1568: Reality Distorted Through the Lens of Attachment & Aversion
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Our perception of truth is rarely objective—it’s colored by what we crave and what we fear. In this eye-opening episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack a powerful quote from Carl Jung: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Paired with deep wisdom from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, they explore how our internal programming—our icchā (desires) and dveṣa (aversions)—create filters that distort our understanding of the world, ourselves, and God.
The episode takes a fascinating turn as the hosts recount the story of King Sagara’s sons, whose perception was so warped by anger and false assumptions that it led to their destruction. In contrast, a single grandson approaches with humility and clarity, revealing how higher consciousness means learning to see clearly—beyond the lens of the ego.
Key Highlights:
• How unconscious preferences distort spiritual understanding
• Krishna’s words on icchā and dveṣa in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.27)
• Why seeing the divine requires transcending the “box” we’ve built for truth
• The difference between living under illusion and recognizing Krishna’s hand in all things
• A reflection on how saints, mystics, and avatars may be walking among us unnoticed
This episode isn’t just theory—it’s a call to courageously examine the filters we carry and begin the inner work of uncovering truth as it is.
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| 0:57.4 | with our impressions and attachments and fears and all this. And these govern our lives without us |
| 1:05.8 | even realizing it, right? We have a whole inner world of attachment and aversion. And we see the world through it and we act through it. |
| 1:15.2 | And we just think, well, this is life. |
| 1:17.6 | Well, no, it's life as you perceive it through your colored mind. |
| 1:24.5 | You know. |
| 1:25.3 | There we go. |
| 1:26.5 | The Krishna in the Gita, there's that verse. |
| 1:31.1 | It's text 27, I think, from the seventh chapter. |
| 1:37.4 | What is that? |
| 1:38.9 | You know, each adreisha Samutana, that Krishna says, you know, all living entities are born into delusion, |
| 1:47.6 | bewildered by the dualities, arisen from Icha and Dwaysh, right, from your attachment and |
| 1:53.3 | your version, right? |
| 1:55.4 | We have a mind this program to say, I like this and I don't like that. |
| 1:58.7 | This is pleasant. |
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