1595: Puranic Mean Girls & Pascal's Take on Our Inner Emptiness
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Gatorade-stained beard? Check. All-night emergency room visit? Check. Spiritual wake-up call in aisle 12? Double check. But behind Raghunath’s dizzy spell and collapse on the floor of Home Depot lies a far more universal theme: our desperate urge to avoid silence, stillness, and the terrifying weight of our own inner emptiness.
Drawing from Blaise Pascal’s haunting insight—that “all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”—Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how distraction and diversion keep us from doing the inner work that leads to peace, purpose, and awakening.
Also: a peaceful garden walk devolves into a warrior princess throw-down.
Key Highlights:
• Is that spiritual ecstasy… or dangerously low blood sugar?
• Why we flee silence—and how it sabotages our spiritual evolution
• Pascal meets the Bhāgavatam: diversion as the disease of our age
• When status, envy, and petty revenge collide—ancient wisdom, high-school drama
• Level up before the universe has to shove you down
🎧 Listen now and reflect on what’s really keeping you from peace—before your next wake-up call comes in the plumbing aisle.
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| 0:00.0 | we we may try to avoid that existential truth how mortal how vulnerable how dependent we are |
| 0:09.1 | but it's going to pop up eventually so like you find you find yourself sitting there on the |
| 0:15.0 | floor of the Home Depot realizing look how vulnerable I am right my body just like, can just let me down at any moment. |
| 0:22.6 | Any moment. |
| 0:23.6 | And it will happen. |
| 0:25.6 | You know, it will happen. |
| 0:26.6 | We don't want to face that. |
| 0:27.6 | You know, Pascal, he also, he had a more famous quote from that book, |
| 0:31.6 | which is all of humanity's problems stem from, |
| 0:36.6 | stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone right |
| 0:41.2 | to who i like that one i like that one yeah in other words yeah if we could sit quietly in a room |
| 0:49.1 | alone then we might actually you know turn off all the distractions and begin to feel who we are |
| 0:57.8 | and where we are and what our situation is. And hopefully it goes still deeper. You know, this is what |
| 1:03.7 | I assume, you know, what these Vipasana meditation retreats are all about, where you have to, for 10 |
| 1:09.5 | days, you don't talk you you know you |
| 1:11.5 | sit alone all day you know we people are you know afraid of doing that and um you went so we've |
| 1:20.0 | we get these um we distract ourselves in so many ways and and and but the programming within the |
| 1:26.9 | universe right is that if we choose, we can choose |
| 1:30.2 | to do that. |
| 1:30.9 | We can choose, you know what, I'm not going to look within. |
| 1:33.7 | I'm going to distract myself. |
| 1:35.5 | It's a little too serious. |
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