Wisdom of the Sages
Truths about life from the timeless wisdom of the Bhakti-yoga tradition - fun, relevant, and deep. Learn about dharma, yoga, bhakti, and how it relates to all the basic questions of life. This show is about how to live your best life, let go of the external distractions, and uncover the spiritual happiness that lies within the heart as the true nature of the soul.
Raghunath and Kaustubha's connection goes back to their teens in the New York Hardcore Punk Scene of the early 80s, through serving together as Bhakti-yogi monks in the 90's, to sharing their experiences in the world of yoga in the 21st century.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 1667
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
1025: Our Whole Lives Are Just Blips in Time
spiritual knowledge well applied facilitates social justice (rather than bypassing / seeing the world as illusion (spiritual perspective) grants relief from suffering / the world’s a mess - water the…
1024: Don't Just Think You're Not Your Body, Know It!
“Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine conditi…
1023: Ya Don’t “Create” Clean Water, Ya Stop Polluting it
to ask is to break the spell / "Blind belief and passive consumption can be broken through the simple act of asking questions." - Neil Postman / the yoga culture’s acclaim for thoughtful questioning…
1022: Q & A Volume 162
Family therapist/Bhakti-yogini Dhanya Rico joins Wisdom of the Sages to address some difficult questions.
• How to deal with a difficult person who is permanently in your life? • In dealing with s…
1021: Confronting the Birth to Death Time-lapse
never sniff glue! / the compelling, confronting, fascinating birth to death time-lapse diorama / we have to shift our perception in order to understand what we are doing here / the most amazing thing…
1020: Learning to Ignore the Mind
anxiety for your children never ends / the mind can be an unruly, unappeasable 5 year old / sometimes the best option is to ignore the mind / the mind and senses are meant to work for us, not the oth…
1019: The Variables That Generate Our Unique Blend of Thoughts
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” Oscar Wilde / we’re zeros desperately searching for 1 / the variables that generate our unique blend o…
1018: Hookup Apps & the Negative Thought Loops
we have 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, 80% are negative, 95% are repetitive / Bhagavatam predicted Kali-yuga minds would be always disturbed - the National Science Foundation confirms it / techno…
1017: This World is a Metaphysical Costume Party
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” - John Naisbitt / do we have the cognitive ability to distill information into wisdom? / we’re not asking all the most important questions …
1016: Q & A Volume 161
Why is there conflicting information about the practices and regulations in Bhakti-yoga? / How to root out “false Bhakti” in oneself?
1015: Parallels in Modern & Vedic Leadership – Interview with Bhuta Bhavana Das
Bhuta Bhavana Das (Ed Anobah) graduated in Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics and is currently responsible to training 47,000 leaders in a global financial organization. He’s …
1014: The Corrupted Files Within the Mind
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” Marcus Aurelius / “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in m…
1013: Anne Frank’s Spiritual Insight
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank / this world moves in cycles / the remedy for hate is spiritual insight / material awareness is like a drea…
1012: Sometimes All We Need is a Different Perspective
release the ego and sing with the devotees / functional identity vs fundamental Identity / we’ve got to simultaneously hold both the conventional perspective and the transcendental perspective / seei…
1011: Decoding the Messages of the Universe
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman / “Kṛṣṇa is compared to sunshine, and māyā is compared to darkness.” - Sri Caitanya / “Whatever appears to…
1010: Words that Slacken the Knot in the Heart
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” —David Foster Wallace / do we point the truth only at others, or can we point it at ourselves? / Jada Bharata accepts karmic resp…
1009: Inter-Interview
Raghunath and Kaustubha ask each other…..
• When did you know that you had to commit your life to Bhakti? • What were your biggest doubts in the beginning? • What are your biggest doubts now?
1008: Q & A Volume 160
What’s the difference between love and Love? / Should we sing mantras glorifying the demigods? / What is the importance of studying verses in Sanskrit?
1007: We're Not Naughty by Nature
"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” - Elbert Hubbard / karma is a natural law designed to foster a disposition of kindness, compassion and generosity / karma helps us own the conseque…
1006: King Today, Dog Tomorrow
I Love Mayapur / our material positions are merely conventional / externally operating according to material convention, internally thinking on the spiritual level / king today, dog tomorrow / for …