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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1722 epizód
1716: Bhakti Changed My Life: The 6-Year Anniversary Show
Six years ago we hit "record" with shaky internet and big dreams—then a lucky break, and a global lockdown helped turn Wisdom of the Sages into a dail...
1715: Is Self-Care Making Us Less Happy?
Self-care culture tells us to treat ourselves, embrace our flaws, and obsess over our inner world—but the research on happiness points in the opposite...
1714: Karma Doesn't Chase You—It Waits
A French poet once observed that we often meet our destiny on the very road we take to avoid it—and history seems to agree. Using Napoleon's failed at...
1713: Can the Angels Lift Raghunath's Spirits on Christmas Eve?
Christmas Eve hits different when life feels fractured: broken family emotions, grief, longing, and that uneasy feeling that the world keeps taking wh...
1712: The Look of Love: Seeing Reality Through Bhakti
Bhakti-yoga doesn't ask us to escape the world—it shows us how to set it right by placing love at the center. This episode begins with a "zoomed-out"...
1711: Why Vrindavan Bhakti Feels So Alive / Discussing Love & Lineage
In this episode, Kaustubha shares deeply moving stories from his recent Vaishnava Scholars' retreat in Vṛndāvana—revealing why Vrindavan bhakti feels...
1710: Amazon Prime Spirituality
When devotion becomes a transaction, spiritual life starts to thin out. In this episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and special co-host Pranapri...
1709: Knowing the Price, Missing the Point
Netflix has a price, but what's the cost of what it does to you? Raghunath and Kaustubha riff on Oscar Wilde's brutal truth—people know the price of e...
1708: When Vedānta Becomes Poetry: Kṛṣṇa's Footprints in Vṛndāvana
Bhakti moves like a river between union and separation, carrying the devotee through remembrance, longing, and love. In this episode, Raghunath and Ka...
1707: Is a Monk Really Deeper Than You?
Is a monk living in a temple necessarily deeper than someone living an ordinary life in the world—or could it be the other way around? In this episode...
1706: Einstein, Bhakti-Yoga & the Delusion of Consciousness
Einstein called it an "optical delusion of consciousness." The yogis call it forgetfulness of the Self. In this episode, the illusion of separateness...
1705: Inferiority & the Comparison Trap / Q&A Vol. 292
In this deeply personal Q&A Volume 292, Raghunath and Kaustubha respond to a listener struggling with inferiority, comparison, trauma, and the fear of...
1704: Doing the Inner Work vs Doing Shrooms
Psychedelics can shoot you to the summit, but they can't make you a mountain climber. You may get a glimpse of the view, but the glimpse doesn't chang...
1703: Real Evil Is Boring, Real Good Is Wild | Why Darkness Fails and Bhakti Thrives
Simone Weil's razor-sharp insight cracks open this episode: we glamorize imaginary evil and underestimate how powerful real goodness actually is. Ragh...
1702: Living in a World That's Pulsing With Magic
Wonders flood our lives every moment, yet we sleepwalk past them—missing the hints pointing us toward their Source. In this episode, Raghunath and Kau...
1701: A Cosmic Reality Check: The Truth Behind Our Illusion of Control
Carl Sagan's apple-pie insight becomes a launchpad for a sweeping journey from kitchens to cosmos, as Raghunath and Kaustubha explore why nothing we "...
1700: Measuring the Universe, Missing the Immeasurable
The limits of material analysis end long before the limits of the Absolute. In this landmark episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore Lord Brahma's pr...
1699: Gratitude: A Full-On Rebellion Against Illusion
Gratitude isn't feel-good fluff—it's a full-on rebellion against illusion. In this episode, Raghunath and Mara weave together Charles Dickens, modern...
1698: When the Universe Pops Your Ego Bubble
Life has a way of popping our ego bubble exactly when we need it most. In this episode, Raghunath and Mera explore the mercy hidden inside humiliation...
1697: Love They Can't Pay Back: Bhakti, Service & Real Freedom
Real spirituality begins the moment you do something for someone who can never repay you. In this solo episode, Raghunath and co-host Prana Priya take...
1696: Racism, Rage and a Spiritual Way Forward / Q&A Vol. 291
Rage at a racist, a double middle-finger "protest," and a bhakti yogi wondering, "Did I actually help… or just lose it?" From there, this episode dive...
1695: Grand Theft Butter: Reincarnation, Gillian Anderson & the Gita
Depth and play intertwine as Raghunath and Kaustubha riff on Gillian Anderson's reincarnation quote, Krishna's "Grand Theft Butter" pastims in vrindav...
1694: Stunned by the Infinite: When the Ego Meets Its Match
Nature, humility, and spiritual vision can still the spinning of the mind and burn away the karmic illusion that we're the center of it all. From redw...
1693: Bhakti for Beginners: Doing It Right & Keeping It Real / Q&A Vol. 290
Recorded live in Jaipur, this Q&A episode dives into real beginner questions on the path of bhakti—with Raghunath and Kaustubha responding with both i...
1692: The Next Step in Bhakti: Finding Your Teacher / Q&A Vol. 289
From the sacred city of Jaipur, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore what it means to take the next step in Bhakti—moving from faith to steady practice and...
1691: Soft Heart, Steady Mind: Bhakti Yoga Wisdom / Q&A Vol. 288
From the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, this pilgrim Q&A with Raghunath and Kaustubha explores how to respond to visible suffering without emotional...
1690: Carrying the Holy Place in Your Heart / Q&A, Vol. 287
Live from Devprayag, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how to perceive Paramātmā—the Supersoul within—and how Bhakti transforms the mind's shadows of re...
1689: A Living Universe, Not a Machine: The Cost of Denying Personhood
Much of modern science, as well as impersonalist Vedānta, drains the universe of relationship—one by reducing consciousness to brain chemistry, the ot...
1688: Einstein Meets the Bhagavad Gītā: Yogic Perception Beyond the Intellect
When cramming facts hits a ceiling, yogic practice opens the window. In this conversation, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how Einstein's relativity a...
1687: Diwali & the Art of Outgrowing Desire
Diwali is the perfect moment to upgrade your relationship with desire. In this episode, we contrast the material formula—"if the world gives me what I...
1686: From Bypass to Bhakti: 12-Step Honesty with Jiva G
When devotion turns into performance, honesty becomes the new yoga. In this powerful conversation with Jiva G, Raghunath explores how 12-Step recovery...
1685: Do I Have Glowworms Living in My Heart? / Idols Stop Dazzling as Devotion Dawns
Do I Have Glowworms Living in My Heart? / Idols Stop Dazzling as Devotion Dawns
When the real sun of devotion rises, all the little stars we onc...
1684: Fooling Mother Nature? Why Material Solutions Backfire
When we try to "fix" life, sometimes it only breaks further. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha examine how our material solutions—cars, technol...
1683: The Answer Is Always Love: Understanding Krishna’s Ways / Q&A Vol. 286
The Answer Is Always Love: Understanding Krishna's Ways / Q&A Vol. 286
Bhakti doesn't grow on demand—it unfolds like nature itself: slow...
1682: You Can’t Hurry Love: How Bhakti Matures / Q&A Volume 285
You Can't Hurry Love: How Bhakti Matures
It's easy to look spiritual — chant loud, dress the part, quote Sanskrit — but bhakti gets real when o...
1681: Is That God’s Voice, or Just My Mind Again? / Q&A Volume 284
Ever wonder if that "inner voice" you hear during prayer is God in your heart—or just your mind doing impressions again? In this live Q&A from Super S...
1680: I Came to Die, Learned to Live: A Bhakti Breakthrough
She boarded a flight to India to learn how to die—and found the wisdom to live. Laurel's journey—from childhood loss and addiction to a stage-4 cancer...
1679: Marcus Aurelius Meets Krishna Under the Autumn Full Moon
What happens when the Stoic emperor of self-control meets the divine cowherd of boundless love? From Brahmā's cosmic prank to the gopīs' fearless devo...
1678: Many Miles to Settle the Mind
It took 40, then 25, then 30 miles before the mind finally stopped screaming and started praying. Fresh off a solo bike ride through the Adirondacks,...
1677: Softening the Heart: Bhakti Yoga & the Power of Emotion
The Bhagavad-gītā is more than philosophy—it's full of feeling. Arjuna's grief and Krishna's compassion remind us that yoga is not about suppressing e...