1578: Fear of Loss is a Path to the Dark Side
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Loss comes for everyone—but the Bhakti yogi faces it not with fear, but with training, trust, and transcendence. In this powerful episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack how the wisdom of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam prepares us for the moments that shake our identity, strip our attachments, and invite us into deeper surrender. From philosophical insight to real-life stories, they reveal how detachment isn’t cold or passive—it’s the soul’s doorway to freedom.
Key Highlights:
* “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” — Yoda (Bhakti approves.)
* Why loss is not punishment—but a spiritual upgrade in disguise.
* Chest-waxing and ego-stripping: a painful but necessary metaphor for spiritual growth.
* The man who thought his wealth could buy him a free pass at the barber shop—and what that reveals about false identity.
* What it means to live as if nothing is yours, and love as if everything is.
* The yogi’s mindset: clarity in chaos, faith in the face of death.
🎧 Tune in now and discover how the Bhakti tradition reframes loss as grace, grief as growth, and endings as the beginning of true connection.
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| 0:00.0 | Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. |
| 0:06.5 | What a powerful. |
| 0:08.6 | Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. |
| 0:11.2 | That's it. |
| 0:12.0 | For a devotee, you don't lose anything. |
| 0:16.0 | It's like the guy at the bank accepting the money to put the money in the bank. |
| 0:20.6 | He's not feeling like oh |
| 0:22.6 | i just handed me a million dollars i didn't he didn't lose a million dollars he's |
| 0:27.5 | understanding i'm just taking this money from this man and giving it to the bank he never lost |
| 0:32.3 | anything right the same way when we're in full consciousness that i don't own anything, and I make that a part of my mental, you know, loops in my mind of self-talk. |
| 0:46.5 | Instead of the self-talk, how can I get that? |
| 0:49.0 | How can I acquire that? |
| 0:50.2 | Oh, this is mine. |
| 0:51.1 | What's going to happen to my kid, my wife, my home, my car, my occupation. |
| 0:57.4 | These are all things we say this thing like, I'm not this body. |
| 1:02.0 | But to really understand that, we have to understand the accoutrements of the body that we are so damn attached to. |
| 1:10.8 | And if we don't understand that it's not ours, |
| 1:14.8 | then I'm setting up for the very, very visceral pain |
| 1:18.8 | of it getting ripped out of my hands, |
| 1:21.6 | at one point or another, maybe even before death. |
| 1:25.7 | Oh, now, Bhagavati, Vasudevaeaheah. even before death. live live live |
| 1:46.0 | live |
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