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From Beauty to Absolute Beauty | Plato, Krishna and the Rāsa Dance
Episode 1764
Most people think of God simply as a witness or facilitator of their own romantic affairs. The Bhaktivedanta tradition reveals that the conjugal love…
3 months ago
Entering the Rāsa Dance with the Eye of Love
Episode 1767
Every love story ever told — the Song of Solomon, Layla and Majnun, the Bollywood heroine running toward her true love — is a shadow of this. The des…
3 months, 1 week ago
When the Ego Steps Back | The Existential Sense of Being Blessed
Episode 1766
"The gift of gratitude. In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat." A shift that happens when the ego stops driving. In this episode Raghu…
3 months, 1 week ago
1765: Robert De Niro, Vedanta and the Art of Being Chill
Episode 1759
"Just be calm. When things are going well, be calm. Don't think you're on top of the world. Everybody is dispensable." The Bhagavad-gita calls it sam…
3 months, 1 week ago
Speaking Truth to Power with Love
Episode 1764
On the appearance day of the fascinating Avatar Narasimha — the ferocious half-man, half-lion form of Krishna — Raghunath and Kaustubha explore the l…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Let Go But Don't Give Up | Bhakti, Business and the Art of Surrender
Episode 1763
After twenty years of living in an ashram, Divya Alter opened a restaurant — and her spiritual practice tested new ways and taken to a whole new leve…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
No Pride Allowed | Muhammad Ali on the Hereafter
Episode 1762
"If you've got one ounce of pride, you can't enter the hereafter." From the man who called himself the greatest, that statement lands differently. Al…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dethroning the Ego | The Existential Apology
Episode 1761
An apology can be the turning point on a spiritual path. Through apology the ego is gently dethroned. And strangely, we feel not smaller — but freer.…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Our Challenges Are Here to Reform Us
Episode 1760
What's standing between us and our genuine happiness isn't our circumstances, it's our false pride. Bhakti Yoga has a radical insight into this — and…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Human Potential and The Fire of Knowledge
Episode 1759
A thousand grams of iron is worth about $100. Make it into sewing needles and it's worth $70,000. Turn it into precision laser components and it's wo…
3 months, 4 weeks ago