Latest Srimadbhagavatam Podcast Episodes
1324: A Love Supreme
Wisdom of the Sages - May 23, 2024 12:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsJohn Coltrane – “God breathes through us so completely, so gently we hardly feel it, yet, it is our everything.” / spirituality starts as a vague intuition there’s more / Coltrane’s symbolism of Divine love in all 12 keys / the greatest secret of the sacred text - there is a person behind every...
1323: Nrisimha Avatar Fascinates the Sages
Wisdom of the Sages - May 22, 2024 12:55 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsThe Nrisimha Avatara’s heart frolics with his own playful pastimes / He fascinates the great sages / He enlightens His devotees from within their hearts / although ferocious, He is very soft and kind to devotees / He is here and there and everywhere / Prahlad’s gratitude to his guru / Prahlad id...
1322: The Counterintuitive Truth about Happiness
Wisdom of the Sages - May 21, 2024 12:28 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsLeo Tolstoy - “Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” / figuring out how to use your gift as an offering / material enjoyment is junk food- service is nourishment / the unique Bhakti ...
1321: All My Dreams Pass Before My Eyes, a Curiosity
Wisdom of the Sages - May 20, 2024 12:31 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsall the great wisdom cultures draw our attention to our helplessness to the force of time / all your money won't another minute buy / the 3 modes of material nature - without our knowledge, external influences are working their way into your mind / basically, we’re all like defiant teenagers / a...
1320: Practicing Bhakti in War-torn Iraq - Interview with Partha Sarathi das
Wisdom of the Sages - May 19, 2024 13:29 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsWhile serving in active duty as a sergeant in the US Army in war-torn Iraq, Partha-sarathi Dasa maintained his devotion and encouraged it in the hearts of others.
1319: Q & A Volume 224
Wisdom of the Sages - May 18, 2024 14:52 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsWhy don’t you guys present a higher Vedic standard? / Why don’t you guys present a more tolerant standard? / How can I support someone who doesn't share my beliefs?
1318: The Material World is Rigged
Wisdom of the Sages - May 17, 2024 12:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsreading the world's patterns, recognizing the truths operating through them, coming to terms with those truths / the Taoist law of reverted effort - when humans try to fix things by their actions, the effect will be the exact opposite of that desired / the great paradox of our time: everything i...
1317: Always Carrying That Higher Idea in the Heart
Wisdom of the Sages - May 16, 2024 12:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings"Your future, your hard dangerous path is this: to mature and to find God in yourselves.” Herman Hesse / we’ve gone from letters, to emails, to written text messages, to emojis / we’ve gone from Shakespeare, to movies, to YouTube, to scrolling reels / focus on the higher call – let go of petty a...
1316: Giving Liberates the Soul of the Giver
Wisdom of the Sages - May 15, 2024 12:18 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsselfishness is the core of our bondage / the quality of your heart, while giving, makes a difference / world peace can’t be done? / why Bhakti is translated as devotional service / faith without works is dead / eternal love is a higher aspiration than eternal peace / Prahlad's prayer with a hear...
1315: How We Miss the Spiritual Essence
Wisdom of the Sages - May 14, 2024 12:44 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.” - St. Augustine / in fighting over inessential details we miss the essence / Bhagavatam is sarva-vedānta-sāraṁ - the essence of all the Vedic literature / if the inessential details aren’t bringing us to the essence, we can...
1314: The Malware of the Mind
Wisdom of the Sages - May 13, 2024 12:38 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” – origin unknown / we each perceive the world through a uniquely programed mind / Religion = regulation for the purpose of checking sin, Yoga = regulation for purpose of clear perception / one must carefully choose and maintain the files...
1313: Q & A Volume 222
Wisdom of the Sages - May 12, 2024 12:25 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsWhere Does All the Darkness in the world come from? / How to deal with the struggle of re-integrating after returning from a spiritual pilgrimage? / Who were the 6 Goswami’s of Vrindavan and what was their role?
1312: Our Heaviest Burdens are the Thoughts in Our Heads
Wisdom of the Sages - May 10, 2024 12:44 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsthe burdens of hate and resentment / “Some of the worst things in my life never even happened” - Mark Twain / the attractiveness of the unburdened / Bhagavatam juxtaposes the burdened and the unburdened / Brahma expresses wonder / brahma gives credit for creation to Vishnu / Shiva gives credit f...
1311: Play Until You Can Play Like Yourself
Wisdom of the Sages - May 09, 2024 12:39 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” - Miles Davis / Krishna gets lost in his own play / first we follow the rules until we can play spontaneously / Lila is both playful and didactic / our divine love is warped by the element of selfishness / understanding t...
Bhakti’s Esoteric Feature - Lila & Rasa
Wisdom of the Sages - May 08, 2024 14:02 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsLila refers to Krishna's play, in the dramatic sense, as well as in the sense of child's play or ease / Rasa refers to the particular loving mood relished in the exchange of love with Krishna / it's not that Krishna's lila is modeled after the drama of this world, rather it's the other way aroun...
1309: From Each Little Thing We Draw Counsel for Spiritual Life
Wisdom of the Sages - May 07, 2024 12:07 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe.” - Albert Einstein / both the believer and the skeptic are investing faith / Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back int...
1308: Martin Luther King's Metaphysical Personalism
Wisdom of the Sages - May 06, 2024 12:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“The clue to the meaning of ultimate reality is found in personality.” Dr. Martin Luther King / our understanding of our shared connection to God dissolves our divisive mentalities / denial of the Personality behind the Universe removes the element of gratitude from our thinking / Ishvara in the...
1307: Q & A Volume 222
Wisdom of the Sages - May 04, 2024 13:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsHow do I find a Krishna a conscious way to prepare my family pet and the environment for his death? / I know we place significant importance on actually saying the mantra out loud, but is my method a legitimate way to chant? / How can one meet a guru if they live far from a temple? If you have...
1306: The Physicist Needs a Guru (Can Science Rule Out the Soul?)
Wisdom of the Sages - May 03, 2024 13:01 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsIs self-replication the measure of life? / is there a sufficient level of intelligence for matter to become conscious? / is there an “emergent property” that creates consciousness? / is Brian Cox really “damn sure” that consciousness is physical (our could it be that it is just very subtle)? / “...
1305: Bhagavad Gita Themes in Kipling's 'If'
Wisdom of the Sages - May 02, 2024 12:51 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsseeing life’s problems as tests, and rising to meet them / even-mindedness when all are losing their heads / all the great saints had to respond to persecution / the impostors of Triumph and Disaster / pretentiousness as the next level of the test / always responding with positive energy / passi...
1304: Beautiful Destitution
Wisdom of the Sages - May 01, 2024 13:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“Beware of over-concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” - Rudyard Kipling / the emptiness that drives us to seek fulfillment through externals / the treasure in the heart of the sadhu / affect...
1303: The Truth Blockers - Attachment, Fear & Resentment
Wisdom of the Sages - April 30, 2024 13:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratings“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” - Friedrich Nietzsche / don’t be afraid to turn it all upside down / “It makes no material sense” / The George Costanza Approach - do the opposite / these mant...
1302: Doomscrolling & the Endeavor for Happiness
Wisdom of the Sages - April 29, 2024 14:23 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsall our conveniences are making our minds less patient / less patient minds are less happy / as soon as you endeavor for happiness it backfires / change your algorithms / you can’t be happy unless you’re satvic / break the doomscrolling cycles / a zoomed out perspective of history / a wise perso...
1301: Q & A Volume 221
Wisdom of the Sages - April 27, 2024 13:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsWhat is your Bhakti-yoga elevator pitch? / Did Sri Chaitanya know He was Krishna? / If we are not the body, why is it important that our ashes are thrown in the Ganges river after we die?
1300: 1300!
Wisdom of the Sages - April 23, 2024 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsCelebrate Episode 1300 with us as we hear testimonials from Wisdom of the Sages listeners about how the podcast, Bhakti & Srimad Bhagavatam have transformed their lives. Check out Timothy Todd's t shirts at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Timothytoddtshirts
1299: Cluttered Space = Cluttered Mind
Wisdom of the Sages - April 22, 2024 12:41 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsWe don’t realize the burden that’s weighing us down (resentment, anger, fear, etc.) like a dreadlocked, homeless dog / "It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men." - Jean de la Bruyere / Jatayu was a complete success / evolution of motive from Karma to Jnana to Bhakti / good ...
1298: Q & A Volume 220
Wisdom of the Sages - April 21, 2024 13:20 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsCan you kindly explain the “three principal energies?” -Internal, External and Marginal? / Can you speak on the dance between faith in guru vs. having a relationship that is overly dependent? / As a neophyte devotee, how do I get the taste for praying?
1297: Q & A Volume 219
Wisdom of the Sages - April 20, 2024 13:38 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsIs dancing in your home as powerful as dancing in the temple?
1296: Lexus Today, Gremlin Tomorrow – Take Care Not to Devalue Anyone
Wisdom of the Sages - April 19, 2024 12:52 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsRaghunath’s dream instruction / definitions of humility / Kaustubha’s dream instruction / time changes everything - take care not to devalue or hurt anyone / the material world prunes our self image / Lexus today, Gremlin tomorrow / the challenge to the ego of shaving the head / advanced spiritu...
1295: The Shame in the Game of the Critic
Wisdom of the Sages - April 18, 2024 14:37 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 845 ratingsdon’t just be a critic - plant a seed in the ground - do something, no matter how small! / the shame in the game of the critic / the tension, the waiting period, the resolution / focus on growth in the waiting period / Sri Caitanya’s visit to Varanasi / humility through understanding one’s bliss...
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