the layers that cover my mind / pain as the prompt to change / all you know has vanished again /...
Jun 25, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1348
What does it mean to belong to Radha & Krishna? / Questions around feasting and fasting in Bhakti-yoga ▶️ LOVE THE PODCAST? -- BECOME A SUPPORTER: https://www.wisdomofthesages.com/ ▶️ WATCH ON YOUTUBE:  https://youtube.com/@wisdomofthesages ▶️ LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 ▶️ CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 ▶️ CONNECT: //Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wisdom_of_the_sages // https://www.wisdomofthe...
Jun 22, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1347
astrology: mature vs superficial applications / Srimad Bhagavatam is the key to understanding all of the Vedic sacred texts / Krishna is the person behind the spiritual energy / Krishna is beyond the demigods / Shiva and the Devas saved by Krishna / The unseen power of providence can turn our agenda upside down / bypassing the logical malfunction that reality must be according to our liking / we are tiny, and dependent, but we also have a type of unlimited power SB 7.10.50-64 *******************...
Jun 20, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1346
on friendship / on forgiveness / on aging / on prayer / on pain / on death ********************************************************************************* LOVE THE SHOW? WE ARE A COMMUNITY SUPPORTED PODCAST AND WE'D LOVE YOUR SUPPORT! Visit https://www.wisdomofthesages.com/ WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/wisdomofthesages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 CONNECT O...
Jun 17, 2024•54 min•Ep. 1345
How to understand the fate of one who has taken their own life? / How to help our children become God conscious? / Is there a place for hallucinogens in Bhakti? ************************************************************* LOVE THE PODCAST? -- WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO BECOME A SUPPORTER: Visit www.wisdomofthesages.com to see how to sign up! WATCH ON YOUTUBE: -- https://youtube.com/@wisdomofthesages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: h...
Jun 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 1344
Jun 15, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1343
Inferring the Divine string holding everything together / 3 levels of the absolute truth / Krishna is the most attentive friend / Krishna's not our stepping stone / We are individual, eternal sparks of the divine / Sacrifice means understanding we are not the center / Krishna is the unconditional love we're looking for SB 7.10.48-49
Jun 13, 2024•57 min•Ep. 1342
the ability to ask a question of great consequence is a power laying dormant within us / ask the BIG questions / in order to receive rewarding answers, what is important for the questioner? / marrying our purpose / enjoyment, renunciation or dedication? / what is the lesson? - an aphorism to shift from negative to positive thinking / our power is always in the present moment / full attention
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 1341
How can we transcend karma? / How should someone on a spiritual path react when todl they are being passive aggressive? / Why does Krishan appeal to Arjuna on a materialistic level in the Bhagavad-gita?
Jun 09, 2024•53 min•Ep. 1340
Bhrigupad Das (Mans Broo) is a lecturer in Religious Studies at Abo Akademi University. He gained his PhD in 2003 with a thesis on the guru in Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
Jun 08, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1339
What if this isn't THE reality? / Leo Tolstoy - "Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real life of God." / video games are double illusion / our desire for movies, VR, and fantasy reveal that illusion doesn't satisfy - we need to go back to reality / even the evil king Sishupala has a back story / karma - acknowledging our own responsibility in our suffering helps us heal and cultivates virtue / how to develop a spiri...
Jun 07, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1338
a traditional yogi's appreciation of Bhakti in the West / the irony of how the claim of cultural appropriation can play into the hands of the oppressors / reincarnation in Johnathon Livingston Seagull / the fallacy of original sin / the fallacy of eternal damnation / the logical strength of reincarnation / the fallacy of reunion in heaven / Raghunath brings the Dhammapada to His Christian Club / contemplate and feel the distinction between your self, mind and body / the full evolution is love / ...
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1337
"In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing your self." — Martin Luther King Jr. / the worst thing you can do for your spiritual life / in the healthy state of awareness, Krishna's name makes us cry / resentment and anger shrivels us up / cultivating gratitude - we can't control other people, but we can control our attitudes / best to leave murders and psychopaths for professionals / shifting from the vision of bodily differences to spiritual commonality / except for the uncontro...
Jun 05, 2024•57 min•Ep. 1336
George Harrison on the only reason we're on this planet / we live in a virtual reality governed by the law of karma / breaking the addiction to external pleasures through addiction to internal experience / stay in the kirtan and keep the vibe high / when Raghu and Kaustubha will be like when they get old / Krishna gets personally involved in the karmic destiny of His devotees / tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam - do that as an offering to Me / Bhakti relieves the fever of anxiety / Guru nishta can change ...
Jun 04, 2024•58 min•Ep. 1335
"Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty." - Epictetus / if you sincerely want Truth, that's god consciousness / duty drags you back on track / western vs eastern attitudes toward duty / Too much choice makes a person miserable / duty makes the mind more peaceful / duty is prescribed specifically according to one's mindset / the days of the employer / we're indebted to our forefathers, the great sages, human society, etc. / one connected with the ...
Jun 03, 2024•55 min•Ep. 1334
I want to be initiated into the path of Bhakti but I struggle to chant the required 16 rounds per day, so I feel guilty - can you please share some advice? / How can I keep myself and my daughter on the path of Bhakti when we live far away from other devotees? / Can you explain the analogy from Srimad Bhagavatam - that when one's face is decorated, the reflection of one's face in a mirror is also decorated? Check out our new website at www.wisdomofthesages.com...
Jun 01, 2024•54 min•Ep. 1333
It does not matter that you are in the material world - so long as you stay connected through hearing spiritual content / St. Francis's counterintuitive formula for life / the courage to lead a spiritual life / St. Francis gets naked / your net worth is your spirit to contribute / by bringing your awareness to the purity of a devotee's love, our own awareness is purified / decorating oneself with the qualities of patience, tolerance, and kindness, etc. / devotees purify all places SB 7.10.13-22...
May 31, 2024•54 min•Ep. 1332
Thomas Merton on climbing the ladder of success / analyze what your win is before you start the hustle / in a generation or two we will be forgotten / the Bhakti-yogi's goal is a pure, soft heart / accepting that we are both very close and very far from the goal / "As soon as we have material desires, we lose our spiritual identity." - Bhaktivedanta Swami / even as we live in the material world, by regularly hearing the sacred texts, our hearts and minds remain absorbed in spirit SB 7.10.8-12...
May 30, 2024•55 min•Ep. 1331
Can there be competition on the spiritual platform? / can there be fear on the spiritual platform? / "Your problem is that you are not afraid enough of maya" A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami / by contemplating the objects of the senses ……. / 2 types of perfected Bhakti Yogis - the eternally perfect and those who achieve perfection through practice / "love" desiring material benefit in exchange for their devotional service is no better than a merchant / a "master" who bestows benedictions motivated by a ...
May 29, 2024•55 min•Ep. 1330
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran / if external beauty is our currency, the market is gonna crash / for the Bhakti-yogi - the primary concern is the quality of their own heart / somehow, winning the lottery doesn't buy happiness / one can reframe life's struggle and pain as a purification of the heart / if we lean into Bhakti (and focused on the internal work) we could solve the world's problems / religion doesn't cause war - but the superficial underst...
May 28, 2024•54 min•Ep. 1329
It's not ALL about the journey - there is a goal to yoga / OM is the bow; the self is the arrow; God is said to the target / Marcus Aurelius on having a purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward / when Raghu received the pretentious "Do less" instruction / Bhagavad-gita showed how to focus all of your worldly responsibilities as part of your spiritual goal / the hodgepodge lodge of spirituality / the relative value of silence, vows, study, austerities, duties, mantras, etc. / spiritual ...
May 27, 2024•52 min•Ep. 1328
Where does desire reside, in the mind or in the self? / Is everything Krishna's grace, or are there pockets of free will where His Grace doesn't penetrate? / How to give life advice to someone who is resistant? / How to keep an elevated mind when experiencing chronic pain? / How to make my life an offering?
May 26, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 1327
How can I learn tolerance and not get upset with people? / What should I keep in mind when raising my children? / How to explain my Bhakti practice to people who don't like the fact that I have changed?
May 25, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1326
"Caught in that sensual music all neglect, Monuments of unageing intellect." – William Butler Yeats / all the great wisdom traditions were able to recognize the inability for sense gratification to deliver happiness / the devotee has one optimistic eye and one pessimistic eye / your senses have their own agenda for you / Prahlad doesn't want to be delivered alone / sex desire is like an itch - the more you scratch it the more it itches SB 7.9.40-45
May 24, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1325
