5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Can water actually wash away your karma? For thousands of years, pilgrims have journeyed to the Ganges River with unwavering faith that her sacred waters can liberate the soul. But where does that power come from? And why is it believed that even the most sinful acts can be purified through a simple bath in her current?
In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore the profound story of King Bhagirath and the descent of the Ganga, as told in the pages of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Together, they unpack ancient insights into how grace flows through sacred elements, and how divine consciousness transforms even the physical elements of this world.
Key Highlights:
• Why Bhagirath’s mission to bring down the Ganges spanned generations
• The deep Vedic symbolism of “lotus feet” and approaching the divine from the ground up
• Ganga’s own doubts—can she handle the sins of the world?
• What makes something sacred in bhakti: form, faith, or transcendental connection?
Get ready to rethink what it means to be purified, and how spiritual energy can travel through water, sound, and intention to change the destiny of a soul.
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0:00.0 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
0:07.0 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaya. |
0:13.0 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
0:19.0 | Come on! Mas today by you. |
0:28.3 | Live from Super Soul Farm, this is Wisdom of the Sage. |
0:30.7 | It's a daily spiritual podcast with your host, Rakhina, |
0:33.9 | and co-host and senior educator at the Bokhti Center in New York. |
0:34.8 | Kustubidas. |
0:37.9 | This is episode 1570. |
0:41.0 | It's Tuesday, April 2nd, 2025. |
0:43.4 | Welcome to the show. |
0:45.1 | Woo! |
0:52.6 | Here with Ms. Mera and Kostuba, and Ms. Mera has, she's got some headgear on today. |
0:54.8 | So she's trying to hide off camera. |
0:56.7 | Maybe sneak your face in just one shot. |
0:58.0 | There you go. |
0:59.2 | She looks great. |
1:00.3 | She looks great. |
1:03.1 | She looks like the adorable bride of Frankenstein. |
1:06.1 | I thought she looked like Mother Teresa. |
1:07.4 | Mother Teresa. |
1:10.1 | Well, she was no looker. Herself, Mother Teresa. |
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