1575: Please Don’t Feed the Demons: Ramayana & Our Own Hero’s Journey

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hardcore, Yoga, Dharma, Kaustubhadas, Bhakti, Srimadbhagavatam, Wisdom, Bhagavadgita, Hinduism, Raghunath, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Punk, Raycappo

5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Every life holds a hidden epic. In this stirring episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha unlock the timeless teachings of the Ramayana and the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam to reveal how Lord Ram’s divine story is far more than mythology—it’s a living guide for our own transformation. Alongside the insights of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, the sages explore what it truly means to conquer inner demons and rise to the occasion of your own sacred adventure.

But this episode goes deeper than just inspiration. It offers a bold clarification of what līlā truly is—and what it’s not. It’s a common spiritual misstep to view the pain, confusion, and trauma of material life as brahman engaged in “divine play,” mistaking our suffering for the līlā of the Supreme. Raghunath and Kaustubha draw a clear line: true līlā is not the fractured experience of conditioned life, but the ecstatic, conscious, and love-saturated interactions of Krishna with His eternal energies—Ram and Sita, Radha and Krishna, Lakshman, Hanuman, and the gopīs, etc. To conflate the two is to miss the sweetness of bhakti, to remain trapped in illusion, and to miss the opportunity to enter into eternal līlā—the highest potential of the self.

Key Highlights:
* Why the Ramayana is more than story—it’s a training ground for the soul
* The crucial difference between true līlā and conditioned suffering
* Why Lord Ram left without resentment—and how we can too
* How to starve the inner Ravana and awaken your inner Hanuman
* What it really means to return from the forest with “boons” for the world

Join us and rediscover your highest potential—not by pretending to be the hero, but by walking the sacred path of one who’s learning how to love.

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0:00.0	So we all need to go on that journey in some way.
0:02.7	And it may not be exactly like, you know, a story like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or the Romina.
0:12.6	It may not involve that kind of battle.
0:15.6	But it is a fact that we all, we all need some battle in our life.
0:21.6	We all need some adventure.
0:23.4	We all need some hero's journey, even if it's just in the context of raising our family
0:28.4	or how we act in the field of our occupation.
0:32.5	But we are meant to face something dark and win a victory over it and come back from that adventure with the power to bestow boons.
0:48.3	You know, and so how are we doing that in our life?
0:51.3	You know, like, you know, it can be as something as simple as I'm going to work today, you know, and there's a lot of, I'm going to be, you know, interacting with all kinds of people, you know, on my way to work, when I'm at work and so on. How do I want to respond to that challenge? Some people are going to be friendly and some people are going to be rude and some people are going to be demanding reasonably and some people are going to be
1:14.9	demanding unreasonably. And will I be controlled by those forces or can I choose how I want to
1:22.3	respond to them as a yogi, as a Bhakti yogii in such a way where I grow
1:28.7	and I come back
1:30.6	having grown and able to
1:33.3	offer boons as you're saying like in
1:35.2	the form of wisdom or
1:36.9	just in the form of how I live my life
1:38.9	and what I'm able to exemplify and share
1:41.2	Oh no
1:43.3	Bhagavati Vasudevaeaheah exemplify and share. Live from the Swaybaughia.
2:06.6	Come on. Live from Swinfert, Germany, this is Wisdom in the Sage as a daily spiritual podcast.
2:11.6	With your host, Raghanov and co-host and senior educator at the Bokty Center in New York.
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