1555: The Mind Body Connection / Q & A Volume 265
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The mind affects the body, the body affects the mind—but what does the bhakti tradition say about the mind-body connection? In this Q & A episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack the deeper yogic wisdom behind this popular concept. Are we trying to unite the mind and body, or transcend them both? And how does our environment, our food, and even our relationships shape our consciousness?
Key Topics Discussed:
• The real meaning of “mind-body connection” in yoga philosophy
• How intelligence, mind, and senses interact in our daily lives
• The role of asana, pranayama, and diet in shaping the mind
• Can food affect our consciousness? The significance of prasadam
• Raising children in bhakti: creating a spiritually nourishing home
• Does Krishna accept any offering? The role of devotion in food preparation
Join us as we explore the bhakti perspective on refining the mind, uplifting the spirit, and creating a life centered on devotion.
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| 0:00.0 | Because yoga is all about the mind, right? |
| 0:03.0 | Once you understand this, you understand a lot about yoga. |
| 0:07.0 | The idea is we have a true nature, the self, underneath the body, underneath the mind, there's the soul, the self, and that soul has its |
| 0:15.0 | eternal nature, you know, eternal, full of knowledge, full of bliss. |
| 0:20.0 | And we're out of touch with that. |
| 0:21.9 | And so we're living within the mind. |
| 0:23.8 | We identify with the mind. |
| 0:25.1 | Our thoughts and our opinions and our feelings, our emotions, we think that's me. |
| 0:29.7 | When really, no, that's just an external instrument that's going through all these changes. |
| 0:34.6 | And you're looking at it. |
| 0:35.6 | It's like when you're in a movie theater and you're looking at what's going on in the movie screen, |
| 0:39.7 | and then you begin to get absorbed in it. |
| 0:41.8 | At a certain point, you're no longer just like a person observing the movie, but you're caught up in the movie. |
| 0:48.3 | And so you're crying, you're laughing according to what's happening. |
| 0:51.0 | But nothing's happening except like light is being shined on a screen, |
| 0:56.7 | but you kind of get lost in it, and you can forget that I'm sitting in a movie theater. |
| 1:02.4 | You can cease to feel like the observer, and you feel like you're in it. |
| 1:07.4 | And that's what we do, looking at the mind. |
| 1:09.3 | The self is looking at the mind. |
| 1:13.0 | The yogi's trying to say, you're not the mind. Separate. Look at it like an observer. See, oh, it's happy. It's not I'm |
| 1:19.4 | happy right now. My mind is happy right now. It's not that I'm depressed right now. My mind's |
| 1:25.5 | depressed right now. And so we separate the self from the mind. |
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