1551: Checking Your Ego at the Door to Bhakti
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
When resentment takes root, it poisons everything—including your spiritual path. In this no-holds-barred episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha tackle one of the greatest barriers to real devotion: pettiness. Drawing from the teachings of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they explore how holding onto grudges, finding fault, and harboring resentment can push you out of the sacred circle of bhakti—while humility, forgiveness, and self-reflection open the door to Krishna’s pastimes.
Hear about Maharaja Ambarish’s unshakable faith, the mystic Durvasa Muni’s epic downfall, and why Prabhupāda emphasized letting go of resentment as the secret to staying strong in spiritual life. If you want to enter the 10th Canto—the heart of bhakti—you have to check your ego at the door.
Key Takeaways:
🔥 How petty arguments and grudges sabotage your spiritual progress
🔥 Why the devotees who last are the ones who let go of resentment
🔥 The fastest way to wreck your bhakti
🔥 Lessons from Rupa Goswami, Ambarish Maharaja, and the streets of India
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| 0:00.0 | Once you've entered the circle of spiritual life, there's like a protective thing around us. |
| 0:06.7 | Krishna's divine energy, which is very subtle, brings you closer and closer and closer. |
| 0:12.0 | But once you don't go with that flow anymore, once you lose the humility, you start finding |
| 0:18.1 | fault with people, Krishna kicks you out of the circle. |
| 0:21.4 | And he gives you an excuse. |
| 0:22.7 | Maya covers you and gives you an excuse for being out of that circle. |
| 0:26.5 | Oh, those devotees, they were narrow-minded or they were too fanatical or they, right, |
| 0:32.3 | they come up with a thousand different excuses. |
| 0:34.8 | Uh-uh. |
| 0:35.4 | You are personally kicked out by Lord Krishna, outside of the circle. |
| 0:40.5 | And when you want to come back inside the circle, it's got to become in a type of humility. |
| 0:46.3 | And unless you have that, because you can't approach God without that deep humility, period. |
| 0:51.3 | You can't approach God without deep humility. |
| 0:53.4 | You have to shed that arrogance to let you in. |
| 0:57.0 | And once I get a little arrogant and start finding fault with everybody else, out of the circle. |
| 1:01.7 | You get out of that circle. |
| 1:03.3 | You get out of that circle. |
| 1:04.3 | Oh, no, baghabeti, vassehbaea. live bygabate vast day ba'am |
| 1:12.6 | oh no |
| 1:13.6 | baghati |
| 1:14.6 | bas-de-ba-a-ba-a-ha-ha-ha |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, |
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