1582: Terminal Diagnosis, Timeless Devotion: A Yogi’s Final Chapter
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How do decades of spiritual practice shape your heart when death comes knocking? In this powerful episode, we hear from our longtime friend Yasso who, after forty years of devotion, is now facing terminal illness with stunning clarity and peace. What makes this conversation especially moving is how Yasso’s fearless, attitude of gratitude so closely mirrors the timeless wisdom of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, where the dying King Parīkṣit embraces his final days with devotion, humility, and total absorption in the divine.
Also in this episode: the epic homecoming of Lord Ram and the tear-jerking reunion with his brother Bharat, whose 14 years of radical simplicity (cow urine barley, anyone?) reflect the deepest brotherly devotion—zero envy, all love. And we also explore how devotional art can lift consciousness, using a vivid verse from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam as our canvas. This one goes deep—real life, real death, and real bhakti.
Key Highlights:
* A rare window into how a bhakti yogi prepares to leave this world
* Lord Ram returns to Ayodhya—no one has ever waved a chadar with more love
* No envy, no ego—just love: the bond between Ram and Bharat
* Why Krishna art > overpriced splatter art
* Chant Hare Krishna and don’t criticize. Boom. That’s it.
🎧 Tune in for sacred wisdom, raw honesty, and a few good laughs with Raghunath & Kaustubha.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm happier than I've ever been in my life. |
| 0:02.7 | No, just knowing it. |
| 0:04.3 | I get to, in Krishna, arranged, I have just enough to survive. |
| 0:07.4 | I can live very simply. |
| 0:09.7 | And the devotees give me this nice little comfortable apartment across the street. |
| 0:13.9 | I can leave my beadbag at home, go to the temple, come back and get my beadbag. |
| 0:18.9 | You know, it's, and there's probably a great way to wind this up is |
| 0:23.6 | no matter what happens within our life and sometimes we have so you've been dealt a lot of very |
| 0:30.3 | tough situations in your life and even within the last few years your own physical health you went |
| 0:36.0 | through a crazy health |
| 0:37.5 | reversal besides the cancer. And then you went, and then you had to bury your mother and your father |
| 0:44.2 | and who were, who were part of, in mimical, but caused you so much pain. And then you have to face |
| 0:53.3 | off with, I have to love these people that are unlovable. |
| 0:57.2 | And I think Krishna saw that devotion. |
| 1:01.7 | And he's put you in this very beautiful, safe place. |
| 1:05.0 | And whenever you add Krishna, no matter what you're going through, |
| 1:08.6 | it becomes very auspicious. |
| 1:10.3 | You're in a very auspicious |
| 1:11.0 | place. Some people have very fortunate lives, but they've never added Krishna. And because of it, |
| 1:17.9 | what does their, what does their, you know, final chapters look like? And so I'm really happy |
| 1:24.4 | to see you and reconnect with you. I don't feel poor Yaso. |
| 1:30.2 | I feel like... |
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