Wisdom of the Sages

resurrecting our natural identity / Bhagavatam background - Suta, Sukadeva & King Pariksit / bhakti mitigates material miseries / cats & monkeys / Krishna's energies - internal, external & marginal / we are like the beach, sometimes covered and sometimes uncovered / living in the moment / savant syndrome - underneath it all, nothing can touch the soul / true social justice requires equal vision - Bhagavad-gita 5.18 / Joan of Arc is Bhagavatam

sages hits #1 / Krishna takes everything away / Jesus didn't even have a watch / thanks to the listeners! / just a matter of time before our world gets shaken / transcending good & bad / Drona - Arjuna's guru / Vyasadeva's ashram high in the Himalayas / Krishna, God, Higher Power, Divine Source - let's not get caught up in the semantics / Vyasa's meditation / the 3 gunas / sattva guna expands the space between stimulus & response / our fundamental problem - misidentification with the mind & body / analogy of the moon's reflection on water

choose your addictions carefully / loving every living being - beyond externals / what is the duty of one about to die (all of us) / perspective - our senses are so limited / karma & free will / free will expands & contracts according to the choices we make / bhakti releases one from past karma / yoga as an access point out of samsara / you get what you get & don't be upset / Maya (illusion) keeps out the riffraff / religious language vs yogic language - sin = bad karma / Astrology as a form of metaphysical materialism / we think we're free, even when we are completely controlled

Raghu makes bhakti history on Joe Rogan / speaking with genuine conviction can be as strong as a well developed argument / summary - what is Srimad Bhagavatam / we are here to grow / Narada's meditation experience / even-mindedness through shifting externals is called yoga (Bhagavad-Gita 2.48) / fundamental misconception - happiness is found through external things / a peaceful mind is not the end goal - it is the platform for connecting with spiritual sound

what's next God? / time is short - we gotta get focused / gravity / the material world gets boring / we've got too much love to give to just one person / the 50's / bhakti accumulates / petty material things are like shadows / Narada's character, instructions, meditation & results / the interconnectedness of trees / how do you know it's a myth? / what do we build our faith on / it all can't come from nothing

Raghu's in Cali / everything we have is a gift from someone / Narada's perfection in meditation / the bhakti path - 9 steps from faith to divine love / be steady and do the basics / we're chasing forms that don't satisfy / flash melts / bhakti is a descending (not ascending) path

it's not about joining a club / focus on kindness & simplicity - drop the pettiness / you've been tricked to hate / simplicity means finding pleasure in the simple things / bhakti means transforming our desires - not our name or our clothes / this world is a jungle and we have to see God in the heart of all the creatures / Krishna appears in the heart of little Narada / Paramatma as the object of meditation / the value of initiation / there is a qualification to receive mantras - it's not done by whim / guru stuff vs guru fluff / study Srimad Bhagavatam to understand what is a real guru / guru, sadhu & shastra / some final words from bhakti Louis

retraction: the Council of Nicea / gulab jamuns for increasing church attendance / we are made up of the mercy of other people's love / spiritual form / sharing knowledge is the ultimate act of welfare / seeing all reversals as blessings / taking "Why is this happening to me!?" out of our rotation / Raghu's Scottish divine messenger / wandering alone as a spiritual practice / warning: never chase female owls / sadhus see God in the hearts of the dangerous animals / we need to walk more / we can also just sit & hear

little tweaks / get rid of your enemies / hurt people hurt people / I wanna know what love is / based on beauty, love soon dies / the power of commitment / sense control can overcome depression / radical self-change / bhakti delivers knowledge as a concomitant factor / good intelligence - I may only be going 40mph, but it's in the right direction / transcendental sound delivers knowledge, spiritual opulences & love / faith comes in increments / the sound in your world determines the sound in your mind

Raghu's first, weird temple experience /what is Deity worship all about? / controlling body, words & mind / how to wake up in the morning / Aindra Das' intense devotion / "it's not for me first" / duty is the first step in mastering the mind / St. Valentine / can dented cans become undented? / dedicating all our activities / tiny brains / putting oneself in the center leads to suffering / Krishna saves Raghu from choking on a lozenge / the secret to success / making the material world spiritual