1475: Balancing the Ideal & the Real
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Raghu's redecoration is a super high meditation / Kaustubha is not judging Raghunath / our challenge: to maintain the integrity of the tradition, while expressing it's vision in a way that responds to the needs of new situations / the Ganga Tilak Lady / the universal management teams / we're no spring chickens / Bali will become the new Indra! / we can't even imagine the opulence of higher planets / we've ruined this planet for no good reason / Krishna assumes the form of great yogis / The problem with the mode of goodness is you get a little proud
SB 8.13.1-14.11
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| 1:12.2 | We try to keep these affordable. Thank you for letting us serve you namaste you know there is like this ideal vatic culture and |
| 1:18.6 | sometimes you'll get like a a swami or a preacher speaking like we've got to get back to the gold |
| 1:23.7 | standard of vatic culture and you're trying to like, almost like recreate it in, it's in. |
| 1:30.2 | And you want it precisely like it was thousands of years ago. |
| 1:35.3 | And another angle is like, well, you might also have to accept what's ideal and also what's real. |
| 1:43.0 | And if you're actually trying to encourage people on this process, |
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