1584: Does the Hunger for Power Disqualify One From Holding It?
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What does it means to lead without ego, serve without exploitation, and rule with spiritual detachment? In this episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha dive into the extraordinary standard set by Lord Ramachandra, whose rule began not with conquest but with renunciation.
The conversation also takes a deeper look at the controversial episode of Sita’s banishment though the eyes of the sages (as opposed to the lens of ones’s own painful divorce). When seen with spiritual clarity, the pain of separation transforms into an expression of divine love, where Ram and Sita’s apparent distance reveals the depth of their unbreakable connection.
Key Highlights:
* How Ram’s leadership flips modern politics on its head
* Sages with melted hearts receive the supreme gift - inner illumination
* Sita’s banishment—and why comparing it to your messy breakup doesn’t quite work
* What Jay Shetty, and Douglas Adams and Socrates have to do with karma yoga
* Abraham Lincolns touching letter about losing a loved one
* Bhakti as the “Platinum Package” of yoga paths (yes, karma and jñāna are included)
* How Sita Sings the Blues delights, but disappoints
🎧 Tune in for sacred stories, sharp insight, and plenty of laughs.
🌟 Subscribe and join the global bhakti movement.
#LordRam #SpiritualLeadership #BhaktiYoga #SitaAndRam #KarmaYoga #WisdomOfTheSages #Ramayana #DharmaAndDetachment #PlatinumBhaktiBundle #SrimadBhagavatam
*********************************************************************
LOVE THE PODCAST?
WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com
WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages
LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485
CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108
CONNECT ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wisdom_of_the_sages
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | whether it's a leader of a nation or on any level, you know, that we have responsibility. |
| 0:07.0 | We're meant to kind of learn this, this, this is called karma yoga, right? |
| 0:10.7 | That I do it without trying to extract something for myself. |
| 0:17.1 | I do it because it's meant to be done because it's right, because it's Dharma. |
| 0:21.4 | And I'm not trying to, you know, everyone needs a minimal, you know, what they need to get by. |
| 0:29.2 | And particularly the teachers, you know, there the idea was that a teacher has to demonstrate renunciation before they can teach. |
| 0:38.0 | Right? |
| 0:42.5 | It's like if you live the right lifestyle, then we'll sit down and we'll hear from you. |
| 0:44.1 | Then you can take the role of professor. |
| 0:47.9 | Then you can take the role of priests, you know, speaking from the pulpit. |
| 0:56.4 | But without you're demonstrating that you've got wisdom that's that's manifest through your simplicity through your contentment why should we be listening to you that that idea was there in the in the |
| 1:03.5 | vedic uh the vedic paradigm you know oh no baghabetha ba'hs Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:19.6 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah! |
| 1:26.6 | Oh, come on! Las today by you. |
| 1:31.7 | Come on. |
| 1:34.3 | Live from Super Soul Farm, |
| 1:35.4 | this is Wisdom of the Sage is a daily spiritual podcast |
| 1:36.6 | with your host, |
| 1:37.4 | Raghanaith, |
| 1:38.2 | and co-host and senior educator |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Ramella, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of David Ramella and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.