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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Raghunath and Kaustubha dive into the comical yet piercingly honest downfall of King Yayāti and explore how the ancient Vedic culture didn’t just shame desire—it organized it, regulated it, and ultimately helped one transcended it. Drawing from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, we uncover how real evolution begins not by denying our lower nature, but by accepting the guidance of wisdom tradition that helps us see through it.
Key Highlights:
• Why the world makes you foolish when you chase desire
The brilliance of varṇāśrama: not a box, but a ladder
Why trying to be Krishna never works
• Young Puru’s ultimate mic drop moment of detachment and devotion
• Plus: How a hardcore cookbook made its way onto the show (Walk-On Wednesday… on a Friday)
• And, Raghunath’s high school brawl over a mustached senior (seriously)
🎧 Listen in and laugh your way through lust, curses, wisdom, and the yogic path of real freedom.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Raganov, and I'm announcing our Super Soul Academy, 203-hour yoga teacher training. |
0:08.4 | We call it the Bhakti yoga cultural immersion, and we've been doing it for 10 years. |
0:14.7 | And it's hosted at the beautiful Goverdowne Eco Village with Ragnaswami and all the monks. |
0:19.5 | What a backdrop for transformation. |
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0:30.8 | If you're a yoga teacher and you want to add Bhakti to your teaching, this is for you. |
0:36.1 | Go to my website, 300 hour. This is for you. Have a great day. Krishna has the capacity that we all wish that we had. |
0:57.3 | We want to love everyone. To be able to love everyone. I want everyone to love me. I want everyone |
1:01.6 | to satisfy me. Yeah. She's beautiful, but I also want her. And I also want her. And I also and so my desire, just kidding, by the way, I do not want any of them. |
1:11.4 | None of them. |
1:12.3 | But, but, um, but we try to expand ourselves and be like Krishna as we move through this world. |
1:19.4 | But what we find is that here's even Yiyati, he was like powerful, right? |
1:24.3 | He was a king. |
1:25.1 | So he had resources like we don't have. |
1:41.3 | But still, once he tried to expand to essentially two wives, the whole world moved in such a way where it said, you don't have that ability. You don't have that ability. The more you pursue the desire to be Krishna. To be Krishna, the more the world is going to reveal that you're not. |
1:45.2 | Nice way to put it. |
1:51.6 | And the problem is good karma, like being a king, being attractive, having lots of resources, |
1:54.8 | having lots of fame and get validation. |
1:58.7 | That's like, well, maybe I am the center of the universe. |
2:00.8 | All these other people look up to me. |
2:01.9 | They think I'm important. |
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