Wisdom of the Sages

How can one apply Bhakti wisdom to the grief of the loss of a loved one?

The influences of the gunas are woven into the tapestry every object w encounter, and every circumstance we experience / a wise person learns how to make the gunas work for them / only when one is content, can they focus inward SB 4.29.26-32

careful what you look for- you'll find it / attachment clouds truth perception / who am I in this story - wise Narada or the attached king? / peeling away the layers of attachment / the humility of Akinchana Krishna das Babaji / am I in control or am I being controlled? SB 4.29.1-27

the need for material success, popularity, and power stem from self-rejection / "Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence." Henri J.M. Nouwen / don't get triggered out of the treasure / the only satisfying identity is I am spirit / the soul is a person and an enjoyer in reality / non-binary gender identification mentioned in Srimad-Bhagavatam / our factual position - both one with and different from God / every Starbucks should have a swan 40% off Divya's Masterclass with link https://divyas.com/?ref=6799 SB 4.28.55-65

What do you do when your guru gives you an instruction but your heart and intuition say something else? / Was Srila Prabhupada a saint? 40% off Divya's Masterclass with link https://divyas.com/?ref=6799

Guru Questions

Can one love, without loving themselves first? / What can I do for Krishna? Is intention enough? / Any advice for bringing kids on pilgrimage? / How does a swami become a swami?

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow / How deep is my need for illusion? / Our home is the spiritual world / Plato's allegory - Life as we know it, is like being chained in a cave and forced to watch shadows of reality projected on a stone wall / Who am I, among Plato's cave dwellers? / things in the physical world are flawed reflection of the ideal forms in the spiritual world / Is there a source of light that will reveal the falsity in even our most basic assumptions? / physicists speak of a real world behind the world of perception and change / when the living entity wants to enjoy himself, he falls down into the material world / how we both fall and never fall, from the spiritual world / you should try to realize the meaning of what I have said through cit-samadhi, spiritual meditation SB 4.28.54

how to relieve the world's suffering / spiritual knowledge as a way of checking the imbalance of values in life, and achieving real unity and peace / "The more directly one aims to maximize pleasure and avoid pain, the more likely one is to produce instead a life bereft of depth, meaning and community." - Emily Esfahani Smith / the Supersoul isn't a judge, He's a friend / how many burials or funeral pyres of our loved ones have we witnessed in our many lifetimes? / funeral pyre renunciation / how many times have we heard that voice and ignored it? / desiring earthly enjoyments, we've become attached / we're allowed to unfollow whoever we want

in life's most difficult moments, when one feels most alone, we may hear the voice of God within / we have an eternal friend in the heart / we're still far away from our original home / we've been traveling in different forms throughout this material world / we've forgotten our spiritual life and have been placed in various miserable conditions / our sense of identity shifts from one body to another / we're in the process of remembering what we are / formula to hear God - follow the instructions of a master - and then God will instruct you in the heart / just because there's lots of fool's gold doesn't mean there isn't any real gold