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
365: Questions & Answers – Volume 46
how to navigate the different types of relationships with God? / what does it mean to surrender to God? / can the great teachers of the past hear our prayers?
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364: Snipping the Strings of our Puppeteers
am I a puddle or a pond? / the spiritual separation paradox - like dry ice / the double perception of simultaneous separation and meeting / the order of the Lord and the Lord Himself are identical / …
363: Crossing the Line in Spiritual Relationships
Momma Cappo’s attitude of gratitude / Uddhava gets ready to depart to the Himalayas / maryādā-vyatikrama - crossing the line of etiquette / the following of etiquette can serve as a yogic practice th…
362: Cultivating the Greed for Pure Devotion
Adrian Eagle putting out positive soul / cultivating a burning desire for pure bhakti - leaving behind the minutiae / fanning the spark / Raghu’s dream of Vrindavan - you just have to want it / sitti…
361: Refining Our Desires
that disgusting liquid beauty story / based on beauty, love soon dies / Raghu’s experimentations in meditation on the non-cartoon Krishna / Maitreya enters the scene / depersonalization precedes abus…
360: On Prostitutes, Thieves & Bhakti-yoga
writing people off / mind your own business / Jara the hunter returns to the spiritual world / even to date there are many prostitutes in great cities of India who are sincere devotees of the Lord / …
359: Interview with Gaura Vani – Expressing Our Internal Practice Externally
vigilance to deepen spiritual life / the love that can transform any circumstance / seeing my karma as my responsibility and yours with compassion / the ease of the master / being at ease in the stre…
358: Questions & Answers – Volume 45
how to make sense of stories that appear to makes God’s grace random / how do you train yourself to not get offended? / I want to contribute service to the world but circumstances are making it diffi…
357: Never Diss the A-list Sages
fly like an eagle & don’t kill skunks - how a yogi handles annoying people / serve those you envy / by hearing and chanting Krishna’s glories, conditioned souls born in the future would cross beyond …
356: Why Should I Worry?
why should I worry? / WWE wrestling is a warped reflection of Krsna killing Kamsa / every Bollywood movie is a warped reflection of Krishna rescuing Rukmini / you can be a sassy yogi / platypuses are…
355: The Desire for Love - Does a Yogi Eliminate it or Purify it?
King of Hearts walks on the show / Krishna’s pastimes facilitate the exchange of devotional love / is the desire for love something alien to my true self that needs to be identified and eliminated - …
354: Krishna Stories - Kitsch or Sublime Theology?
happy birthday Kaustubha / definition of kitsch / key for understanding the stories of Krishna’s pastimes - it’s all about facilitating the exchange of devotional love / Krishna & his mother’s love /…
353: Questions & Answers – Volume 44
please explain the Shelter song “Message of the Bhagavat” / what is the highest being one can reincarnate as, and what kind of life should one lead in order to gain the privilege? / is it cultural ap…
352: Magnify the Good in Others - Minimize the Flaws
Krishna worships Draupadi / Krishna becomes Arjuna’s driver / all the details are in the comic books / wisdom & old age go well together / Krishna begs forgiveness of his parents / Krishna acts like …
351: Krishna - the God of Love
Shyamasundari and the Syama Ashrama / how to understand the yoga traditions worship of form / 3 features of the Divine / Krishna’s unexcelled beauty / the gods are watching us at every moment / why a…
350: The Heart is a Garden - the Heart is a Temple
Raghu’s spiritual bucket list / the baby that fell in the donation box / the orphanage at the Chowpatty temple / 9 stages of bhakti / anartha nivrtti: decreasing of unwanted attachments / 4 types of …
349: Body in the Material World / Mind in the Spiritual World
feed your focus - starve your distractions / Kaustubha’s Krishna miracle / Uddhava displays sattvika-bhavas - involuntary expressions arising directly from the spiritually surcharged consciousness / …
348: Interview with Jahnavi Harrison / Taking Devotional Art into the 21st Century
writing devotional sounds / meeting Willow Smith / The need for Western devotional music / Rise - a progression toward the promise of one’s true nature / a record born through the COVID crisis / reco…
347: We Either Grow or We Repeat
Sri T. Krishnamacharya - the father of modern yoga / 3 levels of asana according to one’s faith / surviving death / why worship the demigods? / either grow or repeat / Krishna’s lila - taking the div…
346: Spirituality Both Playful & Didactic
we must end this uncivil war / profoundly do we understand the spiritual nature that unites us all? / Krishna’s lila is both playful & didactic / true objectivity requires expanding the mind / when d…