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If You Don't See God in All, You Won't See God at All | Beyond Religious Ritual
Episode 1833
You can attend every service, perform every ritual perfectly, but if you're unkind to the people around you, then you've missed God entirely. In this…
19 hours ago
Adapting Ancient Wisdom Without Losing It / Q&A Vol. 302
Episode 1832
How does an ancient wisdom tradition survive for thousands of years? It needs teachers who hand it down unchanged, and yet each generation has to hea…
2 days, 13 hours ago
Living Bhakti Among People Who Don't Share It / Q&A Vol. 301
Episode 1831
There's a sticky note in Ashley's refrigerator that reads "meat section." She's the only devotee in her home, and between a loving family that doesn'…
3 days, 11 hours ago
Bhakti Doesn't Grow in a Hard Heart / Q&A Vol. 300
Episode 1830
Someone on the street asks you for money, and you're fairly sure where it will go, and it's not good. Can walking past be compassion, or is it quietl…
4 days, 12 hours ago
A Field Guide to Your Inner Demons | Bhaktivinoda Thakur Decodes Krishna's Pastimes
Episode 1829
In the 19th century, British colonial scholars dismissed the pastimes of Krishna as primitive and immoral, and a generation of educated Indians began…
6 days, 16 hours ago
We Never Learned the Power of Our Thoughts | You Become What You Think About
Episode 1828
Be good. Behave. Behave yourself. Growing up, most of us heard plenty about our actions and almost nothing about the thoughts that produce them. In t…
1 week ago
The Emptiness of Peace and the Fullness of Love | Meditation Beyond Stillness
Episode 1827
Most of us long for a quiet mind. But what fills it once the noise is gone? On a solo bike ride across upstate New York, Raghunath finds that solitud…
1 week, 6 days ago
Why the Comment Thread Is Killing Your Soul | Speaking Truth to Power
Episode 1826
When something is wrong and we say nothing, our own inner light begins to fade. But speaking up only heals when it comes from a place of love. Raghun…
2 weeks ago
Our Labels Are Warping Our Vision | The Many Ways We Respond to Krishna
Episode 1825
I'm a man. I'm a woman. I'm American. I'm this, I'm that. Every label we carry colors how we see the world, ourselves and God. Yoga starts from a bol…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
You're Not in Control | The Placebo Illusion and the Bhakti Reality
Episode 1824
Our sense of security is based on illusion — confirmed by both modern science and the sages of the Bhakti Yoga tradition. A landmark psychiatric stud…
2 weeks, 6 days ago