1569: Are We Seeking Truth or Emotional Comfort?
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Discover how modern psychology’s insights into motivated reasoning and confirmation bias align with ancient yogic teachings on how desire and attachment distort our perception of truth. In this eye-opening episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how both science and the Bhakti tradition describe the mind’s tendency to protect its illusions rather than seek reality. Drawing from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, they unpack why truth feels so elusive, how even scholars and scientist can be blinded by comfort zones, and why the Bhāgavatam’s vision of Krishna as the personal Absolute is the ultimate disruption to the ego’s false narratives.
🔥 Key Takeaways:
• Your mind isn’t always seeking truth—it’s seeking emotional safety.
• Vedānta through the lens of Bhāgavatam reveals a spiritual evolution that challenges impersonalism.
• Why we may cling to comforting spiritual philosophies—even when they contradict the sacred texts.
• How the modes of material nature (guṇas) influence our worldviews, preferences.
• The difference between subjective attraction and ontological truth in the path of bhakti.
If you’ve ever wondered why intelligent people believe completely different things—even when reading the same sacred texts—this episode will open your eyes to the filters between the self and the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Namaste everybody, it's Raganath, and I want to announce my autumn pilgrimage 2025 to sacred India. |
| 0:08.6 | Tons of Kirtan, tons of Bhakti. |
| 0:11.1 | It is my great passion and pleasure to take people to sacred cities, sacred rivers, sacred people, |
| 0:18.8 | and of course, amazing vegetarian and vegan food prepared with love. |
| 0:25.2 | If India's been calling you, this could be the trip. |
| 0:28.6 | Go to my website, ragunov.orgia.orgia,000-J-N-A-T-H-U-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-H-D-H-D-H-D-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-E-H-E-T-H-E-V-E-L-E-B-E-E-L-E-B-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-R-E right i'm not comfortable with that message i you know i i'm very uncomfortable with the idea that |
| 0:55.6 | there's a person personal relationship yeah i exactly i'm very uncomfortable with the idea that |
| 1:00.2 | ontologically there's a person that's superior to me eternally that i'm dependent on i don't like that |
| 1:05.3 | idea if i don't like that idea then god is a non-personal energy will be much more appealing |
| 1:10.7 | and the |
| 1:11.2 | consciousness would be more appealing. |
| 1:12.7 | I like to be self-employed. |
| 1:14.2 | I don't want to be working for somebody else. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.3 | So that's part of why I thought this was an important topic because motivated reasoning |
| 1:24.0 | and confirmation bias can play out in our interpretation of these texts, in our interpretation |
| 1:30.3 | of how we interpret the universe or what messages we derive from the universe. |
| 1:36.3 | You know, |
| 1:37.3 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaeer. Baja Baja Baja Baja Baja Baja Baja Baja Baja Baja. Come on. |
| 2:03.3 | Live from Super Soul Farm, this is Wisdom of the Sages, |
| 2:06.8 | daily spiritual podcast with your host, Raganov, |
| 2:09.4 | and co-host and senior educator of the Bokti Center in New York City. |
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