Wisdom of the Sages

The meaning we find in scripture often reveals more about our motive than the text itself. This episode explores the uncomfortable truth: that we don't just read scripture—we often recruit it. Nearly any philosophy can be bent in the direction we're already leaning. Raghunath and Kaustubha examine how two people can read the same teaching and walk away with completely opposite conclusions, why real growth begins with examining our motives rather than merely quoting sources, the difference between being transformed by sacred texts and being justified by them, and how compassion may be the clearest measure of whether a teaching has truly been understood.
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This episode is a deep dive into death, vulnerability, and the strange grace that appears when we stop running and start facing reality with the holy name on our lips. A near-death moment in Māyāpur cracks open one of life's most carefully avoided truths: everything we refuse to face quietly takes control from the shadows. In this episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore Carl Jung's piercing insight—"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate"—and why bhakti is anything but spiritual bypassing.
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A striking model of surrender emerges in this episode: accepting both mercy and correction as meaningful, purposeful, and transformative.
Spoken live from Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, this conversation unfolds around a simple Christian devotional line—"I do not know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow"—and follows it into much deeper bhakti territory. Rather than offering certainty or comfort, the discussion explores what it actually means to trust God when outcomes are unclear and control quietly slips away.
Drawing from pilgrimage moments in Navadvīpa, immersive kīrtan, and a revealing section of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the episode turns to Kāliya, the serpent whose suffering leads not to resentment but to humility and clarity. His prayer becomes a mirror for our own lives, reframing adversity not as punishment, but as a precise and personal form of guidance.
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A quiet morning of kirtan in Mayapur opens into a deeper reflection on what spiritual maturity actually looks like—not as an idea, but as a lived quality of the heart.
Using Confucius' insight on wisdom, compassion, and courage, this episode explores why compassion is not sentiment or softness, but a measure of real growth. Drawing from the prayers of the Nāgapatnīs in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the conversation moves into fear, surrender, and why grace does not wait for a perfectly purified heart.
Along the way, Raghunath and Kaustubha reflect on Narasiṁhadeva as the remover of inner obstacles, the difference between skill-base.
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As global uncertainty hums in the background, this moment in history feels both fragile and purposeful.
Moving between history, theology, and lived experience, Raghunath and Kaustubha reflect on pilgrimage, mercy, and the distinct generosity of Śrī Caitanya's path. Broadcast from Śrīdhāma Māyāpur,  they explore how bhakti continues to shape culture in India and beyond and
why spiritual emotion often arises not from sentimentality, but from a sudden recognition of the gift one has received.
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