1591: What's Good? What's Bad? (And How Our Minds are Lying to Us)
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Prince Hamlet collides with Śrīmad Bhāgavatam in this mind-bending episode on the illusion of “good and bad.” Raghunath and Kaustubha explore Bhakti Yoga, mental programming, and the transformative power of staying steady amid life’s chaos. They unpack a verse that flips the spiritual script: liberation doesn’t require a cave—it requires clarity. With vegan cheesecake hangovers, Tom Sawyer tricks, and a dose of Shakespearean angst, this episode reveals how kings lived as yogis—and how your own messy, modern life can become sacred ground for spiritual evolution.
Key Highlights:
• “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — Hamlet (and basically the Bhāgavatam too)
• Why your mind is a meaning-making machine—and how that distorts reality
• Eastern philosophy says good and bad are illusions—here’s what that really means
• The Bhagavad-gītā’s bold message: you can transcend duality without renouncing your responsibilities
• How tolerance is the first quality of a true sadhu or yogi
• Why red isn’t good, blue isn’t bad, and Denmark is just a mindset
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Namaste everybody, it's Raganath, and I want to announce my autumn pilgrimage 2025 to sacred India. |
| 0:08.6 | Tons of Kirtan, tons of Bhakti. |
| 0:11.1 | It is my great passion and pleasure to take people to sacred cities, sacred rivers, sacred people, |
| 0:18.8 | and of course, amazing vegetarian and vegan food prepared with love. |
| 0:25.2 | If India's been calling you, this could be the trip. |
| 0:28.6 | Go to my website, ragunov.orgia.orgia,000-J-N-A-T-H-U-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-H-D-H-E-H-D-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-E-H-E-T-E-H-E-L-E-E-T-E-E-L-E-E-L-E-E-E-L-E-E-E-L-E-E-E-L-E-E-E-L-E He says, there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. |
| 0:56.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:56.9 | That's a pretty wild statement. |
| 0:58.5 | It makes you stop and wonder, is there actually good and bad? |
| 1:02.2 | Are they, is it real? |
| 1:04.5 | Or have we just, do we just have this meaning making machine in our mind that says, we're going to call this good |
| 1:12.9 | today. We're going to call this bad today. Is there good or bad in this world, or is everything, |
| 1:19.2 | as Prabapod, Prabupon says this very beautifully. He calls it, or is it just a mental concoction? |
| 1:28.6 | Oh, now, Bhagavati, Vasudeva,ia. |
| 1:34.6 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:40.2 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati Vasudeva. |
| 1:45.0 | Bye. |
| 1:49.5 | Live from Super Soul Farm, this is Wisdom of the Sage, is a daily spiritual podcast with |
| 1:58.4 | your host, Raghana, and co-host and senior educator at the |
| 2:01.4 | Bokti Center in New York City, co-stubidas. Welcome to the show. It's Friday, May 2nd, 2025. |
| 2:09.5 | This is episode 1591. Welcome to the show. Good morning, everybody. I'm feeling a little hungover. |
| 2:21.2 | We had a special Mara feast last night. Mara hit it out of the park yesterday. We had a really |
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