Wisdom of the Sages
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Wisdom of the Sages
Truths about life from the timeless wisdom of the Bhakti-yoga tradition - fun, relevant, and deep. Learn about dharma, yoga, bhakti, and how it relates to all the basic questions of life. This show is about how to live your best life, let go of the external distractions, and uncover the spiritual ha...
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1803: Everything Is Nothing | George Harrison and the Krishna Mantra
You need people who have everything to show you that everything is nothing. George Harrison had wealth, fame, mansions, cars — everything material des...
1802: No One Truly Knows Me | The Loneliness Epidemic and Bhakti Vedānta
The majority of Americans say no one truly knows them. Research shows that warm, real connection correlates directly with physical health and peace of...
1801: The World Responds to Krishna's Beauty
Many spiritual traditions lack a personal conception of the Divine. Other's do, but offer little description of what that means. The Bhakti tradition'...
1800: I'm Coming Out!
Episode 1800. To celebrate, Raghunath and Kaustubha open the floor to the Wisdom of the Sages community — sharing the stories of the moment they told...
1799: Give Me a God That Sings and Dances | Was Nietzsche Looking for Krishna?
"I would believe only in a God who knows how to dance." Nietzsche didn't reject God — he rejected a God who was solemn, heavy and joyless. What he wan...
1798: Beauty: Blessing or Curse? | Dostoevsky and the Heart of Man
Studies show that beautiful people earn more, get hired faster, and receive lighter sentences in court. Beauty is power. But Dostoevsky saw the danger...
1797: The Diametric Opposite of Lust | The Rāsa Līlā Completes
How does meditating on Krishna's romantic pastimes conquer lust? Not through repression — through a higher meditation. In classical yoga, the very fir...
1796: Prabhupāda Made New York a Holy Place | ISKCON at 60
Sixty years ago Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived in New York City — not by accident, but by design. He understood that what happens in New York radiates out t...
1795: The Absurdity of Imitation on the Spiritual Path
When we first find the spiritual path, we imitate. It's natural. We put on the costume before we've done the inner work. We adopt the style before we'...
1794: Jñāna & Bhakti: Both Bring Detachment, One Does It Beautifully
"Love separates all things from the soul." Meister Eckhart — fourteenth century Christian mystic, so radical the Pope investigated him for heresy — ar...
1793: The Highest Transcendence Through Passionate Love | The Rāsa Dance Begins
A first reading of the Rāsa Līlā might suggest the gopīs' love is selfish, irresponsible, even unethical. But looking closer one can find the highest...
1792: How Do You Know What Krishna Wants Next? / Q&A Vol. 299
Live from the Wisdom of the Sages annual Tuscany retreat, three questions that go to the heart of the practice. How do we deepen intimacy in bhakti wi...
1791: Parents, Teenagers, Codependency and Mercy / Q&A Vol. 298
Q&A Live from the Wisdom of the Sages annual Tuscany retreat. How does a bhakti practitioner maintain boundaries with a parent whose behavior has been...
1790: How Do You Know You're Advancing? / Q&A Vol. 297
Live from the Wisdom of the Sages annual Tuscany retreat, Raghunath and Kaustubha take questions from their live audience. Four questions: When Krishn...
1789: The Debt Krishna Cannot Repay | Arthur Ashe and the Signature of Real Love
That is the signature of real love — not what you get out of it, but how impossible it feels to ever pay it back. Arthur Ashe, dying, wrote to his you...
1788: The Gopīs' Love | The Complete, Concentrated Form of Yogic Awareness
The yogī sits for years, disciplining the mind, trying to bring scattered awareness to a single point of focus. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubh...
1787: What Are You Exchanging Your Life For? | Thoreau and the Gopī Gīta
Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." With every choice, we're trading the moments of our life...
1786: Our Love and Prayers for the People of Venezuela
This episode begins with a sober heart. A dear member of the Wisdom of the Sages community was caught in the middle of the earthquake that struck Cara...
1785: Direction Will Come to You | Phil Jackson and the Heart of Bhakti
Phil Jackson won eleven championship rings — the most of any coach in NBA history. His secret wasn't more effort. It was less noise. "If you have a cl...
1784: "If Creation Is Play of Brahman, Why all the Suffering?" | Bhakti-Vedānta and Līlā
If creation is God's play, why do we suffer? It's one of the oldest questions in philosophy — and the Srimad Bhagavatam answers it through the Rāsa Lī...
1783: Keeping the Bhakti Romance Alive / Q&A Vol. 296
How do you keep bhakti fresh, sweet and progressive for the rest of your life — fueled by genuine love rather than institutional guilt or a rigid chec...
1782: Nothing Can Remain Hidden | Da Vinci, Manu and Radharani
The wheels of justice grind slow, but fine. The truth eventually rises to the top. "Truth at last cannot be hidden. Nothing is hidden under the sun."...
1781: The Hunger for Beauty | A Signal from the Soul
Every beautiful thing we encounter is a signal pointing somewhere. Our hunger for beauty isn't random — it can be read as a signal. In this episode Ra...
1780: Bhakti's Sacred Longing | In Separation, the Beloved Is Found Everywhere
How can longing be ecstasy? How can absence be the deepest form of presence? This is one of the great mysteries of love — and bhakti yoga illuminates...
1779: Divine Madness | The Samādhi of the Gopīs
What looks like madness from the outside is the whole goal of yoga from the inside. Jacopone da Todi — Crazy Jim from Todi — found that every door of...
1778: No Monopoly on God | Exclusivism and the God Who Withdraws
The moment you think your group owns God is the moment He begins to slip away.understood this. When Bill Wilson, founder of AA and a devout Christian,...
1777: Nothing Compares 2 U | The Gopīs' Message of Surrender
William James — the father of American psychology — spent years studying mystical and religious experiences across every tradition. What he found surp...
1776: Authority Descends from the Author | The Gopīs Reveal the Highest Dharma
The Vedic tradition lays out dharma with remarkable precision — the duties of a wife, a husband, a parent, a child, a citizen. The gopīs of Vrindavan...
1775: When Krishna Closes One Door He Opens Another / Q&A Vol. 295
Sometimes the thing that feels like a loss turns out to be the setup for something far better. In this special retreat Q&A from Super Soul Farm, Raghu...
1774: What is a Pure Devotee? / Q&A Vol. 294
Recorded live at the Wisdom of the Sages retreat at SuperSoul Farm, this Q&A episode opens with a question that sits at the heart of bhakti — what doe...
1773: Let Your FOMO Be for the Divine | Saint Augustine and the Gopīs
There is a restlessness in the human heart that nothing in this world can satisfy. Saint Augustine called it the clue to our true nature — we were mad...
1772: Everyone Worships Something | Free Will and the Object of Our Affection
Everyone worships something. The rock star, the ideology, the bottle of wine, the beautiful person across the room. Dostoevsky identified it as an inc...
1771: The Weakness of Willpower & The Power of Attention
Willpower is fundamentally the wrong tool for inner transformation. French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil argued that attention — not discipline o...
1770: The Mind of the Buddha, The Mind of the Gopī
Buddhism and Bhaktivedanta share a lot of common ground. Both embrace the same radical insight — that the mind is the architect of our experience, and...
1769: The Bhaktivedanta Path of Renunciation
Life is kind of empty if there is not something so meaningful and beautiful that we feel a calling to give everything out of love. We spend our lives...
1768: From Beauty to Absolute Beauty | Plato, Krishna and the Rāsa Dance
Most people think of God simply as a witness or facilitator of their own romantic affairs. The Bhaktivedanta tradition reveals that the conjugal love...
1767: Entering the Rāsa Dance with the Eye of Love
Every love story ever told — the Song of Solomon, Layla and Majnun, the Bollywood heroine running toward her true love — is a shadow of this. The desi...
1766: When the Ego Steps Back | The Existential Sense of Being Blessed
"The gift of gratitude. In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat." A shift that happens when the ego stops driving. In this episode Raghun...
1765: Robert De Niro, Vedanta and the Art of Being Chill
"Just be calm. When things are going well, be calm. Don't think you're on top of the world. Everybody is dispensable." The Bhagavad-gita calls it sama...
1764: Speaking Truth to Power with Love
On the appearance day of the fascinating Avatar Narasimha — the ferocious half-man, half-lion form of Krishna — Raghunath and Kaustubha explore the li...