1837: Flirting with Krishna | Live with Pilgrims from the Himalayas
Some people meet Krishna, feel overwhelmed, and run. Years later, they find themselves bathing in the Ganges in the Himalayas. In this episo...
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1836: The Absolute Truth Goes to School | Why Krishna Studied Under a Guru
He is the origin of every branch of knowledge, and yet he sits down at the feet of a teacher. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha, live...
1835: Can You Love Without Possessing? | Siddhartha and the Art of Letting Go
A sage who has found peace beside the river is suddenly undone by love for a son he never knew he had, and Time, in the form of the river, l...
1834: Hurt Others, Hurt Yourself | The Web of Mutual Obligation
"I'm independent. I don't owe anybody anything." It's the modern dream: happiness without obligation. Moral teachings answer that we're wove...
1833: If You Don't See God in All, You Won't See God at All | Beyond Religious Ritual
You can attend every service, perform every ritual perfectly, but if you're unkind to the people around you, then you've missed God entirely...
1832: Adapting Ancient Wisdom Without Losing It / Q&A Vol. 302
How does an ancient wisdom tradition survive for thousands of years? It needs teachers who hand it down unchanged, and yet each generation h...
1831: Living Bhakti Among People Who Don't Share It / Q&A Vol. 301
There's a sticky note in Ashley's refrigerator that reads "meat section." She's the only devotee in her home, and between a loving family th...
1830: Bhakti Doesn't Grow in a Hard Heart / Q&A Vol. 300
Someone on the street asks you for money, and you're fairly sure where it will go, and it's not good. Can walking past be compassion, or is...
1829: A Field Guide to Your Inner Demons | Bhaktivinoda Thakur Decodes Krishna's Pastimes
In the 19th century, British colonial scholars dismissed the pastimes of Krishna as primitive and immoral, and a generation of educated Indi...
1828: We Never Learned the Power of Our Thoughts | You Become What You Think About
Be good. Behave. Behave yourself. Growing up, most of us heard plenty about our actions and almost nothing about the thoughts that produce t...
1827: The Emptiness of Peace and the Fullness of Love | Meditation Beyond Stillness
Most of us long for a quiet mind. But what fills it once the noise is gone? On a solo bike ride across upstate New York, Raghunath finds tha...
1826: Why the Comment Thread Is Killing Your Soul | Speaking Truth to Power
When something is wrong and we say nothing, our own inner light begins to fade. But speaking up only heals when it comes from a place of lov...
1825: Our Labels Are Warping Our Vision | The Many Ways We Respond to Krishna
I'm a man. I'm a woman. I'm American. I'm this, I'm that. Every label we carry colors how we see the world, ourselves and God. Yoga starts f...
1824: You're Not in Control | The Placebo Illusion and the Bhakti Reality
Our sense of security is based on illusion — confirmed by both modern science and the sages of the Bhakti Yoga tradition. A landmark psychia...
1823: Life Is Sacred and Life Is Everywhere | The Earth Personified in Krishna's Pastimes
In the form of a beautiful teenager God enters a new city, meets a hunchback girl in the street, transforms her body and enters a romance wi...
1822: Grace in Your Face | Human Nature's Resistance to Unconditional Love
Are we all like wounded animals caught in a fence, biting the hand of the person trying to help? Is spiritual grace something exceptionally...
1821: Krishna Doesn't Need Your Zucchini Bread | But He Wants Your Love
The Bhagavad-gītā sings of Krishna as the Absolute Truth — complete in himself, independent and lacking nothing. He doesn't need anything we...
1820: They Took Him Into Their Hearts Through Their Eyes | Krishna Enters Mathurā
When Krishna and Balarāma entered Mathurā, the women climbed to the rooftops and showered them with flowers. They took him into their hearts...
1819: Daring to Fly Higher | Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the Ascent to Bhakti
In the 1970s the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull became a bestseller. A parable about a gull who refuses to follow the flock and discovers...
1818: Why Nothing in This World Satisfies Us
Voltaire — the greatest writer of the French Enlightenment wrote that there is a dim flame burning in every heart — an intuition that somewh...