Wisdom of the Sages

Karma isn't about guilt—it's about growth. Drawing from a quote by Keanu Reeves and the timeless wisdom of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, this episode explores how understanding karma restores agency, dissolves victimhood, and quietly cultivates compassion. Raghunath and Kaustubha clarify why karmic law isn't meant to judge who's "up" or "down," but to help us respond more wisely, act more gently, and move through the world with awareness. When responsibility is understood properly, life stops feeling random—and starts feeling meaningful.
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This episode begins with the idea that pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you—and uses it as a doorway into bhakti: not just emptying the mind, but making room for something sacred to actually live within us. Raghunath and Kaustubha reflect on "reentry" after pilgrimage, why holy places and holy people rekindle faith, and how steady practice becomes a shelter when the inspiration fades.
Then the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam paints Vrindavan: summer that feels like spring, forest beauty, childlike play, and the sudden intrusion of danger as Pralambāsura appears disguised among the cowherd boys. What could feel like a simple story is revealed as something deeper—how love intensifies through contrast, how devotion becomes vivid through remembrance, and how Balarāma protects the joy of Vraja with swift, decisive strength.
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The meaning we find in scripture often reveals more about our motive than the text itself. This episode explores the uncomfortable truth: that we don't just read scripture—we often recruit it. Nearly any philosophy can be bent in the direction we're already leaning. Raghunath and Kaustubha examine how two people can read the same teaching and walk away with completely opposite conclusions, why real growth begins with examining our motives rather than merely quoting sources, the difference between being transformed by sacred texts and being justified by them, and how compassion may be the clearest measure of whether a teaching has truly been understood.
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This episode is a deep dive into death, vulnerability, and the strange grace that appears when we stop running and start facing reality with the holy name on our lips. A near-death moment in Māyāpur cracks open one of life's most carefully avoided truths: everything we refuse to face quietly takes control from the shadows. In this episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore Carl Jung's piercing insight—"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate"—and why bhakti is anything but spiritual bypassing.
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A striking model of surrender emerges in this episode: accepting both mercy and correction as meaningful, purposeful, and transformative.
Spoken live from Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, this conversation unfolds around a simple Christian devotional line—"I do not know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow"—and follows it into much deeper bhakti territory. Rather than offering certainty or comfort, the discussion explores what it actually means to trust God when outcomes are unclear and control quietly slips away.
Drawing from pilgrimage moments in Navadvīpa, immersive kīrtan, and a revealing section of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the episode turns to Kāliya, the serpent whose suffering leads not to resentment but to humility and clarity. His prayer becomes a mirror for our own lives, reframing adversity not as punishment, but as a precise and personal form of guidance.
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