1588: Divine Play: The Cosmic Purpose We’re Meant to Remember
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In our existence in this world, we carry the burdens of duty, judgment, and anger—and then we project them onto God. But reality? He’s just playing His flute, dancing, and inviting us back into a life of divine play (lila). In today’s Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha reveal a revolutionary truth rooted in the Upanishads, the Vedānta Sūtra, and the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: the Absolute Truth isn’t weighed down by judgment or duty—the Absolute’s only “business” is joyful līlā, or divine play.
So why all the suffering and conflict in this world?
We break down why Advaita Vedanta struggles to answer this—and how Bhakti Vedanta offers a beautiful, clear vision: the spiritual world is pure play, and the material world exists to help us remember how to “play nice” again.
Key Highlights:
* Why Ram, even when fighting Ravana, was just playing with His friends (yes, the monkeys 🐒).
* How the real nature of God isn’t the cosmic judge—but the cosmic dancer and lover.
* Why suffering doesn’t contradict divine play—it points us back to love.
* Vedānta’s ultimate secret: Creation exists solely for the joyful exchange of love.
* Is my irritable bowel syndrome really divine play?
* The Bhakti Vedanta advantage: a coherent, heart-transforming vision of the Absolute.
Rediscover the real purpose behind everything: love, joy, play—and the irresistible call of the divine flute.
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| 0:00.0 | He's traveling through India and taking in all the different spiritual teachings and seeing all these different presentations that grow out of the Vedic literature about who is the supreme or what is the supreme. |
| 0:11.0 | Is it an impersonal energy? Is it Shiva? |
| 0:15.0 | A lot of people, is it Kali, you know, Dorga? Is it, you know, is it Krishna? Is it all of them? And he landed on Krishna, right? |
| 0:25.7 | And someone once asked him, why Krishna? You know, you're being presented all these different |
| 0:30.6 | ideas and somehow you came to the idea that Krishna is the supreme, the absolute truth. |
| 0:36.6 | Anything else is, is an emanation from him, |
| 0:41.2 | is a creation of his manifestation of his energy. |
| 0:44.1 | But you're saying that Krishna is the origin, |
| 0:47.1 | the absolute truth, the origin of everything. |
| 0:49.9 | How did you come to that conclusion? |
| 0:51.4 | And his answer was a really interesting answer, right? |
| 0:55.1 | You know the answer? |
| 0:58.1 | Is this something like he's just playing? |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:01.3 | He's just playing on his flute, right? |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | Like if you were in charge of something, wouldn't that be what you were doing? |
| 1:07.2 | You'd be like outsourced everything to everybody else. |
| 1:10.2 | Right. |
| 1:10.4 | Even judgment. Yes, even judgment, right? Krishnaourced everything to everybody else? Even judgment. |
| 1:11.6 | Yes, even judgment, right? |
| 1:13.0 | Krishna doesn't have to be involved in judging us or, you know, he said, you know, |
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