Wisdom of the Sages

Not watching the news doesn't make you ignorant. It might just mean you're careful about what you feed your mind. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha take listener questions from Båstad, Sweden. How much do we really need to know about the world when feeds push the most extreme voices to the top? Can you care deeply without joining a team? How do you become articulate enough to bring people together instead of adding to the noise? And how can bhakti build real humility without feeding the sense that you're never good enough?
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Can a three-year-old be a guru? What about a prostitute, a python or the sunrise? In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha fall into a spontaneous conversation that turns into a rapid-fire Q&A about what a guru really is. What qualifies someone to guide another person's spiritual life: an institution's stamp, scholarship, or something much harder to fake? They explore why the guru is a principle rather than just a person, what happens to your faith when a teacher falls, and what it means to stay steady through life's highs and lows.
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You spent the money, took the time off, and flew halfway around the world. So where's the payoff? In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha, live from Govardhan Hill, sit down with pilgrims just back from the Himalayas: Badrinath, the cave of Vyasa, and the banks of the Ganges. A couple waiting in the snow outside a locked cave picks up a broom. A man who was once married to his work finds the community he never had. A woman who calls herself a lifelong complainer learns to surrender while her mother lies in a hospital back home. These are honest stories of cold, crowds, grief, and the strange joy of a four-hour line, and of what changes when we stop trying to get something out of the spiritual life and start serving it.
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Some people meet Krishna, feel overwhelmed, and run. Years later, they find themselves bathing in the Ganges in the Himalayas. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha go live from Devprayag, where two sacred rivers meet to form the Ganges, to hear from the pilgrims traveling with them: a hardcore kid from Prague, a dentist from Vermont, a self-described skeptic of language, and a young woman who found bhakti through her Uber driver. Each once flirted with Krishna, walked away, and discovered he was still there. What draws a person back to a path they once wandered from?
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He is the origin of every branch of knowledge, and yet he sits down at the feet of a teacher. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha, live from the ISKCON temple in Toronto, follow Krishna and Balarāma as they leave their village life behind and enter a guru's school. Why would the all-knowing seek a teacher at all? And what does his example reveal about humility, gratitude, and the lost art of being a student in an age that takes its teachers for granted?
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.45.20–34
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