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Let Your FOMO Be for the Divine | Saint Augustine and the Gopīs
Episode 1773
There is a restlessness in the human heart that nothing in this world can satisfy. Saint Augustine called it the clue to our true nature — we were ma…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Everyone Worships Something | Free Will and the Object of Our Affection
Episode 1772
Everyone worships something. The rock star, the ideology, the bottle of wine, the beautiful person across the room. Dostoevsky identified it as an in…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Weakness of Willpower & The Power of Attention
Episode 1771
Willpower is fundamentally the wrong tool for inner transformation. French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil argued that attention — not discipline …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Mind of the Buddha, The Mind of the Gopī
Buddhism and Bhaktivedanta share a lot of common ground. Both embrace the same radical insight — that the mind is the architect of our experience, an…
5 months ago
Answer the Call of the Heart | The Bhaktivedanta Path of Renunciation
Episode 1769
Life is kind of empty if there is not something so meaningful and beautiful that we feel a calling to give everything out of love. We spend our lives…
5 months ago
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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 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…
5 months, 2 weeks ago