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Is Self-Care Making Us Less Happy?
Episode 1715
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 opposit…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Karma Doesn't Chase You—It Waits
Episode 1714
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 a…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Can the Angels Lift Raghunath's Spirits on Christmas Eve?
Episode 1713
Christmas Eve hits different when life feels fractured: broken family emotions, grief, longing, and that uneasy feeling that the world keeps taking w…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Look of Love: Seeing Reality Through Bhakti
Episode 1712
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"…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Vrindavan Bhakti Feels So Alive / Discussing Love & Lineage
Episode 1711
In this episode, Kaustubha shares deeply moving stories from his recent Vaishnava Scholars' retreat in Vṛndāvana—revealing why Vrindavan bhakti feels…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Amazon Prime Spirituality
Episode 1710
When devotion becomes a transaction, spiritual life starts to thin out. In this episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and special co-host Pranapr…
10 months ago
Knowing the Price, Missing the Point
Episode 1709
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 …
10 months ago
1708: When Vedānta Becomes Poetry: Kṛṣṇa's Footprints in Vṛndāvana
Episode 1708
Bhakti moves like a river between union and separation, carrying the devotee through remembrance, longing, and love. In this episode, Raghunath and K…
10 months ago
Is a Monk Really Deeper Than You?
Episode 1707
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 episod…
10 months, 1 week ago
Einstein, Bhakti-Yoga & the Delusion of Consciousness
Episode 1706
Einstein called it an "optical delusion of consciousness." The yogis call it forgetfulness of the Self. In this episode, the illusion of separateness…
10 months, 1 week ago