1566: Reframing Mental Suffering Through Bhakti / Q & A Volume 267
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For some of us, it seems like the mind will never let us go. In this raw and deeply insightful Q&A episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha confront the complex intersection of trauma, depression, and the spiritual path. They unpack how the Bhakti tradition doesn’t promise a quick fix for erasing psychological suffering—but it radically reframes it. Drawing from the Bhagavad Gītā and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, they explain how the soul carries the subtle mind into the next life, how karma shapes mental struggles, and how deep devotional practice can burn through even the heaviest mental burdens.
Bhakti offers a transformative lens—a way to see the mind not as the self, but as an apparatus we carry on the soul’s long journey. For anyone dealing with mental health challenges, or supporting those who are, this episode offers real spiritual tools to face it, live with it, and grow beyond it.
Key Highlights:
• Why Bhakti might not quickly “fix” depression—but it can transform how we live with it
• How trauma and psychological pain may carry over from previous lifetimes
• The yogic technique that instantly reveals you are not your mind
• Raghunath shares candid reflections on fatherhood, heartbreak, and spiritual surrender
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Raganov, and I'm announcing our Super Soul Academy, 203-hour yoga teacher training. |
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| 0:30.8 | If you're a yoga teacher and you want to add Bhakti to your teaching, this is for you. |
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| 0:55.9 | faith in Bhakti. Strong faith in Krishna. And at the same time, I struggle with depression. |
| 1:03.4 | And I'm able to do exactly what I was speaking about before. I'm able to look at my mind |
| 1:08.4 | and realize that it's not me, that it's a dysfunctional machine |
| 1:13.4 | that I'm dragging around with me. |
| 1:14.8 | It's like a computer with a bunch of viruses on it that will continue to be like an object |
| 1:22.6 | of frustration for me. |
| 1:25.3 | But I'm, and so I do suffer from it. |
| 1:30.0 | But within me there's a deep conviction that that's my mind and it's a problem. |
| 1:34.6 | But that condition of suffering makes me turn to God within and pray with a deep sincerity |
| 1:43.9 | that, dear God, I've lost all hope that I'm going to find |
| 1:49.8 | happiness in this world without you. Look at me. I'm dragging around this terrible mind that's |
| 1:56.5 | prone to loops of depression and all that. And as as i try to shake it i can't shake it |
| 2:01.2 | you know and and if this is what it means that i live out this if due to my past deeds i'm |
| 2:07.1 | stuck with this mind and i'm going to live with this for the rest of my life i accept that i just want |
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