1574: How Yogis Train the Mind for the Ultimate Test
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
“You Won’t Rise to the Occasion—You’ll Default to Your Training”. In this episode we explore how ancient yogic wisdom aligns with the discipline of elite athletes, soldiers, and spiritual seekers. Learn how the mind, when trained in remembrance and devotion, naturally turns toward the Divine—even at the moment of death. This episode is a clarion call to train your heart, shape your consciousness, and live with purpose so that when the test comes, you’re not grasping for last-minute wisdom—you’re simply doing what you’ve always done: remembering who you’ve been meditating on all along. Drawing from the timeless teachings of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Kaustubha, and special guest Kishori Gopi dive deep into the life of King Katvanga, a warrior-king who turned his final moment into his finest moment—not by chance, but by a lifetime of conscious preparation.
Key Highlights:
* “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail”—why your daily practice shapes your destiny
* What King Katvanga teaches us about detachment, clarity, and the power of a single moment
* How to build your spiritual default setting through consistent sādhanā
* The Bhagavad-gītā’s teaching on death, remembrance, and ultimate transformation
* Why even the devas admired a king who asked for no boon but truth
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| 0:00.0 | well, you know, you just do what you're trained to do. |
| 0:03.4 | You know, it's like you get all this training and then you're put to the test |
| 0:07.0 | and then you do what you're trained to do. |
| 0:10.7 | And so a yogi should think like this, you know, a yogi should think that, you know, |
| 0:16.8 | what am I training my mind for today? |
| 0:19.8 | You know, if this were my last moment where |
| 0:23.1 | where where would my thoughts naturally go you know um a lot of times i think people ask you know |
| 0:30.2 | the they they they ask themselves you know like how will i die um but the real question we |
| 0:36.4 | should be asking yourself is you know know, what am I training, |
| 0:40.6 | how am I training myself for that moment in my daily thoughts, in my daily actions, you know, |
| 0:48.3 | I know that that day may come and it may be, you know, years from or or maybe tomorrow um i can't count that i'm just |
| 0:58.7 | going to rise to that occasion without training for it you know more likely i'll default to my training |
| 1:04.5 | and if that training includes devotion and clear discernment and having a heart that's always kind of connected to God, |
| 1:14.6 | then that last moment can be our, you know, can be the finest moment, you know, perfect moment, |
| 1:19.9 | beautiful moment. |
| 1:20.5 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vastewa, Aya. Oh, no, Bhagavati,udevaya Oh, Namo |
| 1:29.5 | Bhagavati |
| 1:31.0 | Basu Debaea |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, Nama |
| 1:35.4 | Bhagavati |
| 1:36.8 | Basu Debaea |
| 1:38.8 | Bahsaid byia |
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