1517: Territorialism & Its Spiritual Solution
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Modern psychology meets ancient wisdom in this thought-provoking episode of Wisdom of the Sages which asks, "Why do we cling to that which was never truly ours?" Join Raghunath and Kaustubha as they dive into intriguing parallels between the Ultimatum Game—a groundbreaking behavioral economics experiment—and the timeless teachings of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Explore how Bali Maharaja's surrender to Lord Vāmanadeva reveals the illusory nature of territorial attachments and provides a new perspective to see a deeper truth: nothing in this world truly belongs to us.
✨ Key Takeaways:
• What the Ultimatum Game teaches us about fairness, ego, and self-defeating decisions.
• Bali Maharaja's awe-inspiring vision of Lord Vishnu's universal form.
How spiritual wisdom can elevate our thinking and free us from endless conflict.
Kaustubha shares about the time he and his wife were turned away at a famous Temple in South India for not being born "Hindu".
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| 0:00.0 | Creating these turbo scenarios in your mind, who's out to get me or how things can go wrong. |
| 0:08.7 | And you're just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. |
| 0:10.8 | And there's actually no information. |
| 0:12.8 | It's your mind's just spinning out of control. |
| 0:14.8 | Sure. |
| 0:15.3 | And, you know, I don't know how much we can blame people for thinking that way, right? |
| 0:19.8 | Because they're almost hired to think like that. It's like prevented. They're trying to prevent some kind of disaster that they're convinced there's a good possibility that's going to happen. And I suppose it just shows it shows a lot about people and how we think. But it also just shows a lot about the nature of the world that we're living. |
| 0:39.2 | You know, that we're all in it and we're all afraid. |
| 0:42.9 | You know, we're all trying to maintain some kind of safety and territory for the ones that we love. |
| 0:50.1 | You know, but the way that the world works is very, unless there's some tremendous effort to elevate the level of our thinking, |
| 0:58.0 | then there's every possibility that is always going to devolve into conflict and even violent conflict and deadly conflict. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati, Vastewa, vasudevaea. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh, mano, baghavte, bashed by ya. |
| 1:19.6 | Come on! today by you. |
| 1:31.3 | Come on. |
| 1:39.3 | Live from the Goverdowne Eco Village, this is Wisdom of the Sage's, a daily spiritual podcast. With your host, Raganov, and co-host and senior educator at the Bakti Center, New York, |
| 1:44.0 | host, Stubidaz. |
| 1:45.0 | This is episode 1517, and today is January 14, 2025. |
| 1:50.5 | Oh, that's just in time. |
| 1:52.2 | Ooh. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm still running out my birthday week. |
| 1:54.9 | Trying to milk as whatever I can get out of this. |
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