1585: Spiritual Insight vs Political Bias | Q&A Volume 272
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Are we interpreting politics through the lens of spiritual teachings - or are we interpreting spiritual teachings through the lens of our politics? How to respond when personal political opinions get imposed upon the spiritual discussions the we go to for enlightenment? In this dynamic Q&A episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha respond to pressing questions about navigating touchy topics in bhakti communities. They unpack the real meaning of seva when service feels more like a chore list, and dive into a fascinating discussion on the parallels between the Vedic Paramatma and the Christian Holy Ghost.
Key Highlights:
* How politics can sneak into spiritual discussions—and how to respond
* Are we viewing sacred texts through a clean lens—or a political filter?
* The art of doing real temple service (even when it’s scrubbing pots)
* Seeing Krishna in the messy, humble work that nobody else wants to do
* mapping the parallels & distinctions between Paramatma & Holy Ghost
In a world drowning in division, discover how true spiritual life calls us beyond party lines—into something deeper, sweeter, and eternal.
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| 0:00.0 | Within any Bhakti yoga community, there really needs to be like a center of it that is really focused about going into these texts and really understanding them, discussing them, you know? |
| 0:20.7 | Sure. |
| 0:21.3 | What is it? |
| 0:22.0 | What is it? |
| 0:23.1 | Machita, Malkata Prana, Bodhiantaparas, |
| 0:25.8 | Katiyan Tashamam, Nittiam, Tashyantichar, Ramanthich. |
| 0:28.7 | Krishna's talking about his devotees. |
| 0:29.7 | What are they doing? |
| 0:31.2 | They're talking about me. |
| 0:32.7 | They're enlightening one another by talking about me that is the that's that and the chanting of the holy names through |
| 0:38.5 | kirtan that is the main center focus of our practice and how we support one another and how we |
| 0:46.6 | enlighten one another and how we advance in bucktie that's that's what gives it life and the |
| 0:51.5 | stronger that is in a community, the stronger that community's |
| 0:55.0 | Buckti is going to be. And that's why we really need to honor those devotees that really have it |
| 1:00.2 | and can can speak from these chastras and make a little fire light up in us that we become |
| 1:09.0 | enthusiastic about it. and sometimes that uh the the purity of that |
| 1:17.0 | and the power of that becomes corrupted you could say in a sense and when i when i say corrupted i don't |
| 1:22.4 | mean to use to condemning of a word but corrupted in in the sense that this purity becomes compromised. |
| 1:34.8 | Because we speak about what we're into, rather than, we impose what we're into on top of the shastra rather than making the shastra |
| 1:46.4 | what we're into you know oh i like that or or or or or we we interpret the scripture |
| 1:55.8 | based on our mindset rather than being interpreting our mindset based on the scripture i like that because |
| 2:03.0 | you're hot today okay boom boom yeah so so when people like if the if they're getting real |
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