Latest Dgit Podcast Episodes
1257: What it Takes to be an Instrument of Healing
Wisdom of the Sages - February 21, 2024 16:28 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsCreeps are out there / what it takes to be an instrument of healing / “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.” - Jesus / it’s not spoken allegiance that makes one a son of God, it's aligning one's heart with His / Kaustub...
1256: 3 Levels of God Realization: Brahman, Paramatma & Bhagavan
Wisdom of the Sages - February 20, 2024 15:02 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsHow do you introduce higher dimensions of consciousness into your awareness? / Bhagavatam isn’t valid because it's ancient. It's ancient because it's valid. / growth means seeing your circumstances through a higher lens / the planets have a pull - so add the Krishna graha into your life / thesis...
1255: Mantras, Yantras & the All Auspicious Krishna Planet
Wisdom of the Sages - February 19, 2024 16:03 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius / temples (and ritual) are all about elevating the quality of our thoughts / clearing the head and heart of resentment, anger and bitterness / we find what we’re looking for / the Vastu Purusha / you can’...
1254: Q & A Volume 212
Wisdom of the Sages - February 17, 2024 16:18 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsHow can we best face our own mortality? / Can you speak on the relationship between Radha and Krishna / Are there any stories of Krisna with cats?
1253: This is Not the Future We Wanted!
Wisdom of the Sages - February 16, 2024 15:04 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings"Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage, while the robots write poetry and paint, is not the future I wanted." - Karl Sharro / ya can’t beat the system / simplicity & kindness / because we remain servants of our senses, we can never be satisfied / the Devas give up food and sleep, meditating...
1252: It's Not the Mountain We Conquer, but Ourselves
Wisdom of the Sages - February 15, 2024 15:29 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsAnything we have to conquer can be integrated as part of our Bhakti practice / give it your best effort and be detached from the results / mastering an even mind, equal vision and inner happiness / becoming successful emotion managers / Hiraṇyakaśipu terrorizes the universe / pass on praise or i...
1251: Gandhi's 7 Social Sins
Wisdom of the Sages - February 13, 2024 14:13 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsseek employment in the field, and with the kind of people you would select if you had no need for money / religion has been stripped of the sacrifice of ones body, words and mind / do you need to erase your conscience to enjoy? / the demonic mentality can’t recognize one’s dependence on the high...
1250: Pablo EscoBear & the God Shaped Hole in the Heart
Wisdom of the Sages - February 12, 2024 16:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsAndrew C. Thornton II’s unbridled greed - how much cocaine do you need to sell to be happy? / Dr Bruce Alexander and the Rat Park Experiments / “One should accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to ...
1249: Q & A Volume 211
Wisdom of the Sages - February 11, 2024 14:11 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsAs an adoptee, how can I understand the longing I have to meet my birth mother in the context of Bhakti-yoga? / Does a yogi just accept their ADHD, or do they try to mitigate it? / Is it too early to speak to my 5 year old about death and reincarnation? / How to process life’s curses?
1248: Q & A Volume 210
Wisdom of the Sages - February 10, 2024 14:41 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsHow do we become normalized to suffering, however abominable it may be? / Will you please explain ISKCON’s view of the Trimurti? (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva) / How important is it for us to desire to go back to Godhead?
1247: The Vrindavan Flower Vendor
Wisdom of the Sages - February 09, 2024 12:36 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsthe Vrindavan flower vendor / if daily, love infused seva became mandatory in New York City / aligning one’s heart with the heart of God / the service itself is the payment / we see God in the deity to see God in the heart of every / Raghu would use the mystic powers only for good / the great co...
1246: Receiving Knowledge from Nature / Interview with Giridhari Das
Wisdom of the Sages - February 08, 2024 12:25 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsRaghunath interviews Giridhari Das, an American who left his past behind, moved to Holy India, built his own cob house, grows his own food, and practices Bhakti-yoga.
1245: If a Psychiatrist & a Guru Sat With Us Through a Horror Movie
Wisdom of the Sages - February 02, 2024 15:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“Sometimes a dream almost whispers.” - Steven Spielberg / are we asking for advice, or for an instruction? / we're being driven around in a rental car / you can have Krishna consciousness right now, if you really want it / if we had a psychiatrist and a guru with us in the movie theater / the me...
1244: Real Truth is the Medicine
Wisdom of the Sages - February 01, 2024 13:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.” – Mother Teresa / there’s a lot of crazy talk in our mind / sometimes God’s plan is for Raghu to keep the stage dive money / never consider yourself to be the Ultimate cause / put in the effort, but understand there’...
1243: We Follow Our Mind Like a Slave Until We Find Truth
Wisdom of the Sages - January 31, 2024 14:16 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingswe’re living out the dream of Bhaktivinode Thakura / what good are my beauty products when this body burns? / isn’t it just sane to recognize and appreciate all that’s provided for me? / because we lack conviction in our spiritual nature, we focus on the differences and suffer / we follow our mi...
1242: Q & A Volume 209
Wisdom of the Sages - January 29, 2024 13:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsHow can Sri Chaitanya give the highest gift to the most unqualified? / Please explain, who are the Pancha Tattva? / Is loving God as Father a lower type of love?
1241: Plant a Tree!
Wisdom of the Sages - January 24, 2024 15:27 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“The one who plants trees knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.” — Rabindranath Tagore / As pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the trunk, branches, twigs and everything else, simply worshiping the Supreme Person t...
1240: Beautiful Devotional Audacity
Wisdom of the Sages - January 23, 2024 15:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsone who is content enjoys transcendental happiness without endeavoring / for one who has mastered ahimsa, others become nonviolent in their presence / We need a class of pure hearted spiritualists without a material agenda / It’s simple math to see the value of a cow / There’s gotta be an adult ...
1239: Jai Sri Ram!
Wisdom of the Sages - January 22, 2024 13:45 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings(may God) deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away - Rumi / Begging for the removal of envy and animosity / let your meditation be thick like honey on Krishna / may our minds go to Krishna spontaneously /...
1238: Q & A Volume 208
Wisdom of the Sages - January 20, 2024 15:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsWhat are some of the do’s and don’ts when attending a temple? / Can you tell us about Sri Caitanya?
1237: Emancipate Yourself from Mental Slavery
Wisdom of the Sages - January 19, 2024 15:21 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings"If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already." — Bob Marley / Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley / get obsessed with things that lift you up / knowledge frees one from the pain of insults / our issues all stem from our bodily concepts / enmity is a powerful meditation...
1236: What We Meditate Upon, We Become
Wisdom of the Sages - January 17, 2024 14:25 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsRaghu’s official apology to Bob Marley / “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” - Earl Nightingale / Only if one contemplates something continuously does it become fixed as internal consciousness and manifest as a part of one’s nature. - Sri Madhvachar...
1235: The Wisdom in Accepting Our Fate
Wisdom of the Sages - January 16, 2024 12:49 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsthe wisdom in accepting our fate / it’s the strong person who can accepts reversals in life without complaint / we have very little control beyond our own mind / entering Sage Level 3 / Sisupala’s focused hatred of Krishna / Krishna’s cool headed tolerance of Sisupala’s insults / right in the mi...
1234: How to Guard Your Snow Globe-like Heart
Wisdom of the Sages - January 15, 2024 15:40 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings‘Have your heart always turned towards the Divine…. It is not exterior silence that makes a monk, but silence of the heart.’ - Theodora of Alexandria / how to guard your snow globe heart / love God above all things, preserve tranquility, be meek and without malice, avoid obscenity and silliness,...
1233: Q & A Volume 207
Wisdom of the Sages - January 14, 2024 14:35 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsHow can I clear the bad karma accumulated through activities of the past? / If one of the pillars of Bhakti is to take no offense, why does the SB speak about the danger of offending pure devotees? / What is the Bhakti viewpoint on chanting japa silently?
1232: Passing Through the Gates of Crisis
Wisdom of the Sages - January 12, 2024 14:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“In ancient India, soul-searching crisis was not concealed or imbued with shame, but viewed as an important time of transition, a deep rite of passage.” - Simon Hass / passing through the gates of soul searching crisis to the next level of spiritual advancement / sacred literature- it’s one cris...
1231: The Soul Within the Body & Behind the Mind
Wisdom of the Sages - January 10, 2024 13:06 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views.“ - Will Durant / only the impartial can see the truth / true impartiality is found through seeing the soul within the body and behind the mind / Vishnu is both a cat and a dog person / the result of mixed dev...
1230: Q & A Volume 206
Wisdom of the Sages - January 07, 2024 14:25 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsMy question is about the difference between Shaivism and Vaishnavism? / Should we pray for others? / What advice should I give families as a hospice nurse?
1229: Spend 5 Minutes with Your Worst Enemy
Wisdom of the Sages - January 04, 2024 14:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 845 ratingswhen two enemies are talking, they're not fighting / if you spend five minutes with your worst enemy you will find that you both have something in common / Bhakti rituals destroy cruelty in the heart / Wanna change the world? Change yourself / Radhanath Swami's internal purity is changing the wo...
1228: Am I a Warmonger?
Wisdom of the Sages - January 03, 2024 16:26 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingslove others and God above all / Hate the greed, tyranny and animal appetite within ourselves / Spiritual freedom is the true happiness / See ourselves with the big I identity / We’re just concocting mental turbo scenarios / Our mind creates happiness and distress in illusion / Understand we’re l...
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