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 happiness that lies within the heart as the true nature of the soul. Raghunath and Kaustubha's connection goes back to their teens in the New York Hardcore Punk Scene of the early 80s, through serving together as Bhakti-yogi monks in the 90's, to sharing their experiences in the world of yoga in the 21st century.
Episodes
Raghunath and Kaustubha discuss Srimad Bhagavatam 4th Canto Chapter 25 and the need to learn to surf (adapt to the constantly changing waves of life).
Raghunath & Kaustubha discuss Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 24, and how our conception of attraction and repulsion exist entirely in the mind, and how yogis transcend the fluctuations of the mind.
Raghunath & Kaustubha discuss how true happiness is an internal experience, as the nature of the soul is spiritual happiness, and when we seek happiness through externals we enter into a disappointing competition for limited resources.
An introduction to the essential bhakti-yoga text Srimad Bhagavatam highlighting how to transform our lives through the hearing and contemplation of timeless yoga wisdom.
The ancient texts of yoga wisdom share that, in one sense, The world we live in is an illusion or like a dream. When we are having a bad or fearful dream, there is no point in trying to correct our situation within the dream. Rather the solution is to wake up! The wisdom of the sages of the Srimad Bhagavatam is the way to do it. (covers Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1-1.1.3)
"Yoga is a practice which empowers one to overcome the obstacle of the mind, for the purpose of the self experiencing it's own true nature."
The sages of the Srimad Bhagavatam place their questions to the learned and saintly Suta Goswami, including how the people of our difficult age can find atma suprasidati, complete satisfaction of the self. (covers Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.4-1.1.11)
Raghunath Cappo & Kaustubha Das discuss transcendental sound, true happiness as an internal experience, the material world as a warped reflection, expanding the space between stimulus and response through sattvic yoga lifestyle, and Raghu's fat head. (Covers Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.12-1.1.19)
Raghunath & Kaustubha discuss how the mind is going to get addicted to something - so choose the addictions that lead to getting grounded, connected, and liberated, through Bhakti Yoga. Plus the appearance of the young sage Sukadeva Goswami the six symptoms of the soul found in all life (humans, animals and plants), equality and difference in human beings, and how life is a series of questions and answers but certain questions can ...
Raghunath & Kaustubha discuss the answer to the big question by the sages, "How can people find complete satisfaction of the self?" The answer is pure devotion. They also discuss that human life is meant for inquiry into the absolute truth, that knowledge and detachment come automatically with bhakti, that much of the yoga (asana) in the West, as well as America in general, could benefit from some sattva guna, the slippery slope in...
Discussion regarding curing abnormal tendencies towards Illusion through hearing truth, genuine radical responsibility, the real blessings on the yoga path, the Paramatama, the cleansing of the heart step by step thorough Bhakti Yoga beginning with faith and ending in Divine love, on the spiritual level the form is less important than the substance, getting connected to the electric charge of spiritual power, doing kirtan in public...
The material world is fools gold / willingly limiting oneself / knowledge is born of sattva / Loosening the knot in the heart which forces us to identify with the body / bring the unsteady mind back under the control of the self / the richness of Indian-Vedic Culture / beauty is skin deep / what is Vishnu tattva / Vishnu is the soul of the universe
My kids should change! / harmonizing the ego with the self through karma-yoga / different types of liberation / every object is radiating the influence of one of the three gunas (modes of nature) / passion sandwich - keeping the mornings and evenings sattvic / connect with Laxmi or Radha - #dontsacrificegoats and other topics with Raghunath Cappo and Kaustubha Das
as long as I’m complaining I’ll never be able to go within / what good is philosophy if it has no practical application? / tolerance is a key to meditation - big deal if you can do lotus / what is real surrender / #radicalresponsability / don’t go wide, go deep / don’t try to see God - but act in such a way where God will see you / Raghunath, why are you yelling at God? / the entire yoga system can be seen as a way of purifying our...
purusha & prakriti / I’m a tiny speck but I have worth through dharma / the bad odor of religion / reading regularly chips away at our bad thinking / the arrogance of thinking there is nothing beyond us / seeing the divine though nature / creation stories - where do we place our faith / when we approach the Bhagavatam with a pure motive Krishna captures our heart / the Supersoul is giving advice within / heaven and hell on earth / ...
spiritual life means facing one’s own mortality / we don’t own nothin / cutting away false identities / if I start from the false premise that I am my body then all my ideas for happiness, groundedness, peace, fun and deep-rooted pleasure are actually all askew / we call each other prabhu (master) / angels, ouija boards, magic 8 balls, and Paramanda's exorcism / the yuga cycles are always turning / Krishna’s just having fun loving...
Raghunath & Kaustubha takes questions in this episode / Is Kaustubha a prepper? / drawing essential elements from yoga culture and applying them in the circumstances we live in now / Bhakti renaissances through history / Can you reach pure Bhakti following Lord Jesus? / esoteric revelations for meditation in the Srimad Bhagavatam / the key to enter spirituality is deep humility / it’s not the uniform that makes one spiritual, but i...
Samkhya philosophy - braking down the world’s material ingredients / the churning of the milk ocean / faith comes in small increments / the good in bad within us - which will win? / All that there is within the universe to satisfy one’s senses cannot satisfy a person whose senses are uncontrolled / the glories of Mother Ganga / the comic book p...
Who is Radhanath Swami? / the process of yoga is to purity the heart - it’s not always easy - it takes determination and patience / as we churn our hearts, so many things will come out - don’t be afraid, attached or distracted / reversals open doors to great benedictions / the material nature brings out the conflict in us / the greatest spiritual progress comes when through the sincerity of our will, God is pleased / the greatest w...
Raghu's crash and how he reconnected with Radhanath Swami / further mystical stories from Raghu's life / It's all real! / Kaustaubha defeats mundane scholars with a Beatles analogy / in spiritual life it's not you got it's what you do with what you've got / the story of Jatayu from Ramayana/ the story of the squirrels from Ramayana
our Indian wedding / connection on the spiritual level / nihilism / in Bhakti-yoga we can be both a monk and an activist / the sacredness of all life / which came first (from the prajapatis) - the chicken or the egg? / sweet baby Krishna is the source of all the avatars / answering the calling in the heart / insights arise in a peaceful, even mind / Thoreau & Emerson appreciate the Bhagavad-gita / bathing our minds in the morning &...
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