1788: The Gopīs' Love | The Complete, Concentrated Form of Yogic Awareness
The yogī sits for years, disciplining the mind, trying to bring scattered awareness to a single point of focus. In this episode Raghunath an...
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1787: What Are You Exchanging Your Life For? | Thoreau and the Gopī Gīta
Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." With every choice, we're trading the moments o...
1786: Our Love and Prayers for the People of Venezuela
This episode begins with a sober heart. A dear member of the Wisdom of the Sages community was caught in the middle of the earthquake that s...
1785: Direction Will Come to You | Phil Jackson and the Heart of Bhakti
Phil Jackson won eleven championship rings — the most of any coach in NBA history. His secret wasn't more effort. It was less noise. "If you...
1784: "If Creation Is Play of Brahman, Why all the Suffering?" | Bhakti-Vedānta and Līlā
If creation is God's play, why do we suffer? It's one of the oldest questions in philosophy — and the Srimad Bhagavatam answers it through t...
1783: Keeping the Bhakti Romance Alive / Q&A Vol. 296
How do you keep bhakti fresh, sweet and progressive for the rest of your life — fueled by genuine love rather than institutional guilt or a...
1782: Nothing Can Remain Hidden | Da Vinci, Manu and Radharani
The wheels of justice grind slow, but fine. The truth eventually rises to the top. "Truth at last cannot be hidden. Nothing is hidden under...
1781: The Hunger for Beauty | A Signal from the Soul
Every beautiful thing we encounter is a signal pointing somewhere. Our hunger for beauty isn't random — it can be read as a signal. In this...
1780: Bhakti's Sacred Longing | In Separation, the Beloved Is Found Everywhere
How can longing be ecstasy? How can absence be the deepest form of presence? This is one of the great mysteries of love — and bhakti yoga il...
1779: Divine Madness | The Samādhi of the Gopīs
What looks like madness from the outside is the whole goal of yoga from the inside. Jacopone da Todi — Crazy Jim from Todi — found that ever...
1778: No Monopoly on God | Exclusivism and the God Who Withdraws
The moment you think your group owns God is the moment He begins to slip away.understood this. When Bill Wilson, founder of AA and a devout...
1777: Nothing Compares 2 U | The Gopīs' Message of Surrender
William James — the father of American psychology — spent years studying mystical and religious experiences across every tradition. What he...
1776: Authority Descends from the Author | The Gopīs Reveal the Highest Dharma
The Vedic tradition lays out dharma with remarkable precision — the duties of a wife, a husband, a parent, a child, a citizen. The gopīs of...
1775: When Krishna Closes One Door He Opens Another / Q&A Vol. 295
Sometimes the thing that feels like a loss turns out to be the setup for something far better. In this special retreat Q&A from Super Soul F...
1774: What is a Pure Devotee? / Q&A Vol. 294
Recorded live at the Wisdom of the Sages retreat at SuperSoul Farm, this Q&A episode opens with a question that sits at the heart of bhakti...
1773: Let Your FOMO Be for the Divine | Saint Augustine and the Gopīs
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 — w...
1772: Everyone Worships Something | Free Will and the Object of Our Affection
Everyone worships something. The rock star, the ideology, the bottle of wine, the beautiful person across the room. Dostoevsky identified it...
1771: The Weakness of Willpower & The Power of Attention
Willpower is fundamentally the wrong tool for inner transformation. French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil argued that attention — not di...
1770: 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 exper...
1769: Answer the Call of the Heart | The Bhaktivedanta Path of Renunciation
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...