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Wisdom of the Sages

1479: Why Pray for the Benefit of Another Person? / Q & A Volume 254

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What is a Vaishnava? / Does it really make sense to pray for the benefit of another person, to an all knowing, all powerful God? / If someone gives you a lottery ticket is it still considered gambling?

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Raganath.

0:02.1

Join Wisdom of the Sages, 2025 in India.

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First, January 12th through the 24th, we have our Light on Wisdom training.

0:11.1

To study sacred literature, stories and tales from the sacred piranhas,

0:15.5

lots of heart-opening Kirtan, delicious Prashad, and cool people

0:20.8

with special guest Rodnawami and also special

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guest Jiva-G from Bhakti Recovery Group. It's three hours north of Mumbai at the awesome award-winning

0:30.9

Goverdan Eco Village. Then if you want to stay longer, there's the outrageous flower festival

0:36.5

at Rodna Swami's temple in Mumbai, and we leave

0:39.8

a day later for the Kirtan capital of the world on the banks of the river, Gunga, Shredaam

0:46.5

Mayapur. It's a gorgeous, spiritually surcharged, Krishna-conscious paradise, where we study the

0:53.7

life of Sri Chaitanya, the Kirtan Avatar.

0:56.7

We visit holy sites.

0:58.4

We eat delicious Bengali food and drinks and get our minds blown and our hearts burst open.

1:05.6

Go to Wisdom of the Sages.com, look on the left side of the screen, and scroll down to

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retreats.

1:12.2

We try to keep these affordable. Thank you for letting us serve you namaste right these these murals that are just like

1:17.3

they're so beautiful they're just hard to even take all in and i remember looking at a painting

1:25.9

of christna sitting on a branch of a tree having stolen the clothes

1:31.7

of the gopies and the gopies are down in the water and you look in Krishna's face of that

1:35.0

painting and somehow the artist at least for me was able to convey like who are you Krishna

1:42.0

like how do we understand?

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